---
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
---

**The job:** Give coding agents durable, structured memory of the work itself: what you're building, what's in progress, what was decided, who said what.

Coding agents are smart in the moment and amnesiac across moments. WCP stores work items, documents, namespaces, and the links between them as markdown files in a git repo, 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).