How Commerce.com and Cloudflare are getting storefronts ready for AI agents
Enter WebMCP: a browser standard from Google that gives AI agents structured tools on a page, like searchproducts.
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Key points
- AI can write code and pass the bar exam, but it still struggles to buy a pair of shoes online.
- Most agents that shop for someone today work from a site’s HTML — they look at the page, guess which button does what, click, and try again when they get it wrong.
- Because WebMCP is still an experimental proposed browser standard in early preview, it’s currently available behind experimental Chrome flags (chrome://flags/#enable-webmcp-testing), in Chrome Origin Trials, in some agentic browsers, and across developer environments like Cloudflare Kitesurf.
- Commerce.com, a flexible commerce platform built for the age of AI, already uses Cloudflare to run their almost 100,000 domains.
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- [1]How Commerce.com and Cloudflare are getting storefronts ready for AI agentsCloudflare Blog: AI · Oct 21, 01:00 PM
Enter WebMCP: a browser standard from Google that gives AI agents structured tools on a page, like search_products.
AI can write code and pass the bar exam, but it still struggles to buy a pair of shoes online.
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