WebMCP: Google wants to make the web machine-readable for AI agents (opens in new tab)

Google is using I/O 2026 to push Chrome further toward an “agentic web.” The most technically interesting component is called WebMCP, and it is intended not only to make websites usable for people, but also to make them structurally usable for browser-based AI agents. Google describes WebMCP as a proposed open web standard that allows […]

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