Plain Strata: No Handshake Required

Plain Strata · Jul 28, 2026 · 11m

This week's story in decentralized AI is not a launch. It is a deletion. On July 28, a specification called MCP, the wiring that lets an AI model reach outside its own head to open a file or run a search, deleted the session: no handshake, no session ID, no line held open. Until this week that wiring worked like a phone call. You dialed in, one operator picked up, and that one machine was the only one who could serve you for the rest of the conversation. Run several servers and they all had to share a card index of every open caller. Now every request carries everything the server needs to…