Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for determining quasi co-location (QCL) and/or transmission configuration information (TCI) state assumption information for a dynamic control resource set (CORESET). An example method by a user equipment (UE) generally includes receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a control channel monitoring occasion, the first PDCCH indicating at least one dynamic CORESET; and receiving a second PDCCH within the dynamic CORESET, wherein the second PDCCH is received in accordance with at least one QCL assumption for the at least one dynamic CORESET.