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# Agents Charter ## Group Type ## Mission Statement ## Scope ### In Scope ### Out of Scope ### Related Groups ## Leadership ## Membership ## Operations ## Resources ## Discussion Topics ### Planned Outputs ## Changelog

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# Agents Charter

> Charter for the MCP Agents Interest Group.

## Group Type

**Interest Group**

## Mission Statement

The Agents Interest Group exists to make interactions with agent-backed systems
interoperable over MCP. Today, these systems are typically exposed as ordinary
tools or through framework-specific integrations, leaving durable execution,
capability discovery, delegation, and multi-turn interaction to ad hoc conventions.
The IG evaluates which remaining gaps require protocol support. Based on production
use cases and prototypes, the group will recommend how to evolve the protocol, create
additional extensions or document how existing MCP primitives should be used consistently.

## Scope

### In Scope

* **Agents Extension Evaluation**: Evaluate agent-backed MCP use cases, including
  agent-as-tool, remote-agent, and supervisor/sub-agent patterns, to determine
  whether an Agents Extension is needed to complement Tasks.
* **Prototypes and Proposals**: Develop narrowly scoped proofs of concept where they
  help determine whether to introduce an Agents Extension, evolve Tasks, or rely on
  existing MCP primitives.
* **Cross-Cutting Concerns**: Coordinate with relevant groups when evaluated agent
  use cases raise tasks, transport, events, skills, authorization, metadata, or
  external-interoperability questions.
* **Documentation**: Document agent-backed MCP use cases, findings, and any
  recommendations produced by the group.

### Out of Scope

* Building or standardizing general-purpose agent frameworks and runtimes, including
  internal choices about planning, memory, model selection, and orchestration. The
  group focuses on behavior at MCP interoperability boundaries rather than host or
  server implementation internals.
* Transport wire formats and session mechanics, which are owned by the Transports WG.
* Tasks, general event delivery, and callback mechanisms, which are owned by the
  Tasks and Events WG.

The charter does not predetermine where inference or agent loops run, or whether a
particular capability belongs in Tasks, an Agents Extension, or existing MCP
primitives. The IG evaluates those questions through its discussions.

### Related Groups

* **[Transports WG](/community/working-groups/transports)** -
  Task polling, multi-round-trip requests, stateless operation, and request
  association depend on transport and message-flow semantics.
* **[Tasks and Events WG](/community/working-groups/tasks-events)** -
  Tasks and proactive task-status and completion notifications are owned by that
  group. The IG provides use cases and requirements as input.

## Leadership

| Role | Name | Organization | GitHub | Term |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Facilitator | Luca Chang | Amazon Web Services | [@LucaButBoring](https://github.com/LucaButBoring) | Initial |

## Membership

| Name | Organization | GitHub | Discord | Level |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Luca Chang | Amazon Web Services | [@LucaButBoring](https://github.com/LucaButBoring) | | Facilitator |

## Operations

| Meeting | Frequency | Duration | Purpose |
| - | - | - | - |
| Working Session | Weekly | 30 minutes | Technical discussion, research, and proposal review |

Meetings are published at
[meet.modelcontextprotocol.io](https://meet.modelcontextprotocol.io).

Discord: `#agents-wg`

## Resources

* Group repository:
  [modelcontextprotocol/agents-wg](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/agents-wg)

## Discussion Topics

| Item | Status | Target Date | Champion |
| - | - | - | - |
| Agents Extension evaluation and recommendation | In Progress | | TBD |
| Two-level agent definition proof of concept | In Progress | | [@LucaButBoring](https://github.com/LucaButBoring), [@madhaviai](https://github.com/madhaviai) |

### Planned Outputs

* The group publishes an evaluation of whether an Agents Extension is needed to
  complement Tasks, supported by documented use cases and relevant prototype
  evidence.
* Based on that evaluation, the group recommends evolving Tasks, recommends an
  Agents Extension, or documents how existing MCP primitives are sufficient.
* Proposed agent protocol surface is evaluated through prototypes and
  implementation feedback before being advanced.

## Changelog

| Date | Change |
| - | - |
| 2026-08-04 | Initial charter (as the Agents WG) |
| 2026-10-16 | Converted to an Interest Group. Tasks scope moved to the Tasks and Events WG. |
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