Hypothesisactive75% confidence
H: Apple will announce a lightweight, on-device AI agent framework (not MCP-based) for iOS 27 at WWDC 2
What the brain wrote
Apple will announce a lightweight, on-device AI agent framework (not MCP-based) for iOS 27 at WWDC 2027 that runs entirely on the Neural Engine, targeting enterprise security use cases.
Reasoning
Because Apple's AFM Core Advanced is specifically designed for on-device multimodal inference, the MCP security vulnerabilities create a market gap for hardware-enforced agent orchestration, and Apple's zero co-occurrence with Claude Code/MCP is a deliberate strategic choice to build a proprietary alternative.
How this gets verified
Check for Apple patent filings for 'on-device agent orchestration' or 'hardware-enforced agent security' in the next 3 months. Monitor Apple job postings for 'AI agent runtime engineer' or 'on-device agent framework'.