Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge" data-portal-copyright="Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/gemini-for-home.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/841156/ai-companies-aaif-anthropic-mcp-model-context-protocol">standardized Model Context Protocol</a>. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://developers.home.google.com/mcp/home">Google Home MCP</a> is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on your behalf. It "allows any AI agents that support MCP, including Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes or Open Claw, to securely work with all of the devices and event history in your Google Home ecosystem," Taylor Lehman, group product manager at Google Home &amp; Nest, said in a blog post.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">According to Lehman, Home MCP integ …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/996310/google-home-mcp-integration-agentic-ai-smart-home-price-release-date">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>