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+# Server Cards: Roadmap Priorities
+
+The Server Card working group's proposed priorities for the core-maintainer
+roadmap. Maintainers are consolidating the roadmap around an upcoming spec
+release, so new proposals are paused for ~2 weeks; until then the WG stays
+focused on landing the Server Card SEP ([SEP-2127]) and finishing SDK reviews.
+These are the three themes, in priority order, we want carried into that
+roadmap.
+
+## 1. Graduate the Server Card as an official MCP extension
+
+Server Cards are close but still experimental. [SEP-2127] is in review, and the
+Extensions Track ([SEP-2133]) will not advance it without a merged SDK reference
+implementation. Getting to an accepted, adoptable extension is the top priority.
+
+- **SDK reference implementations** ([#16]): Python ([python-sdk#2951]), Go
+  ([go-sdk#1024]), TypeScript ([typescript-sdk#2527]) — the drafts need a
+  client-implementer review before leaving draft.
+- **Best practices** for client and server implementors ([#40], [PR #36]) —
+  trimming length, likely via collapsible sections.
+- **Reference showcase** (GitHub MCP Server) kept in sync with the spec ([#34]).
+- Freeze `schema.json` as a public contract and keep the SDK models from
+  drifting from it.
+
+## 2. Describe what a server does, not just where to reach it
+
+A card today says _where_ to connect but not _what_ the server can do. That
+blocks consumers who never open a live connection — registries, developer
+portals, agent orchestrators planning tool routing — for whom the card is a list
+of URLs with no operations (the role OpenAPI plays for REST APIs). Primitives
+were deliberately removed from the card ([PR #19]); this track revisits adding
+them back for static discovery.
+
+- Optional `tools` / `resources` / `prompts` using the existing MCP types;
+  dynamic servers omit them and `tools/list` stays the runtime source of truth
+  ([#30], [SEP-2127 thread][sep-2127]).
+- Settle the split with the MCP Registry `server.json` and keep the two shapes
+  consistent (avoid `server.json` breaking changes).
+
+## 3. Authentication
+
+Cards need to express real-world auth well enough that a client can actually
+connect. Auth is per-remote and varies across endpoints, and reviewers have
+raised scenarios the current shape doesn't cover ([#13], core-spec
+[PR #2742][pr2742]).
+
+- First confirm the current draft isn't backwards-incompatible with those
+  scenarios.
+- Land the initial SEP with a deliberately limited auth shape.
+- Fast-follow to the fuller set once we have community feedback, rather than
+  locking many new fields in up front.
+
+[sep-2127]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2127
+[SEP-2133]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2133
+[pr2742]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2742
+[python-sdk#2951]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/pull/2951
+[go-sdk#1024]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk/pull/1024
+[typescript-sdk#2527]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/pull/2527
+[#13]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-server-card/issues/13
+[#16]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-server-card/issues/16
+[#30]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-server-card/issues/30
+[#34]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-server-card/issues/34
+[#40]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-server-card/issues/40
+[PR #19]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-server-card/pull/19
+[PR #36]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-server-card/pull/36