Category: Extensibility

10 posts in the Extensibility category.

• Note This Week in Extensibility: OpenAI rallies vendors behind WebMCP, MCP maps its next spec cycle, and an argument for governing agents over sandboxing them

  Aug 28, 2026 Week of August 21–28, 2026: OpenAI and six web-platform companies launch a WebMCP hackathon, the Model Context Protocol publishes a roadmap for its next cycle, and Steve Yegge argues AI agents...

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• Note This Week in Extensibility: Chrome Web Store caps extensions per publisher, the blogosphere discusses LLM-generated user extensions, and YC startup Vendo launches on HN

  Aug 21, 2026 Week of August 14–21, 2026: Google caps how many extensions one publisher can list in the Chrome Web Store, an essay argues web apps should let users generate their own sandboxed extensions, and...

  Read more: This Week in Extensibility: Chrome Web Store caps extensions per publisher, the blogosphere discusses LLM-generated user extensions, and YC startup Vendo launches on HN
• Note This Week in Extensibility: Edge commits to removing Manifest V2, WebMCP adds Edge and Brave, Cloudflare previews a code-sandbox SDK

  Aug 14, 2026 Week of August 7–14, 2026: Microsoft Edge commits to removing Manifest V2, WebMCP origin trials reach Microsoft Edge and Brave, and Cloudflare ships a 1.0 preview of the SDK for running customer...

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• Note This Week in Extensibility: six vendors standardize agent-plugin bundles, Mozilla stays neutral on WebMCP, Atlassian opens Rovo to Forge apps

  Aug 07, 2026 Week of July 31 – August 7, 2026: six agent vendors publish a shared plugin-packaging standard, Mozilla files a neutral position on WebMCP that leaves the browser engines split, and Atlassian...

  Read more: This Week in Extensibility: six vendors standardize agent-plugin bundles, Mozilla stays neutral on WebMCP, Atlassian opens Rovo to Forge apps
• Note This Week in Extensibility: MCP ships its stateless spec with sandboxed app UIs, WebMCP starts tracking cross-engine support, WebExtensions weighs OAuth for MCP servers

  Jul 31, 2026 Week of July 24–31, 2026: MCP ships its 2026-07-28 specification with a stateless core and first-class extensions for sandboxed app UIs and async tasks, WebMCP stands up a cross-engine...

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• Note This Week in Extensibility: Wasmtime enables GC and exceptions by default, WebMCP specs in-page agent APIs, the WebExtensions group commits to shipping spec text

  Jul 24, 2026 Week of July 17–24, 2026: Wasmtime turns on WebAssembly GC and exceptions by default, WebMCP specifies how a user's in-page agent discovers and invokes a site's tools, and the W3C WebExtensions...

  Read more: This Week in Extensibility: Wasmtime enables GC and exceptions by default, WebMCP specs in-page agent APIs, the WebExtensions group commits to shipping spec text
• Note This Week in Extensibility: the Chrome Web Store bans two extension categories, Mozilla proposes a permission model for AI agents, Cloudflare runs customer code before signup

  Jul 17, 2026 Week of July 10–17, 2026: the Chrome Web Store bans prediction-market and AI-guardrail-circumvention extensions and narrows what any extension may collect, Mozilla proposes a browser-mediated...

  Read more: This Week in Extensibility: the Chrome Web Store bans two extension categories, Mozilla proposes a permission model for AI agents, Cloudflare runs customer code before signup
• Note This Week in Extensibility: MCP's spec locks down its auth and skills, WebMCP gets conformance tests, WebAssembly components bind to real-world interfaces

  Jul 10, 2026 Week of July 3–10, 2026: MCP's next spec locks down its client-auth and skill-distribution pieces before a July 28 launch, WebMCP gains a cross-vendor conformance suite, the WebAssembly Component...

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• Note This Week in Extensibility: MCP trims to a stateless core, extensions weigh softer permission prompts, ChatGPT adds plugin governance

  Jul 03, 2026 Week of June 26 – July 3, 2026: MCP ships beta SDKs for a leaner stateless spec, the WebExtensions group takes up softer permission prompts, and ChatGPT Business adds a plugin control plane for admins.

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• Note This Week in Extensibility: hyperscale sandboxes, extensions get a standards track, and prompt-to-plugin

  Jun 26, 2026 Week of June 19–26, 2026: AWS makes per-user code isolation a managed product, the WebExtensions API gets a chartered W3C Working Group, and Figma turns plugin authoring into a writing task.

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