--- title: Expanding the MCP Maintainer Team | daily.dev description: The Model Context Protocol project announced two governance updates: Clare Liguori, a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS working on Kiro and Strands Agents SDK,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/expanding-the-mcp-maintainer-team-0lpzivypb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Expanding the MCP Maintainer Team | daily.dev og:description: The Model Context Protocol project announced two governance updates: Clare Liguori, a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS working on Kiro and Strands Agents SDK,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/expanding-the-mcp-maintainer-team-0lpzivypb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0lpziVYPb.png og:image:alt: Expanding the MCP Maintainer Team og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Expanding the MCP Maintainer Team **[Model Context Protocol](https://daily.dev/sources/modelcontextprotocol-blog)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Model Context Protocol project announced two governance updates: Clare Liguori, a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS working on Kiro and Strands Agents SDK, joins as a Core Maintainer, and Den Delimarsky, a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, is promoted from Core Maintainer to Lead Maintainer alongside David Soria Parra. The post recaps the project's governance model introduced last summer, its move to the Agentic AI Foundation, and highlights Delimarsky's work on MCP's authorization specification and security proposals. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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