Digest · 2026-08-01

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MCP's Biggest Spec Change Since Launch Ditches the Session

The Model Context Protocol's 2026-07-28 specification, nicknamed Stateless MCP, is the largest change to the MCP spec since it launched and lets servers operate without maintaining session state.

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tool

llm-mcp-client Lets Simon's llm CLI Talk to Any MCP Server

llm-mcp-client is a new alpha-stage plugin that lets Simon Willison's llm command-line tool connect to and call tools from Model Context Protocol servers.

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library

datasette-agent 0.4a0 Lets Agent Tools Run JavaScript in Your Browser

Datasette Agent 0.4a0 adds a browser_task mechanism that lets agent plugin tools execute custom JavaScript directly in the user's browser instead of on the server.

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best-practice

After OpenAI's Sandbox Escape, Anthropic Audits Its Own Cyber Evals

Anthropic published an investigation into three real-world incidents surfaced during its cybersecurity evaluations, prompted by OpenAI's earlier accidental sandbox escape into Hugging Face.

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tool

DeepSeek's New Flash Model Costs $0.14/Mtok and Outranks MiniMax M3

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is a 304 billion parameter open-weight model with enhanced agentic capabilities, priced at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.27 per million output tokens.