WebMCP on your website WebMCP lets a website tell AI agents exactly what it can do. Every SpaceClub site has it built in. Here's how localAI uses it.

WebMCP on your website

WebMCP lets a website tell AI agents exactly what it can do. Every SpaceClub site has it built in. Here's how localAI uses it.

More and more people ask an AI to find things for them. Usually the AI has to guess what's on a page by reading it like a person would, and it often gets it wrong.

WebMCP is a new way for a website to offer tools to AI agents running in the browser. Instead of guessing, the agent asks the site: what can you do? The site answers with a list of tools, such as list the events, search the site, or open a page.

Built into SpaceClub

Every SpaceClub site has WebMCP turned on. It offers tools for the site's own content, like listing upcoming events and searching pages and posts, and a /webmcp-data.json file with the same information.

There's nothing to set up. Add an event in Spacedash, and the next build tells AI agents about it.

localAI: an AI chat that uses it

The localAI website shows what this makes possible. Few browsers can use WebMCP tools yet, so localAI added localAI Chat, a small AI model that runs inside the browser with WebLLM. Nothing is installed and nothing leaves your computer.

Small models don't know anything about localAI, and they'll happily make things up. So the chat asks the site first:

  • "What's on next?" calls the list-events tool and answers with the real date and place
  • "How do I join the group chat?" calls get-community-links and gives the real links
  • "Take me to the events page" calls go-to-page and goes there

The answers come from the site, not the model's memory.

Why it matters for your site

As AI agents become part of how people browse, sites that describe themselves clearly will be the ones that get used properly. With SpaceClub, yours already does.

Add it to any website

Not on SpaceClub? We've written a guide your AI assistant can follow. Give it this: "Read https://talkingsites.org/webmcp/ and follow it to add WebMCP tools to my website." The guide explains it for people too.

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