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WebMCP Proposal

https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/
41•Alifatisk•1h ago

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Flux159•39m ago
This was announced in early preview a few days ago by Chrome as well: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-epp

I think that the github repo's README may be more useful: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp?tab=readme-ov-f...

Also, the prior implementations may be useful to look at: https://github.com/MiguelsPizza/WebMCP and https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/WebMCP

politelemon•10m ago
This GitHub readme was helpful in understanding their motivation, cheers for sharing it.

> Integrating agents into it prevents fragmentation of their service and allows them to keep ownership of their interface, branding and connection with their users

Looking at the contrived examples given, I just don't see how they're achieving this. In fact it looks like creating MCP specific tools will achieve exactly the opposite. There will immediately be two ways to accomplish a thing and this will result in a drift over time as developers need to take into account two ways of interacting with a component on screen. There should be no difference, but there will be.

Having the LLM interpret and understand a page context would be much more in line with assistive technologies. It would require site owners to provide a more useful interface for people in need of assistance.

mcintyre1994•26m ago
Wes Bos has a pretty cool demo of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOPhVSeimtI

I really like the way you can expose your schema through adding fields to a web form, that feels like a really nice extension and a great way to piggyback on your existing logic.

To me this seems much more promising than either needing an MCP server or the MCP Apps proposal.

jayd16•22m ago
Have any sickos tried to point AI at SOAP APIs with WSDL definitions, yet?
vessenes•21m ago
I’m just personally really excited about building cli tools that are deployed with uvx. One line, instructions to add a skill, no faffing about with the mcp spec and server implementations. Feels like so much less dev friction.
baalimago•20m ago
Very cool! I imagine it'll be possible to start a static webserver + WebMCP app then use browser as virtualization layer instead of npm/uvx.

The browser has tons of functionality baked in, everything from web workers to persistence.

This would also allow for interesting ways of authenticating/manipulating data from existing sites. Say I'm logged into image-website-x. I can then use the WebMCP to allow agents to interact with the images I've stored there. The WebMCP becomes a much more intuitive way than interpreting the DOM elements

cadamsdotcom•17m ago
Great to see people thinking about this. But it feels like a step on the road to something simpler.

For example, web accessibility has potential as a starting point for making actions automatable, with the advantage that the automatable things are visible to humans, so are less likely to drift / break over time.

Any work happening in that space?

kekqqq•5m ago
Finally, I was hoping for this to be implemented in 2026. Rendered DOM is for humans, not for agents.
charcircuit•3m ago
This is coming late as skills have largely replaced MCP. Now your site can just host a SKILL.md to tell agents how to use the site.
ATechGuy•2m ago
Interesting. I'd appreciate an example. Thanks!

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