Tadas Antanavicius steps down as a Registry Working Group lead
A self-submitted pull request removed Tadas Antanavicius from the Registry Working Group leads list, merged on August 2. The stated reason is freeing time for two adjacent catalog projects, AI Catalog and Server Cards. The same maintainer authored the organization-namespace authorization fix in registry v1.8.0.
Tadas Antanavicius stepped down as a lead of the MCP Registry Working Group. The change is recorded in spec repo PR #3175, a self-submitted pull request opened July 30 and merged August 2 with the project's accepted label, removing his entry from the Registry WG leads list.
The PR body states the reason in full: "Per discussions with @rdimitrov and @dsp-ant, removing myself from WG Leads of Registry so I can free up some time to keep working on AI Catalog and Server Cards." The two named projects are the Agent-Card AI Catalog repository and the MCP organization's experimental Server Cards extension.
The same maintainer's registry work shipped in the July window: PR #1383, the fix granting organization namespaces only to org owners rather than all members, landed in registry v1.8.0. The merged PR is the only public statement of motive; this record keeps to what it documents.
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- Spec repo PR #3175 "docs(registry-wg): remove @tadasant from Registry WG Leads" - opened 2026-07-30 by tadasant, merged 2026-08-02 by mcp-commander[bot] with the accepted label; body reads "Per discussions with @rdimitrov and @dsp-ant, removing myself from WG Leads of Registry so I can free up some time to keep working on AI Catalog and Server Cards" - accessed
- GitHub release page for registry v1.8.0 - What's Changed credits PR #1383, the organization-namespace authorization fix, to @tadasant - accessed