{
 "id": "w3c-webmcp-cg-report",
 "name": "WebMCP (Draft Community Group Report, Web Machine Learning CG)",
 "org": "W3C",
 "kind": "specification",
 "tier": "context",
 "status": "Draft Community Group Report, dated 9 October 2026 on the page read on 2026-10-13 (2026-09-30 on 2026-10-03), no numbered version; on 2026-10-08 PR #338, \"Remove declarative API from spec\", was merged (the specification now focuses on the imperative registerTool() API); the draft Agentic Web Working Group (WG) charter lists WebMCP as its normative deliverable.",
 "status_as_of": "2026-10-13",
 "relevance": "Draft: \"The WebMCP API enables web applications to provide JavaScript-based tools to AI agents.\"; an editor wrote on 2026-09-25 that identity and delegation proposals \"are beyond the scope of the simple WebMCP API\".",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261008115750/https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/",
   "read": "2026-10-02",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/issues/257",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261009024837/https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/issues/257",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "third-party"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/pull/338",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261008115307/https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/pull/338",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "decision"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/670",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261014063001/https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/670",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "third-party"
  }
 ],
 "overlaps": [
  "w3c-agenticweb-wg",
  "ietf-webbotauth",
  "kyapay",
  "browsers-webmcp"
 ],
 "seams": [
  "S3"
 ],
 "verified": "2026-10-13",
 "evidence": {
  "read": "On 2026-10-13: the draft report page and the latest commits of the repository (to 2026-10-09), PR #338 and issues #65, #192 and #257.",
  "not_read": "Minutes pages, section 6.2 of the specification, items #165, #204, #255, #272, #273 and #312 in full."
 },
 "open_proposals": [
  {
   "what": "Proposes to \"Stand up a new community group for agent-assisted user agents (name to be decided).\"",
   "author": "a participant (WebKit standards-positions)",
   "date": "2026-06-17",
   "state": "closed",
   "url": "https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/670#issuecomment-4729132384",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261014063001/https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/670#issuecomment-4729132384"
  }
 ],
 "url": "https://frmoretto.github.io/agentic-standards-map/entries/w3c-webmcp-cg-report.html",
 "source_url": "https://github.com/frmoretto/agentic-standards-map/blob/a1ae242918902e0768e0e6a79bd2bffc4ac5cfa3/entries/w3c-webmcp-cg-report.yaml",
 "licence": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}