We spend countless hours navigating poorly designed interfaces, searching for information, and completing tedious tasks like digital form filling—fighting with systems that should serve us, not consume our time. What if we could eliminate these frustrating interfaces and processes entirely?

This talk touches on a future where autonomous systems, powered by standardised protocols, transform how we interact with digital services and fundamentally reshape the human web experience. Instead of humans adapting to clunky UIs and processes, intelligent agents handle these tasks by directly communicating with each other.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is leading this transformation by providing a standardised way to provide AI models with contextual information, allowing them to act on our behalf. Using a real-world example, we'll explore MCP's core primitives and demonstrate how http4k's new MCP SDK fuses these concepts with the functional, clean, and testable APIs that http4k is known for.

You'll see how a task that once required multiple manual steps becomes automated through agentic interfaces built with just a few simple functions—all while maintaining http4k's philosophy of zero magic and exceptional testability.

This isn't just about efficiency—it's about the next wave of technological change that could fundamentally transform our relationship with digital systems, and reshape how we build services that genuinely help our users rather than frustrate them.

This talk is a mix of theory, code and live demo.

Although any code is Kotlin specific, this is secondary to the concepts so should be applicable to any attendee who wants to leverage MCP in their stack!