Event-driven agents, powered by MCP

Microsoft Developer discusses the MCP Triggers & Events experimental extension, which enables event-driven agent patterns by letting agents poll MCP servers for events and receive webhook-based triggers.

Overview

The video covers:

• What the MCP Triggers & Events experimental extension is
• How agents can:
  • Poll MCP servers for events
  • Receive webhook triggers when events occur
• The kinds of agent architectures this enables when agents can react to events instead of only running on-demand
• A live demo of the extension in action