diff --git a/content/standards/webmcp.md b/content/standards/webmcp.md index 52b4e57..09f0f76 100644 --- a/content/standards/webmcp.md +++ b/content/standards/webmcp.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: WebMCP job: act order: 1 status: early -status_note: Draft (Nov 2, 2026); Chrome and Edge trials; live in ChatGPT desktop and Shopify +status_note: Draft (Nov 9, 2026); Chrome and Edge trials; live in ChatGPT desktop and Shopify tagline: page tools phrase: A page hands typed tools to the agent in your browser analogy: A labeled menu of actions for the agent in your browser. @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ when_to_use: When agents use your site in people's browsers. Add tools to your k backers: W3C Web ML community group; Microsoft and Google editors reality_check: Early use with two big real-world users, ChatGPT's desktop browser and Shopify, while Chrome and Edge are still in trials. links: - - label: Draft (Nov 2, 2026) + - label: Draft (Nov 9, 2026) url: https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/ - label: Chrome docs url: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ spec_sources: - kind: git-path repo: webmachinelearning/webmcp path: index.bs - pin: "847677e03d3e61aaddf65ad328147129083168c0" + pin: "68a80fe3d10fac37dd42e2dee57b16989804392c" --- ## How it works @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ One caveat: a page's tool descriptions are text the AI reads, so a malicious sit ## Who's behind it -Microsoft and Google proposed it together in August 2025; the W3C's Web Machine Learning community group took it up that September, with editors from both companies. The current text is a [draft dated November 2, 2026](https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/) that says plainly it is "not a W3C Standard." A [draft W3C charter](https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/agenticweb-wg.html) for a new Agentic Web Working Group would take WebMCP as its starting text, but that group does not exist yet. +Microsoft and Google proposed it together in August 2025; the W3C's Web Machine Learning community group took it up that September, with editors from both companies. The current text is a [draft dated November 9, 2026](https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/) that says plainly it is "not a W3C Standard." A [draft W3C charter](https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/agenticweb-wg.html) for a new Agentic Web Working Group would take WebMCP as its starting text, but that group does not exist yet. [Chrome has been testing it](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp) in a time-limited "origin trial" (Chrome 149-156) since May 2026; on September 28 [Google asked to extend the trial](http://www.mail-archive.com/blink-dev@chromium.org/msg17568.html) to Chrome 162 because feedback is still changing the API, so there's no ship date. On October 28, Google said [pages using the trial had passed 0.5% of all Chrome page loads](http://www.mail-archive.com/blink-dev@chromium.org/msg17895.html), though agents call the tools far less often. [Edge runs its own trial](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/origin-trials/trials/0b76fe60-b266-458e-a285-04e375c0c31a) (through March 30, 2027) and [calls it "ready for testing."](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2026/09/21/new-in-edge-for-developers-create-better-components-and-make-your-site-agent-ready/) diff --git a/spec-pins.json b/spec-pins.json index bd152ad..2cc5da5 100644 --- a/spec-pins.json +++ b/spec-pins.json @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ "kind": "git-path", "repo": "webmachinelearning/webmcp", "path": "index.bs", - "pin": "847677e03d3e61aaddf65ad328147129083168c0" + "pin": "68a80fe3d10fac37dd42e2dee57b16989804392c" } ] },