State of MCP - Multi-agent, identities, and overlapping protocols

At AGNTCon/MCPCon Europe, the creators of the Model Context Protocol reported growth: 500 million monthly SDK downloads and over 1 billion tool calls through the Claude platform. Fewer than a quarter of the 40+ maintainers work at Anthropic, with contributors from Google Cloud, Microsoft, OpenAI, and AWS.

• 500 million monthly first-level SDK downloads
• Over 1 billion tool calls through Claude
• Fewer than 25% of maintainers work at Anthropic
• MCP transferred to the Linux Foundation as an AAIF project