The agent-ready web: Simplify user actions with WebMCP — Tara Agyemang, Google
Google Chrome proposes WebMCP, a web standard letting sites expose actions directly to AI agents.
“We have been building the web for human actions and human eyes, and we've been trying to optimize for that, but these days, it's not just humans that are using the web.”
Google Chrome's Tara Agyemang introduced WebMCP, a proposed web standard that lets websites expose actions directly to AI agents instead of forcing agents to parse the DOM, accessibility tree, and screenshots. It matters because current agent interactions with the web are brittle, slow, and token-expensive, and a standardized interface could make the agent-ready web far more reliable and efficient.