Google Home MCP lets Antigravity, Claude, OpenClaw, & more control your smart home - 9to5Google

Google today announced “Home MCP” to let your personal AI agent interact with your smart home devices via the Model Context Protocol.

This allows Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, and any other agent that supports calling MCP tools to “interact with all of the devices and event history in the Google Home ecosystem.”

This includes Google Nest cameras and doorbells, Nest Thermostats, Matter light bulbs, and beyond. Example use cases include:

Google frames this as giving your agent “real-world physical context—allowing it to analyze and answer questions about home activity, summarize camera footage across rooms, manage devices on your behalf, or even create your own smart home dashboards using everyday language.”

On the security and privacy front, Home MCP “enforces rate limits and safety protections, such as prohibiting sensitive actions like unlocking doors.” Google cautions about how: