API Evangelist
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I am the API Evangelist, making sense of the technology, business, policies, and the people of APIs since 2010 by surveying and assessing the public API landscape.
One of the things Z and I talked about in our recent conversation (that is Zdenek Nemec, of Apiary and Superface) was his engagement with younger engineers and…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-kids-whove-come-up-in-age-of-ai-will-approach-things-very-differently/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-kids-whove-come-up-in-age-of-ai-will-approach-things-very-differently/?utm_source=bluesky
September 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
One of the things Z and I talked about in our recent conversation (that is Zdenek Nemec, of Apiary and Superface) was his engagement with younger engineers and…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-kids-whove-come-up-in-age-of-ai-will-approach-things-very-differently/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-kids-whove-come-up-in-age-of-ai-will-approach-things-very-differently/?utm_source=bluesky
From Pandium, with some data from me: The Five Questions to Ask Before (and After) You Build an MCP Server. Teams don't ask "should we build an MCP server" once and move on. Some haven't built…
https://www.pandium.com/blogs/the-five-questions-to-ask-before-and-after-you-build-an-mcp-server
https://www.pandium.com/blogs/the-five-questions-to-ask-before-and-after-you-build-an-mcp-server
September 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
From Pandium, with some data from me: The Five Questions to Ask Before (and After) You Build an MCP Server. Teams don't ask "should we build an MCP server" once and move on. Some haven't built…
https://www.pandium.com/blogs/the-five-questions-to-ask-before-and-after-you-build-an-mcp-server
https://www.pandium.com/blogs/the-five-questions-to-ask-before-and-after-you-build-an-mcp-server
In my recent conversation with Zdenek Nemec, Z of Apiary and Superface fame, we talked about just how hard it is for agents to onboard with your APIs. I am painfully aware of this in my own work, but…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-we-are-all-in-on-agentic-shame-game/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-we-are-all-in-on-agentic-shame-game/?utm_source=bluesky
September 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
In my recent conversation with Zdenek Nemec, Z of Apiary and Superface fame, we talked about just how hard it is for agents to onboard with your APIs. I am painfully aware of this in my own work, but…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-we-are-all-in-on-agentic-shame-game/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-we-are-all-in-on-agentic-shame-game/?utm_source=bluesky
Zdenek Nemec has been thinking about machines integrating with APIs on their own longer than almost anyone I know — from API Blueprint at Apiary through Superface, which he built around the idea of…
https://conversations.apievangelist.com/store/2026-09-25-zdenek-nemec/?utm_source=bluesky
https://conversations.apievangelist.com/store/2026-09-25-zdenek-nemec/?utm_source=bluesky
September 25, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Zdenek Nemec has been thinking about machines integrating with APIs on their own longer than almost anyone I know — from API Blueprint at Apiary through Superface, which he built around the idea of…
https://conversations.apievangelist.com/store/2026-09-25-zdenek-nemec/?utm_source=bluesky
https://conversations.apievangelist.com/store/2026-09-25-zdenek-nemec/?utm_source=bluesky
Compare vendors on what they ship. https://apis.io/
September 25, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Compare vendors on what they ship. https://apis.io/
I have spent two days running our profiling pipeline hard against the backlog — a few hundred companies, each one probed the way an agent would probe it: fetch the front door, look for a…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-walls-companies-put-up-in-front-of-agents/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-walls-companies-put-up-in-front-of-agents/?utm_source=bluesky
September 25, 2026 at 12:26 PM
I have spent two days running our profiling pipeline hard against the backlog — a few hundred companies, each one probed the way an agent would probe it: fetch the front door, look for a…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-walls-companies-put-up-in-front-of-agents/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/25/the-walls-companies-put-up-in-front-of-agents/?utm_source=bluesky
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Our AI-Readiness CLI has new capabilities following community requests. You can now convert the scorecard to multiple formats HTML, SARIF, Markdown, JSON, etc. If you haven't run your APIs through it yet, now's a good time.
github.com/jentic/jenti...
github.com/jentic/jenti...
GitHub - jentic/jentic-api-scorecard: Score any OpenAPI document for AI-readiness. Command-line tool, GitHub Action and agent skills that implement the open JAIRF scoring framework, with HTML reports ...
Score any OpenAPI document for AI-readiness. Command-line tool, GitHub Action and agent skills that implement the open JAIRF scoring framework, with HTML reports and OpenAPI Overlay output. - jenti...
github.com
September 25, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Our AI-Readiness CLI has new capabilities following community requests. You can now convert the scorecard to multiple formats HTML, SARIF, Markdown, JSON, etc. If you haven't run your APIs through it yet, now's a good time.
github.com/jentic/jenti...
github.com/jentic/jenti...
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We've now assessed 10,000+ #APIs for AI-readiness. At that scale, patterns become hard to argue with. Most APIs weren't built to be integrated by machines that reason, and the data keeps confirming it. Check out the directory for more info.
Check out the directory: jentic.com/apis
Check out the directory: jentic.com/apis
Jentic API Directory — Connect AI Agents to Any API
Discover 10,000+ production-ready APIs organized by category. Connect your AI agents in minutes with validated OpenAPI specifications.
jentic.com
September 25, 2026 at 10:49 AM
We've now assessed 10,000+ #APIs for AI-readiness. At that scale, patterns become hard to argue with. Most APIs weren't built to be integrated by machines that reason, and the data keeps confirming it. Check out the directory for more info.
Check out the directory: jentic.com/apis
Check out the directory: jentic.com/apis
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The September edition of "Jentic Tech Talk" from @jentic.bsky.social is out.
There's some interesting content especially for those who care about API usage for agentic systems.
jentic.com/newsletter/t...
There's some interesting content especially for those who care about API usage for agentic systems.
jentic.com/newsletter/t...
Jentic Tech Talk — September 2026 | Newsletter
The newsletter for teams building AI that actually ships. Covering APIs, AI agents, open standards, and enterprise architecture.
jentic.com
September 25, 2026 at 10:49 AM
The September edition of "Jentic Tech Talk" from @jentic.bsky.social is out.
There's some interesting content especially for those who care about API usage for agentic systems.
jentic.com/newsletter/t...
There's some interesting content especially for those who care about API usage for agentic systems.
jentic.com/newsletter/t...
People do not ask their LLMs for `POST /v1/refunds`. They ask "can I give a partial refund instead of refunding the whole charge?" And when they hand the work to an agent they…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/overlays-that-speak-conversational-phrasing-for-every-operation/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/overlays-that-speak-conversational-phrasing-for-every-operation/?utm_source=bluesky
September 25, 2026 at 12:09 AM
People do not ask their LLMs for `POST /v1/refunds`. They ask "can I give a partial refund instead of refunding the whole charge?" And when they hand the work to an agent they…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/overlays-that-speak-conversational-phrasing-for-every-operation/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/overlays-that-speak-conversational-phrasing-for-every-operation/?utm_source=bluesky
Back in June I wrote that Kong Konnect has two front doors and neither one is the one I want. There was the platform admin API behind a personal access token, and there was the…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/kong-answered-the-two-front-doors-post-with-a-door-for-agents/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/kong-answered-the-two-front-doors-post-with-a-door-for-agents/?utm_source=bluesky
September 24, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Back in June I wrote that Kong Konnect has two front doors and neither one is the one I want. There was the platform admin API behind a personal access token, and there was the…
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/kong-answered-the-two-front-doors-post-with-a-door-for-agents/?utm_source=bluesky
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/kong-answered-the-two-front-doors-post-with-a-door-for-agents/?utm_source=bluesky
Spectral is an open-source OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema focused linting tool created by now acquired Stoplight. The tool is much like ES Lint for JavaScript, and Rubocop for Ruby, it spots mistakes in code. At first people…
https://apisyouwonthate.com/p/3ef67300-cc39-4202-820d-369106560e74/
https://apisyouwonthate.com/p/3ef67300-cc39-4202-820d-369106560e74/
September 24, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Spectral is an open-source OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema focused linting tool created by now acquired Stoplight. The tool is much like ES Lint for JavaScript, and Rubocop for Ruby, it spots mistakes in code. At first people…
https://apisyouwonthate.com/p/3ef67300-cc39-4202-820d-369106560e74/
https://apisyouwonthate.com/p/3ef67300-cc39-4202-820d-369106560e74/
Amazon Opened Seller Central To Agents, And Kept The Storefront Closed
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/amazon-opened-seller-central-to-agents-and-kept-the-storefront-closed/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/amazon-opened-seller-central-to-agents-and-kept-the-storefront-closed/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
September 24, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Amazon Opened Seller Central To Agents, And Kept The Storefront Closed
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/amazon-opened-seller-central-to-agents-and-kept-the-storefront-closed/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/amazon-opened-seller-central-to-agents-and-kept-the-storefront-closed/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
LLM SEO: How Do You Nudge an LLM?
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/llm-seo-how-do-you-nudge-an-llm/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/llm-seo-how-do-you-nudge-an-llm/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
September 24, 2026 at 3:10 PM
LLM SEO: How Do You Nudge an LLM?
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/llm-seo-how-do-you-nudge-an-llm/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/24/llm-seo-how-do-you-nudge-an-llm/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
Zuplo Declares A Whole MCP Server Inside Its OpenAPI
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/23/zuplo-declares-a-whole-mcp-server-inside-its-openapi/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/23/zuplo-declares-a-whole-mcp-server-inside-its-openapi/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
September 23, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Zuplo Declares A Whole MCP Server Inside Its OpenAPI
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/23/zuplo-declares-a-whole-mcp-server-inside-its-openapi/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/23/zuplo-declares-a-whole-mcp-server-inside-its-openapi/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
Centralized Decisions, Distributed Enforcement, And The Org Chart Behind The Gateway
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/23/centralized-decisions-distributed-enforcement/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/23/centralized-decisions-distributed-enforcement/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
September 23, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Centralized Decisions, Distributed Enforcement, And The Org Chart Behind The Gateway
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/23/centralized-decisions-distributed-enforcement/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
https://apievangelist.com/2026/09/23/centralized-decisions-distributed-enforcement/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog
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Codehooks: "Being able to answer questions about a webhook three weeks later is a different job, and it is the one that tends to get skipped." Kin Score 41.7, and idempotency is unlit on its own API.
https://apis.io/2026/09/22/codehooks-store-the-webhook-before-you-process-it/
https://apis.io/2026/09/22/codehooks-store-the-webhook-before-you-process-it/
September 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Codehooks: "Being able to answer questions about a webhook three weeks later is a different job, and it is the one that tends to get skipped." Kin Score 41.7, and idempotency is unlit on its own API.
https://apis.io/2026/09/22/codehooks-store-the-webhook-before-you-process-it/
https://apis.io/2026/09/22/codehooks-store-the-webhook-before-you-process-it/
What is the difference between a bot and an agent? apis.io/analytics/
September 21, 2026 at 8:28 PM
What is the difference between a bot and an agent? apis.io/analytics/
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A2A Agent Cards - Every provider on the APIs.io network serving a machine-readable agent discovery manifest at the A2A well-known path — graded against the A2A 1.0.0 specification rather than merely counted. apis.io/a2a/
September 21, 2026 at 1:05 PM
A2A Agent Cards - Every provider on the APIs.io network serving a machine-readable agent discovery manifest at the A2A well-known path — graded against the A2A 1.0.0 specification rather than merely counted. apis.io/a2a/
