Web MCP isn’t a project I’m shipping a binary for. It’s a piece of the future I’m tracking and teaching. Episode 03 of The Agentic Engineer is the canonical reference: an 11-minute breakdown of where the web is going, and what it means for the people who build and test on top of it.
Agents want to use the web. Today they scrape, screenshot, and guess at DOMs: fragile, expensive, and on borrowed time as anti-bot defences harden. The web wasn't built for agents.
Web MCP, A2A, and UCP are three converging proposals that turn the web into a first-class agentic substrate: pages that publish their own tool schemas, agents that talk to other agents, and a unified protocol layer that makes 'use this website' as cheap as 'call this function'. Episode 03 walks through each, what they are, what's real today, what's vapourware, and what changes when this lands.
Episode 03 is the QA/test-automation community's introduction to this shift, because if every web page is a function call, the way we test software changes profoundly. The episode is the artefact; this card is the case study.