One day the web will have a federated way to link to functionality. I swear we will. For those who know me, you can tell that I’ve been thinking about Web Intents again… a lot. If you don’t know me, Web Intents was a 2012 attempt to give the web a vocabulary for “I want to do X, what site can help me?”. Share, edit, pick, save-for-later, buy. And a way for sites to ask for a link to a site that matched their intent. It was basically Android Intents for the web. It got pulled. I’ve written about what happened to Web Intents and again when I was reinventing Web Intents.
Maximiliano Firtman on Twitter / X
Chrome 146 includes an early preview of WebMCP, accessible via a flag, that lets AI agents query and execute services without browsing the web app like a user.Services can be declared through an imperative navigator.modelContext API or declaratively through a form. pic.twitter.com/UaUplZ8Q28— Maximiliano Firtman (@firt) February 9, 2026
WebMCP | AI on Chrome | Chrome for Developers
WebMCP has two APIs that allow browser agents to take action on behalf of the user.
Intent to Ship: Update Device Memory API limits
Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
NEAR Intents | Simplifying Web3 Interactions
NEAR Intents let users and AI agents define what they want to do—NEAR handles the rest. A new framework for seamless, multichain execution without complexity, powered by solvers and Chain Signatures.
Declare and resolve website links for at:// URIs. A demo of the me.byjp.atproto.deeplink lexicons.
feynon/intent-router-blueprint
A hybrid LLM intent routing system for secure agent orchestration.
ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward | Steve Bate
The ActivityPub Client-to-Server (C2S) protocol was envisioned as a cornerstone of the decentralized social web, along with the Server-to-Server (S2S) protocol. Standardized by the W3C in 2018, C2S defines how user-facing applications, such as mobile apps or web clients, and bots should interact with social servers using Activity Streams 2.0 and JSON-LD. In theory, it ... Read more
The Web Needs a Context Layer Built on a Shared Protocol
Context is a new, developing layer of the internet, write Mallory Knodel, Evan Friedman and Brad Friedman.
Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first, so photosynthesis is no longer asymmetric. It is symmetric competition.
Intent to Prototype: Isolated Web Apps
https://github.com/reillyeon/isolated-web-apps/blob/main/README.md
Protocol Handler Registration via Browser Extensions – make everything intensely
Custom URL schemes have traditionally served as an integration bridge between the browser and external capabilities. Schemes such as mailto: and tel: allow navigation to trigger actions beyond ordinary HTTP resource retrieval. The HTML Standard formalizes this mechanism through the Custom Scheme Handlers API, which enables websites to register themselves as handlers for specific URL schemes.