Workflow management

Aug 02, 2026

MCP Tasks (async): Why Aren't Any Agents Supporting Them? — Cornelia Davis, Temporal

Cornelia Davis explains why the MCP tasks specification, designed for durable, long-running, and interactive operations, hasn't seen widespread adoption. She details V1's architectural flaws, particularly concerning scalability and stateful human-in-the-loop interactions, and introduces V2's shift to a stateless core, client-initiated updates, and a clearer path for client-side durability, while outlining future work on scaling and adoption.

Jul 24, 2026

Full Workshop: Setting Yourself Up for Success —Jason Liu, OpenAI Codex

Jason Liu from OpenAI shares advanced strategies for using Codex to automate complex workflows and manage personal information. He introduces key concepts like "compaction," dictation for input, and "appshots" for contextual awareness. The talk covers bringing context into the system via plugins and a personal memory vault, working with AI through automations, goals, and interconnected threads, and taking actions out in the real world, emphasizing the transformative power of "Computer Use" for broad system control.