CUPERTINO, July 2 -- For years, the workflow of AI-assisted web development has run on friction. A developer writes code with help from an AI assistant, moves the result into a browser, notices a rendering problem, switches back to the AI, describes what they see, and waits for a fix that may or may not address the right element. On Tuesday, Apple shipped a tool that eliminates most of those handoffs.

Safari Technology Preview 247, released by Apple's WebKit team, introduces the Safari MCP server, an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that allows AI agents to connect directly to a Safari browser window. The agent does not rely on the developer's description of the problem. It takes its own screenshot, reads the DOM, checks the ...