Specification feature · interfaces
MCP resource subscriptionsMCP 2026-07-28
Subscribe to resource changes and receive update notifications.
Terminology basis: MCP 2026-07-28. MCP 2026-07-28
MCP resource subscriptions: 1 supported, 0 partial, 0 unsupported, 30 unreviewed across 31 cataloged products.
Current evidence by product
Can my agent use MCP resource subscriptions?
Read across for the answer. 1 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
Subscribe to resource changes and receive update notifications.
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
- VS Code docs and source commit a39698f7 · dated-documentation
- Environment
- local-default
- Observed
- 2026-08-28
- protocol-revisionthe inspected implementation uses the 2025-11-25 resources/subscribe flow; MCP 2026-07-28 replaces it with subscriptions/listen
- Microsoft VS Code — MCP developer guidedocumented · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Microsoft VS Code — MCP server connection implementationdocumented · reviewed 2026-08-28
- 1. VS Code documents real-time resource updates and its source implements the legacy resources/subscribe, resources/unsubscribe, and notifications/resources/updated flow.
No sourced issues are attached to this row.
- Model Context Protocol specification spec
- Microsoft VS Code — MCP developer guide documented · Microsoft · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Microsoft VS Code — MCP server connection implementation documented · Microsoft · reviewed 2026-08-28
Found a wrong or incomplete result?
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