Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Without clear signposting, an agent might miss your API entirely. If it does discover it, large language models (LLMs) may stumble with undocumented behaviors, hallucinate methods or flood your servers with random calls.</p><p>So, it’s important to get it right. Thankfully, strategies are emerging to position APIs for AI agents, from new standards to underground tricks. And, it’s more than just “get an MCP server” (though that’s a crucial step).</p><p>The jury’s out on what strategy will be most effective. So I’ve structured this guide to start with broadly agreed-upon best practices, then explore ones still taking shape. Most tips apply equally to public, partner and private APIs."</p><p><a href="https://thenewstack.io/how-to-prepare-your-api-for-ai-agents/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thenewstack.io/how-to-prepare-</span><span class="invisible">your-api-for-ai-agents/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIAgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAgents</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AgenticAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgenticAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/API" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>API</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAPI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/RAGs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RAGs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MCP</span></a></p>