WebMCP in Chrome 146: Google and Microsoft's Proposed Standard Exposes Structured Website Actions to AI Agents
Something genuinely important is shipping in Chrome 146: an early preview of WebMCP, a W3C draft standard jointly developed by Google and Microsoft that fundamentally changes how AI agents interact with websites. Right now, AI agents that browse the web do so by scraping DOM elements — reading HTML, finding buttons, inferring what actions are available. It’s brittle. A website redesign breaks the agent. A modal renders differently across browsers and the agent gets stuck. This approach works well enough for demos but fails at production scale. ...