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Requested by Den Delimarsky · Slack thread

Before: The SEP guidelines mention discussing an idea with the relevant working or interest group only as a tip inside a Note, so a SEP can be submitted without any prior community discussion.

After: Prior discussion with the relevant working or interest group in Discord is a requirement. SEP authors discuss the idea with the group before opening the SEP PR and link that discussion in the PR description (a Discord thread, WG/IG meeting notes, or a GitHub Discussion), with #general or GitHub Discussions as the fallback when no relevant group exists. The sponsor confirms the discussion happened and is linked before moving a SEP to in-review. The FAQ on the working and interest groups page and the Specification Proposal Guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md state the same rule.

How: docs/community/sep-guidelines.mdx turns the Note's discussion bullet into a normative paragraph above the numbered steps and adds a new step 1 "Discuss with the relevant group", renumbering the rest. The sponsor check is one added sentence in the formal review step. No new SEP preamble fields. docs/community/working-interest-groups.mdx changes only the "Do I need to be in a WG to submit a SEP?" answer. CONTRIBUTING.md adds one sentence linking to the guidelines.


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2. **Create a pull request** adding your SEP file to the `seps/` directory in the [specification repository](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol).
3. **Create a pull request** adding your SEP file to the `seps/` directory in the [specification repository](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol).

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@claude keep in mind that now the repository is restricted to PRs from collaborators only.

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Updated step 3 to state the restriction. It now ends with: "The repository accepts pull requests from collaborators only."


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