The MCP Roadmap Is An API Roadmap

The MCP roadmap was updated on August 22nd, and I read it the way I read every roadmap that comes out of a fast-moving protocol: looking for the moment where the new thing stops being new and starts being infrastructure. This one has that moment all over it. There are five priority areas — agentic messaging primitives, HTTP-native transport unification and hardening, agent identity and enterprise-ready security, improved primitives, and improved SDK developer experience — and four of the five are problems the API space has been chewing on for a decade or more, arriving now at MCP’s door with n