By Aminu Abdullahi
Publication Date: 2026-02-16 14:00:00
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Google’s Chrome team has rolled out an early preview of WebMCP, a proposed web standard that enables websites to communicate directly with AI agents via structured tools rather than relying on messy screen scraping.
Today, when AI agents access websites, they often rely on screenshots or raw HTML to determine what to do. That means parsing code, scanning layouts, and making repeated guesses, a process that can be slow, expensive, and prone to breaking when page designs change.
WebMCP, short for Web Model Context Protocol, is meant to change that.
Announcing the preview, Google developer André Cipriani Bandarra wrote that WebMCP “aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and…
