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Vercel MCP now supports the 2026-07-28 MCP specification

Vercel MCP now serves the 2026-07-28 and 2025 protocols from one endpoint, letting newer clients adopt stateless requests and revised authorization without breaking older setups.

Vercel · Jul 31, 2026
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Vercel MCP supports the **2026-07-28 specification**, including a stateless request model and updated authorization behavior. Clients that understand it adopt it automatically, while **2025 protocol** clients continue unchanged.

Practical Implication

Keep the existing endpoint and setup. A single connection handles both versions through **MCP SDK v2** and mcp-handler 2.x, reducing the need for version-specific server configuration.

Agent-Ready Context
Vercel MCP supports the **2026-07-28 specification**, including a stateless request model and updated authorization behavior. Clients that understand it adopt it automatically, while **2025 protocol** clients continue unchanged.

Keep the existing endpoint and setup. A single connection handles both versions through **MCP SDK v2** and mcp-handler 2.x, reducing the need for version-specific server configuration.

The material names the protocol changes but does not detail their operational consequences. Builders should review the specification changelog before relying on new authorization or stateless behavior in custom clients.
Connected Context · Feed7 Judgment

This confirms that Vercel's hosted MCP endpoint has crossed the same stateless SDK v2 boundary as mcp-handler while preserving 2025 clients on one connection. It reduces server-side version branching, but does not establish that custom clients can safely rely on the new authorization or stateless semantics without reading the specification and testing their own lifecycle assumptions.

Latest MCP spec now supported in mcp-handlerThis is the direct implementation prerequisite: mcp-handler 2.x and SDK v2 enable the dual-version endpoint, while its Node, schema, and transport requirements define upgrade constraints omitted from the target brief.MCP Tasks (async): Why Aren't Any Agents Supporting Them? — Cornelia Davis, TemporalThe move toward stateless requests aligns with the proposed session-light MCP Tasks direction, but durable long-running work still carries unresolved persistence, polling, cancellation, and recovery obligations.Agent Runs now available in the Vercel MCP and CLIAgent Runs is a concrete MCP capability that benefits from retained endpoint compatibility, while clients adopting the newer protocol must still validate authorization and stateless behavior around that tool access.
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Uncertainty
The material names the protocol changes but does not detail their operational consequences. Builders should review the specification changelog before relying on new authorization or stateless behavior in custom clients.