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WebMCP Enables AI Agents to Interact With Websites Through Structured Actions

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OpenAI, Shopify, and Cloudflare are deploying WebMCP to enable AI agents to interact directly with website actions without relying on visual automation.

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OpenAI, Shopify, and Cloudflare have begun integrating WebMCP—a protocol that lets AI agents perform structured actions within websites—into live products. Rather than relying on visual clicks or screen scraping, the framework gives AI systems a more direct and reliable way to access and execute website functionality, potentially reshaping how search engines and AI tools crawl, interact with, and understand web pages.

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