--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'The agent-ready web: Simplify user actions with WebMCP — Tara Agyemang, Google' description: >- Buying two concert tickets costs an AI agent the entire DOM, the accessibility tree, a screenshot, pixel coordinate math, and then a click that might miss because an ad just loaded and shifted the layout. Tara Agyemang from the Google Chrome team introduces WebMCP, a proposed web standard that replaces that process with structured tools: instead of guessing what your site does, agents get a menu of named, typed, described actions they can call directly. The talk covers two implementation paths. The declarative API adds a few HTML attributes to existing forms and the browser generates the JSON schema automatically. The imperative API lets you register custom tools in JavaScript for complex multi step flows, with an execute block that runs normal DOM code and returns state back to the agent. The live demo completes a concert ticket purchase in three tool calls: search by name, open the concert page, call purchase with quantity and section. Still experimental and in early preview on Chrome 146, but an eval CLI and inspector extension are available now for testing your own sites. Speaker info: - https://x.com/tara_ojo - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/taraojo - https://github.com/taraojo --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/ghJmWQCIHRM-the-agent-ready-web-simplify-user-actions-with-webmcp Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T09:35:51.268Z' language: null children: [] videoId: ghJmWQCIHRM durationSeconds: 1294 publishedAt: '2026-06-11T16:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 115 endSeconds: 211 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=115' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 115 endSeconds: 211 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=115' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 222 endSeconds: 354 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=222' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 222 endSeconds: 354 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=222' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 367 endSeconds: 456 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=367' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 367 endSeconds: 456 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=367' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 467 endSeconds: 601 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=467' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 612 endSeconds: 723 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=612' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 612 endSeconds: 723 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=612' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 734 endSeconds: 855 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=734' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 734 endSeconds: 855 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=734' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 855 endSeconds: 868 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=855' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 868 endSeconds: 981 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=868' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 992 endSeconds: 1127 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=992' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 992 endSeconds: 1127 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=992' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 1137 endSeconds: 1294 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM?t=1137' heldReason: rights --- # The agent-ready web: Simplify user actions with WebMCP — Tara Agyemang, Google Buying two concert tickets costs an AI agent the entire DOM, the accessibility tree, a screenshot, pixel coordinate math, and then a click that might miss because an ad just loaded and shifted the layout. Tara Agyemang from the Google Chrome team introduces WebMCP, a proposed web standard that replaces that process with structured tools: instead of guessing what your site does, agents get a menu of named, typed, described actions they can call directly. The talk covers two implementation paths. The declarative API adds a few HTML attributes to existing forms and the browser generates the JSON schema automatically. The imperative API lets you register custom tools in JavaScript for complex multi step flows, with an execute block that runs normal DOM code and returns state back to the agent. The live demo completes a concert ticket purchase in three tool calls: search by name, open the concert page, call purchase with quantity and section. Still experimental and in early preview on Chrome 146, but an eval CLI and inspector extension are available now for testing your own sites. Speaker info: - https://x.com/tara_ojo - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/taraojo - https://github.com/taraojo --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/ghJmWQCIHRM-the-agent-ready-web-simplify-user-actions-with-webmcp Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ghJmWQCIHRM · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.