First testing of WebMCP - Part 2!

[Raymond Camden]

Ok, I kinda brought this up in my first post but... I'm really confused about how we test this. From what I know, Chrome's built-in Gemini support can't use the tools.

And if I try to use it via the Gemini API and url tools, it fails as well. I tried testing it in AI Studio as well, and got:

"I attempted to look at the URL you provided, but my browsing tool is only able to see the static HTML of the page before any JavaScript loads the main content[1]."

I know about the excellent Chrome extension, but *outside* of that, where should it this work?

[François Beaufort]

On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 12:02 AM Raymond Camden <raymon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, I kinda brought this up in my first post but... I'm really confused about how we test this. From what I know, Chrome's built-in Gemini support can't use the tools.

That's right.

 

And if I try to use it via the Gemini API and url tools, it fails as well. I tried testing it in AI Studio as well, and got:

"I attempted to look at the URL you provided, but my browsing tool is only able to see the static HTML of the page before any JavaScript loads the main content[1]."

I know about the excellent Chrome extension, but *outside* of that, where should it this work?

It currently requires extensions with experimental WebMCP API support such as WebMCP - Model Context Tool Inspector or AgentBoard for instance.

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[Raymond Camden]

Gotcha - what is the plan for the future? I assume eventually we can test this in other ways? I don't really work with extensions myself. 

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