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MCP tasksMCP 2026-07-28

Create, inspect, and manage long-running MCP tasks.

Terminology basis: MCP 2026-07-28. MCP 2026-07-28

MCP tasks: 0 supported, 1 partial, 0 unsupported, 30 unreviewed across 31 cataloged products.

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Current evidence by product

Can my agent use MCP tasks?

Read across for the answer. 1 of 31 current product columns have reviewed evidence; unreviewed does not mean unsupported.

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  • Supported0
  • Partial1
  • Unsupported0
  • Unknown30
  • Not applicable0

Web

9 products

Desktop

13 products

CLI

9 products

Unknown means no public evidence has been reviewed for that product and capability. It does not mean unsupported.

How statuses are assigned

Definition and scope

What this capability means

Create, inspect, and manage long-running MCP tasks.

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.

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Partial
Target
VS Code source commit a39698f7 · dated-documentation
Environment
preview-enabled
Observed
2026-08-28
  • protocol-revisionsource implements the experimental 2025-11-25 core task design; MCP 2026-07-28 moves redesigned tasks to io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks with tasks/get and tasks/update semantics
  • runtimeimplementation evidence is present in current source, but no first-party end-user documentation was located for availability in a stable VS Code release
Evidence
  1. 1. Pinned VS Code source implements creation, status inspection, result retrieval, cancellation, and listing for the older experimental MCP task design.