Google and Microsoft’s recent launch of the Web Model Context Protocol (WebMCP) aims to improve interactions between AI agents and websites, addressing inefficiencies that have plagued these technologies. Developed collaboratively within the W3C Web Machine Learning community, WebMCP allows websites to expose structured tools callable directly by AI agents through a new browser API, thereby replacing complex methods like visual screen-scraping and DOM parsing. This innovation is expected to enhance cost efficiency and reliability for enterprises by enabling single structured tool calls, thus reducing the lengthy sequences of interactions currently required for AI to navigate online environments.
Google and Microsoft unveil WebMCP in Chrome 146 for AI agent interaction enhancements
