[yompal]

Bearish on everyone needing to be on stateful protocols. Developers should have the option to have their state managed internal to their application.

[esafak]

Can't you simply use a stateful protocol and not report any state? Doesn't statefulness subsume statelessness? I am beginning to wrap my head around this space, so excuse the naive questions.

[yompal]

No worries! In other cases, I believe you would be right. But splitting up context is not optional with MCP. Part of the whole state will always reside in an external entity.