Designing APIs for AI Agent Consumers — Not Humans
Design APIs for AI agents: structured errors, idempotency keys, verbose context, bulk operations, OpenAPI specs, token-based rate limiting, and version stability.
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Design APIs for AI agents: structured errors, idempotency keys, verbose context, bulk operations, OpenAPI specs, token-based rate limiting, and version stability.
Design APIs clients love: sensible defaults, cursor pagination, problem details errors, rate limit headers, and deprecation lifecycle.
API-first development means designing the contract before writing code. Here's the workflow that actually works in 2026.
Design API gateways for rate limiting, JWT auth, request aggregation, and versioning. Learn gateway vs service mesh and Kong vs cloud vendors.
You have rate limiting. 100 requests per minute per IP. The attacker uses 100 IPs. Your rate limit is bypassed. Effective rate limiting requires multiple dimensions — IP, user account, device fingerprint, and behavioral signals — not just one.