From a159485812d06002577a423a7d5b95d6ef18d5cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 22:32:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] WebMCP: move the pin to the November 9 draft The draft's only change since the November 2 text (#371) moves when the toolactivated event fires: after the page's execute function is called, not before. No claim on the page mentions that event, so the page only gets the new draft date and the new pin. last_verified stays, since the rest of the page was not rechecked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NWyUpEyjMbQNG3y7ZuBRwU --- content/standards/webmcp.md | 8 ++++---- spec-pins.json | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) 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" } ] },