WebMCP

Do you want to profit from Agentic traffic but don’t want to have to maintain separate MCP endpoints?

You may not have to. There is a proposed standard called WebMCP which will allow you to annotate your existing HTML and JavaScript in a way that makes them easier to understand and use by AI Agents.

Google Chrome Labs has released this as an experimental feature, so it's not widely in use, but there are some interesting demos.

The least practical but most fun was the WebMPC Maze.

In reality, the travel booking and e-commerce examples seemed more practical.

This is a brilliant way of streamlining page navigation for Agentic AI, but at the same time this could be a security quagmire.

We are already seeing easily exploitable prompt injection attacks when browsing the web normally.

If we streamline how Agents interact with websites, we also potentially streamline the vector of attack for prompt injections.

That is probably why we don’t see wider adoption of this standard yet.

I think this is pretty interesting technology.

What are your thoughts about WebMCP?