---
title: Work Context Protocol
kind: protocol
role: Creator
years: 2025 – present
status: shipped
summary: >-
  Open-source protocol giving AI agents persistent, structured work memory
  across sessions.
links:
  - label: workcontextprotocol.io
    url: 'https://workcontextprotocol.io'
tags:
  - protocol
  - open-source
  - ai
  - mcp
order: 1
---

Coding agents are smart in the moment and amnesiac across moments. Work Context
Protocol is the layer that gives them durable, structured memory of the work
itself — what you're building, what's in progress, what was decided, who said
what — stored as markdown files in a git repo and exposed via a Model Context
Protocol server.

It started as scaffolding I wanted for my own agent workflows and turned out to
be useful enough to publish. The open-source server runs locally; the hosted
version is [WCP Cloud](/portfolio/wcp-cloud).