There's a clean story everyone tells about AI agents and the web.
Agents will call structured tools. Websites will expose those tools. Everything will be typed, reliable, and boring in the good way. Google even shipped a standard for it — WebMCP, in Chrome, behind a flag.
It's a genuinely good idea. There's just one problem.
Almost nobody has implemented it. Adoption is effectively zero. And web standards don't get adopted in quarters — they get adopted in years, if they get adopted at all.
So in the meantime, your agent is still doing the embarrassing thing: screenshotting pages, scraping the DOM, clicking at pixel coordinates, and quietly praying the layout didn't shift since last Tuesday.
