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part of why this proposal has been somewhat difficult to follow is that we seem to have two viewpoints:
the README reads as if it is a very high level community-group-like initiative which could produce many proposals
the proposal doc reads as if it is a single proposal for a new web API
similarly, i've felt like im not on the same page as many of you in these discussions and i think it is a result of the same thing. i have been seeing this repo as if it is the proposal for a new web API (navigator.provideContext or whatever we call it).
meanwhile, others seem to see it as a much higher level thing, of how browsers as a whole can interact with agents.
if it is the latter, that suggests we could end up writing many proposals over time which collectively make up "web MCP". that makes sense but isn't how this repo is currently positioned or structured - right now we seem to have a big mixture of both. Some issues focus on the web API, some focus on high level questions beyond that.
if it is a group of proposals, maybe we should at least organise the repo to make that clear? a proposals/ directory which has the web API in there clearly defined in isolation. Then update the README To make that very clear.
Thank you for sharing your feedback openly. The group's plan is to transition from the WebMCP explainer stage (less structured by design, as to allow exploration) to a Community Group spec draft stage (more structured). That transition should address this issue. This is on the agenda for today, subject to time.
We have now established the spec draft baseline in #64 and the group has started to formalize the proposal into spec language and define the scope clearly as requested. Things will be incomplete for a while as we transition, but we'll get there. I will close this issue to move discussion to topic-specific ones. Thank you for pushing the group to complete this task in time.
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anssiko commentedon Dec 11, 2025
Thank you for sharing your feedback openly. The group's plan is to transition from the WebMCP explainer stage (less structured by design, as to allow exploration) to a Community Group spec draft stage (more structured). That transition should address this issue. This is on the agenda for today, subject to time.
anssiko commentedon Jan 30, 2026
We have now established the spec draft baseline in #64 and the group has started to formalize the proposal into spec language and define the scope clearly as requested. Things will be incomplete for a while as we transition, but we'll get there. I will close this issue to move discussion to topic-specific ones. Thank you for pushing the group to complete this task in time.