New informational CEP has dropped!

This is CEP-35, which standardizes functionality already present in our TypeScript SDK, specifically, stateless operations.

Typically, MCP servers and clients use an initialization lifecycle to negotiate capabilities. However, if you don’t need a long-lived session with a server, or if you already know the server’s supported capabilities, this lifecycle introduces unnecessary overhead.

Stateless mode addresses this by allowing clients to make one-shot requests to servers. It’s lighter, reduces roundtrips, and simplifies interactions.

While this functionality has been available for some time, we wanted to standardize it further as we advance the Rust SDK. This ensures parity and sets clear expectations and conventions across different implementations.

Read more in the CEP-35 spec:
https://docs.contextvm.org/spec/ceps/informational/cep-35/

New issue of the CVM world newsletter. This time we cover the latest news from ContextVM. In particular, we discuss the recent merging of two new specifications, CEP-23, which allows servers to publish a public profile and post notes signed with the same keypair used for protocol operations, and CEP-24, which allows users to attach comments and reviews to servers.
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We've just merged CEP‑24 🚀
This standardizes how NIP‑22 can be used to leave reviews attached to server announcements (https://docs.contextvm.org/spec/ceps/cep-24/). This provides a simple way for users to publish their experiences with the servers. Together with CEP‑23, which standardizes how servers can leverage profile‑metadata events (kind 0) and notes (kind 1), the circle is now complete.

Server operators can now maintain a social presence interoperable with any Nostr client, and they can receive and answer reviews directly on their servers. This makes the ecosystem more participatory and helps operators and users stay in contact. In addition, we have deployed an implementation of reviews on the https://contextvm.org website.

Let's keep building! 🚀🚀

At ContextVM we believe in protocols over platforms.

We believe in cryptographic keys over accounts.

We believe in direct value exchange over third-party intermediaries.

Your infrastructure, your rules.

A large part of the latest updates was thanks to the SoB students. Thanks, guys you rock! 🔥

We continue shipping! A new version of the CVMI CLI, 0.3.0, is available. This time we integrated the last sparse CLI that had not yet been included, CTXCN.

The new command in CVMI is `npx cvmi cn`; the functionality is exactly the same then the previous CTXCN. Some minor bugs have been squashed, and the config‑file naming convention has changed to be more consistent with the 'cn' command. Apart from that, everything else remains the same.

This is the final integration needed to bring all previous sparse CLIs into CVMI, making it truly the Swiss army knife for the CVM ecosystem 💪

To update, just run `npx cvmi@latest`.

This is also already integrated in https://contextvm.org Now servers that publish profile metadata will render a profile card in the sidebar. If the server has notes published, they will appear there as well. This is the Relatr server page, for example.

CEP-23 is now merged, and TS SDK 0.9.0 ships support for publishing server profile metadata (kind:0) directly from the Nostr server transport.

This standardizes a pattern we were already seeing in the wild: servers using the same pubkey not only for protocol operations, but also for profile metadata and public social communication on Nostr.

With CEP-23, servers can optionally publish kind:0 for human-friendly identity metadata and `kind:1` notes for updates, changelogs, and operator communication, without changing the existing discovery model.

`kind:11316` remains the machine-readable capability surface. `kind:0` and `kind:1` add the social layer.

A small addition, but an important step toward making ContextVM servers more legible, interoperable, and present across the wider Nostr ecosystem.

CEP-23 + TS SDK 0.9.0 are live. Skills are updated as well. Happy building
https://docs.contextvm.org/spec/ceps/cep-23/

The goal was clear: build a validation plugin system for Relatr that would let anyone write plugins easily, share them easily, install them easily, and distribute them natively through Nostr itself.
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