Specification feature · interfaces
MCP list-changed notificationsMCP 2026-07-28
Refresh capability lists when a server announces dynamic changes.
Terminology basis: MCP 2026-07-28. MCP 2026-07-28
MCP list-changed notifications: 2 supported, 0 partial, 0 unsupported, 29 unreviewed across 31 cataloged products.
Current evidence by product
Can my agent use MCP list-changed notifications?
Read across for the answer. 2 of 31 current product columns have reviewed evidence; unreviewed does not mean unsupported.
Web
9 productsDesktop
13 productsCLI
9 productsDefinition and scope
What this capability means
Refresh capability lists when a server announces dynamic changes.
This row remains unknown for a product until exact, dated evidence covers this capability rather than MCP generally.
Traceable compatibility
Assertion ledger
Documentation evidence only. No runtime conformance test is implied.
- Target
- current Claude Code MCP documentation · dated-documentation
- Environment
- local-default
- Observed
- 2026-08-28
No additional condition is recorded for this statement.
- Anthropic — Connect Claude Code to tools via MCPdocumented · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Target
- Gemini CLI v0.57.0 · release
- Environment
- local-default
- Observed
- 2026-08-28
- protocol-revisionevidence covers the tool, resource, and prompt list_changed notification handlers in the v0.57.0 MCP client
- Google Gemini CLI v0.57.0 — MCP client implementationdocumented · reviewed 2026-08-28
- 1. Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Claude Code explicitly supports MCP `list_changed` notifications and refreshes available tools, prompts, and resources without reconnecting.
- 2. Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Gemini CLI v0.57.0 registers tool, resource, and prompt list-change notification handlers and refreshes each corresponding registry.
No sourced issues are attached to this row.
- Model Context Protocol specification spec
- Anthropic — Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP documented · Anthropic · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Google Gemini CLI v0.57.0 — MCP client implementation documented · Google · reviewed 2026-08-28
Found a wrong or incomplete result?
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