{
  "title": "MCP resource subscriptions",
  "description": "Subscribe to resource changes and receive update notifications. Compatibility evidence is tracked independently from other MCP capabilities.",
  "slug": "mcp-resource-subscriptions",
  "locale": "en",
  "seoTitle": "MCP resource subscriptions compatibility — Can My Agent Use",
  "socialTitle": "MCP resource subscriptions",
  "socialDescription": "Subscribe to resource changes and receive update notifications. Unreviewed product cells remain unknown.",
  "llmSummary": "MCP resource subscriptions is an atomic MCP capability. Support for another MCP primitive does not imply this capability.",
  "audience": "Engineers comparing chat, desktop, and CLI agent harnesses.",
  "contentKind": "feature",
  "status": "published",
  "tags": [
    "interfaces",
    "mcp"
  ],
  "updated": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "category": "interfaces",
  "summary": "Subscribe to resource changes and receive update notifications.",
  "specLabel": "MCP 2026-07-28",
  "specification": {
    "id": "mcp",
    "revision": "2026-07-28",
    "maturity": "published",
    "role": "resource notification",
    "authority": "MCP project / AAIF ecosystem",
    "canonicalUrl": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28"
  },
  "aliases": [
    "resources/subscribe"
  ],
  "capabilityKind": "atomic",
  "parent": "mcp",
  "related": [],
  "relations": [],
  "highlight": false,
  "notes": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "text": "VS Code documents real-time resource updates and its source implements the legacy resources/subscribe, resources/unsubscribe, and notifications/resources/updated flow."
    }
  ],
  "issues": [],
  "resources": [
    {
      "title": "Model Context Protocol specification",
      "href": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28",
      "kind": "spec"
    },
    {
      "id": "microsoft-vscode-mcp-guide",
      "title": "Microsoft VS Code — MCP developer guide",
      "href": "https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/ai/mcp",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Microsoft",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "Resources — resource updates"
    },
    {
      "id": "microsoft-vscode-mcp-connection-source",
      "title": "Microsoft VS Code — MCP server connection implementation",
      "href": "https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/a39698f7e6ecc255f6e9cf752d1c6d01faf308da/src/vs/workbench/contrib/mcp/common/mcpServerConnection.ts",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Microsoft",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "subscribe, unsubscribe, and notifications/resources/updated handling"
    }
  ],
  "support": [
    {
      "harness": "vscode-copilot",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "yes",
          "noteIds": [
            1
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "dated-documentation",
            "revision": "VS Code docs and source commit a39698f7",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "local-default",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "protocol-revision",
              "value": "the inspected implementation uses the 2025-11-25 resources/subscribe flow; MCP 2026-07-28 replaces it with subscriptions/listen"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "microsoft-vscode-mcp-guide",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            },
            {
              "resourceId": "microsoft-vscode-mcp-connection-source",
              "type": "documented",
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            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "markdown": "/features/mcp-resource-subscriptions.md",
  "json": "/api/v1/features/mcp-resource-subscriptions.json",
  "body": "Subscribe to resource changes and receive update notifications.\n\nThis row remains unknown for a product until exact, dated evidence covers this capability rather than MCP generally."
}