Show HN: MCP is for tools. A2A is for agents. What's for websites?
Source: HackerNews AI Launches
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Published: 2026-04-12T05:30:17.000Z
HTTP lets agents fetch pages. Cloudflare's Markdown for Agents lets them fetch more efficiently. MCP (Anthropic) connects agents to developer-defined tools. A2A (Google) lets agents delegate to other agents. But there's a missing layer: how does an agent execute a multi-step task on a website -- add to cart, fill a form, complete a checkout - with the site owner's consent and visibility?Today's agents either scrape (no consent, no structure) or the site builds a separate API (expensive, doesn't cover the long tail). The web's original protocols assumed someone is looking at a screen. That assumption is breaking.We wrote a whitepaper mapping the full protocol landscape - Cloudflare's Pay Per Crawl and Web Bot Auth (RFC 9421), MCP, A2A, x402, llms.txt - and categorizing 5 distinct agent architectures (text-based, CUA/screenshot, DOM-based, API-calling, hybrid). Each needs different discovery, execution, and identity mechanisms. We think MCP, A2A, and execution protocols are complementary...
Original article: https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/agent-web-protocol-stack