Google Home will soon let you swap Gemini for Claude, or another agent of your choice

Last October, the Google Home platform received a significant upgrade with Gemini in copious amounts. One of the key new functionalities is Ask Home, which lets users talk to the app using natural language queries, and Google is even working on the ability to include media to make searches even better. While that hasn’t rolled out yet, Google is now announcing a new extension to Google Home’s AI features, making it accessible through AI agents.

Today, Google is announcing support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Google Home. MCP is an open-source standard that allows AI models and chatbots to communicate with — and fetch data from — apps or services easily. The announcement, therefore, means you will soon be able to use a connector to access Google Home’s information through other client apps, including AI chatbots such as Claude, or use resources from Google Home in agentic workflows with Google’s Antigravity, OpenClaw, Hermes, or other AI agents.

That would be a relief to people who don’t quite enjoy Gemini on Google Home.

Beyond accessing information from various cameras or smart devices in your Google Home account, users will be able to monitor activity, control devices, and even build custom dashboards.

The Google Home MCP will be available in “early preview” over the coming weeks, only to users in the US with a Google Home Premium Advanced subscription. We’ll share more details once Google reveals them.