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  "type": "topic_hub",
  "slug": "mcp",
  "title": "MCP - New Runtime",
  "description": "A New Runtime topic hub collecting signals, patterns, field notes, and public sources about mcp.",
  "answer": [
    "MCP is tracked here as an evidence-linked topic, not as a static glossary entry.",
    "The page connects raw observations to pattern hypotheses, longer analysis, and public sources.",
    "Use it as the canonical landing page before drilling into individual records."
  ],
  "search_intents": [
    "mcp",
    "mcp AI agents",
    "mcp software"
  ],
  "status": "tracked",
  "last_updated": "2026-07-21",
  "counts": {
    "total": 7,
    "signals": 4,
    "patterns": 0,
    "posts": 1,
    "atlas": 2,
    "sources": 10
  },
  "routes": {
    "html": "https://newruntime.com/topics/mcp/",
    "markdown": "https://newruntime.com/topics/mcp.md",
    "json": "https://newruntime.com/topics/mcp.json"
  },
  "top_sources": [
    "https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode-mcp",
    "https://github.com/langchain-ai/agent-protocol",
    "https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent",
    "https://huggingface.co/",
    "https://huggingface.co/blog/agentic-resource-discovery-launch",
    "https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/search",
    "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/architecture",
    "https://unabyss.com/",
    "https://www.producthunt.com/products/unabyss",
    "https://youtube.com/watch?v=n9j4SaF37V0"
  ],
  "patterns": [],
  "field_notes": [
    {
      "kind": "Field Note",
      "slug": "unabyss-shared-context-layer",
      "title": "Unabyss Builds a Shared Context Layer Across Claude, Codex, and Cursor",
      "description": "Unabyss points to where agent tooling is going: context stops being one client's internal memory and becomes a separate product layer with governance and portability.",
      "date": "2026-07-21",
      "topics": [
        "context-engineering",
        "mcp",
        "agent-tools"
      ],
      "source_count": 2,
      "url": "https://newruntime.com/posts/unabyss-shared-context-layer/"
    }
  ],
  "raw_signals": [
    {
      "kind": "Raw Signal",
      "slug": "local-agent-is-a-runtime-not-one-model",
      "title": "A local agent is a runtime, not one model",
      "description": "A local agent stack combines models, orchestration, memory, skills, MCP tools, permissions, judges, and output guards.",
      "date": "2026-07-15",
      "topics": [
        "local-agents",
        "harness-engineering",
        "mcp",
        "agent-ops"
      ],
      "source_count": 2,
      "metric": "notable",
      "url": "https://newruntime.com/signals/local-agent-is-a-runtime-not-one-model/"
    },
    {
      "kind": "Raw Signal",
      "slug": "uber-platform-for-thousands-of-agents",
      "title": "Uber built a platform layer for thousands of agents",
      "description": "Uber's internal approach focuses on common protocols, evaluation, identity, observability, and policy instead of one mandated agent framework.",
      "date": "2026-07-13",
      "topics": [
        "enterprise-agents",
        "agent-platform",
        "observability",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "source_count": 2,
      "metric": "structural",
      "url": "https://newruntime.com/signals/uber-platform-for-thousands-of-agents/"
    },
    {
      "kind": "Raw Signal",
      "slug": "agent-ready-saas-exposes-primitives",
      "title": "Agent-ready SaaS exposes primitives to external agents",
      "description": "Cloudflare's Code Mode compresses broad API access into search and execute primitives instead of thousands of tool definitions.",
      "date": "2026-07-01",
      "topics": [
        "agent-ready-web",
        "mcp",
        "saas",
        "api-design"
      ],
      "source_count": 1,
      "metric": "structural",
      "url": "https://newruntime.com/signals/agent-ready-saas-exposes-primitives/"
    },
    {
      "kind": "Raw Signal",
      "slug": "agentic-resource-discovery-indexes-skills-mcp-and-agents",
      "title": "Agentic Resource Discovery Indexes Skills, MCP, and Agents",
      "description": "Hugging Face treats agent capabilities as searchable resources, creating a discovery layer for tools that can be loaded at runtime.",
      "date": "2026-06-24",
      "topics": [
        "agent-discovery",
        "mcp",
        "skills"
      ],
      "source_count": 3,
      "metric": "notable",
      "url": "https://newruntime.com/signals/agentic-resource-discovery-indexes-skills-mcp-and-agents/"
    }
  ],
  "atlas_records": [
    {
      "kind": "Shift",
      "slug": "shared-context-infrastructure",
      "title": "Client-local memory -> shared context infrastructure",
      "description": "Context is shifting from private memory inside one AI client into a governed layer between agents, IDEs, documents, and tools.",
      "date": "2026-07-21",
      "topics": [
        "context-engineering",
        "agent-memory",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "source_count": 2,
      "metric": "emerging",
      "url": "https://newruntime.com/shifts/shared-context-infrastructure/"
    },
    {
      "kind": "Delta",
      "slug": "shared-context-portability",
      "title": "Shared context lets AI clients stop starting from zero",
      "description": "A separate context layer lets multiple AI clients read shared project context without a human manually copying memory.",
      "date": "2026-07-21",
      "topics": [
        "context-engineering",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "source_count": 2,
      "metric": "B1",
      "url": "https://newruntime.com/deltas/shared-context-portability/"
    }
  ]
}