WebMCP: Why Google’s New Browser Standard Could Change How AI Agents Use the Web

For the last two years, most “AI agents on the web” s have looked impressive for one reason and fragile for another. They were impressive because an agent could open a site, inspect the page, click buttons, fill forms, and complete flows that were originally built for humans. But they were fragile because the agent was usually guessing its way through the interface by reading DOM structure, interpreting screenshots, or inferring intent from labels and layout rather than calling a stable, explicit interface. Google’s recently.