Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for determining quasi co-location (QCL) and/or transmission configuration information (TCI) state assumption information for a dynamic control resource set (CORESET). A user equipment (UE) may receive and/or detect a downlink control information (DCI) that schedules at least one dynamic CORESET and indicates a TCI state from a list of one or more TCI states for the dynamic CORESET. The UE may apply the indicated TCI state for processing physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmissions in the dynamic CORESET when one or more conditions are met.