Comment by jauntywundrkind

If you have a nice core architecture, you can just have WebMCP expose the core directly. Folks using GraphQL or some rpc system might be able to have an always in sync system automatically.

> so that Google can have a better agent that disintermediates my site.

This isn't disintermediated by or for Google.

The beneficiary here is the user, who gets to do what they want with their agent directly. I realize the idea of users doing what they want makes a lot of site owners nervous and scared, but RFC8890, the internet is for end users: site's attempts to coral and control users is interpreted as damage and routed around. This is a moral and ethical specification that actually helps users do what they want to do. Without Google or perhaps 3rd party scraping bots having to be involved.

> A lot of sites already expose chatbots,

Which very often are pretty dumb menu trees. Or sometimes have some data services or capabilities they can access. But is a crappy ultra-slim model going to make your users happy? Are they going to get what they want from this chatbot? Is it going to help them do what they want? Is it going to work with their calendering app or their email app, to get the job done? I think what you are saying is once again: fuck the user, take my crappy bad experience that sucks, and deal with it. No one likes chatbots. They like their agents.

> its trivial to rate limit and captcha on abuse detection

What if the user is there, but asks computationally complex questions? There's so so many examples of prompt hijacking, of break outs, of ways to fool AIs. Turns out that if you add some punct.uation or spa ces in words, prompt injection attacks tend to be far more effective. That's just one of thousands of things we've found for attacking LLMs.

The idea that you can just rate limit and captcha your way out of users using an agent you are hosting has to be a joke, right?

Nothing about anything you've said makes me think you have any respect or desire to let users have a good experience.