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AI-Assisted Software DevelopmentOpenAImajorAug 25, 2026
Announced 25 August 2026.
When agents arrive through declared tools rather than the page, what your site exposes - and what it refuses - becomes a product decision rather than a search one.
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When agents arrive through declared tools rather than the page, what your site exposes - and what it refuses - becomes a product decision rather than a search one.
The integration tax on agent workflows keeps falling, but the useful half here is the decision rule — most teams reach for an MCP server where a fixed tool would be cheaper and more predictable.
Agents spending real money is arriving as a product feature, not a research demo — the quote-then-explicit-confirm-then-charge pattern here is the reference design to study before building any money-touching agent tool.
As agents start transacting across company boundaries, 'which agent is this and who answers for it' becomes infrastructure — this is one of the first serious open proposals for that layer.
The convenience of pasting a key into an MCP config is exactly how it leaks — keep secrets out of tool configs, and read a tool's description as untrusted input, not just documentation.