Agent-ready APIs
This cluster covers what it takes to make your APIs consumable by AI agents — from MCP and tool calling to permission models, idempotency, and agent observability. As AI agents become a first-class API consumer, these guides give you the architecture patterns and design principles to build APIs that are ready for the agentic era.
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0 of 12 publishedAgent-Ready APIs: What They Are and How to Build Them
How to design, document, and expose APIs so AI agents can discover, understand, and use them reliably.
REST APIs vs MCP for AI Agents
When to expose capabilities as REST API endpoints vs MCP tools — and how to support both without duplication.
Tool Calling for LLMs
How function and tool calling works in modern LLMs, schema design best practices, and error handling.
OpenAPI Specs for AI Agents
How AI agents consume OpenAPI specs and how to optimize your spec for LLM-based API discovery and use.
Designing Idempotent Tools for AI Agents
Why AI agent tools must be idempotent and how to design APIs that won't cause problems when retried.
Permission Models for AI Agents
How to scope, limit, and audit what AI agents are allowed to do through your APIs — safely.
Building an Agent Platform
Architecture guide for building an internal platform that teams use to deploy and govern AI agents.
Memory and State Management for AI Agents
Patterns for managing conversation history, long-term memory, and shared state in agentic systems.
Multi-Agent Systems: Architecture and Patterns
How to design systems where multiple AI agents collaborate, delegate, and coordinate via APIs.
Agent Observability
How to trace, monitor, and debug AI agents in production: what to instrument and what to log.
Evaluation for AI Agents
How to measure agent quality, reliability, and accuracy in production environments systematically.
Becoming an Agentic Enterprise
What it means for an organization to become agentic, and the API infrastructure needed to support it.
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