Google opens smart home to third-party AI agents via MCP, including Claude
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-09-17
Google launched Google Home MCP, letting any MCP-supporting third-party AI agent — including Claude, Google Antigravity, Hermes and Open Claw — securely control and monitor all devices and event history in the Google Home ecosystem, per product manager Taylor Lehman. Agents can act on the user's behalf and analyze home data via the standardized Model Context Protocol.
More from coding & agent
- Microsoft's MemSteer turns unlabeled user histories into agent memory supervision — MicrosoftResearch · 2026-11-02
- She fired herself from her own Instagram: AI agent runs the account, views up 82.3% — heyshrutimishra · 2026-11-02
- Sourcegraph: AI writes code faster than teams can review it, driving more outages — AI Engineer · 2026-11-02
- Tsinghua & Microsoft's HarnessMM cuts agent token use by up to 87.93% while raising success rate — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-11-02
- GitHub launches Agent HQ: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google coding agents in Copilot — emmanuelvivier · 2026-11-02
- DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, a coding agent that reads team chats to minimize human input — emmanuelvivier · 2026-11-02