WebMCP for Beginners
March 18, 2026
Raise your hand if you thought WebMCP was just an MCP server. Guilty as charged. I did too. It turns out it’s a W3C standard that uses similar concepts to MCP. Here’s what it actually is.
WebMCP is a way for websites to define actions that AI agents can call directly.
I am increasingly of the opinion that for many websites it’s not humans that matter as users but agents. But if you’ve tried to use many websites with an agent you will find that can be very challenging. So there are a number of emerging standards and patterns for making sites more usable by agents. One of those is WebMCP which Rizel Scarlett gives a great introduction to here.
