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Andy Halliday

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The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

You could say, filter all of the search results on this page.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Or you could create a web ticket on GitHub or any of those things.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Instead of having to guess which DOM elements you have to act on and then click in the correct order, no.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Now the website has its own way of saying, here are the high-level things that you can do on this website, and here are the commands to invoke each one of those.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

How do you put it out that efficiency advantage?

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Because WebMCP from Google can perform at a very high accuracy level.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

So like a checkout could be completed with 98% accuracy where a browser agent might flub it halfway through.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

But by shifting from examination of pixels to this structured schema approach,

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

WebMCP cuts the computational overhead by 70%.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Yeah.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

So it uses only 30% of the tokens, basically, to do that.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

You can imagine how token-intensive it is for a web browser to be using AI to try to figure out what the pixels on that page are.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Yeah.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And isn't it...

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

So let me describe specifically how Cloud Code looks at my other tabs through the Cloud MCP view.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And it says, okay, wait, let me take a snapshot and take a look at lovable.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

So I'm working in lovable over here.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

So it's looking at lovable.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

And then it says, okay, I'm going to scroll down in the chat and see what else was discussed.

The Daily AI Show
WebMCP, A Standard for Agents to Use the Web

Well, I guess was and then I can see it jump around like the browser is now moving around because Claude over here is working it in order to understand what the conversation prior to where I kind of ended up on the page was.