API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
About API Evangelist
API Evangelist has worked for the last 15 years to make sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs, profiling public and private APIs and distilling down knowledge into a regular cadence of API storytelling, and weekly knowledge building sessions focused on schema, APIs, governance, operations, change, and evangelism.
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Secureframe Is Teaching Agents A Multi-Step Workflow
Secureframe uses one key, x-mcp-description, and what they put in it is the clearest example I have found of the thing OpenAPI has never been able to express. Here it is, on th...
LLM SEO: How Do You Nudge an LLM?
Now that API Evangelist is itself an MCP server, a question I used to think about abstractly has become very concrete and slightly personal: how do you nudge an LLM? For twenty ...
Kong Answered The Two Front Doors Post With A Door For Agents
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 ...
Amazon Opened Seller Central To Agents, And Kept The Storefront Closed
On Monday I wrote that Amazon wants agents to ask permission, but there is no form to fill in. Two days later Amazon stood on stage at its Accelerate conference in Seattle and o...
Zuplo Declares A Whole MCP Server Inside Its OpenAPI
Every agent extension I have written about in this series marks something that already exists in the document. Wistia names an operation for agents. Windmill flags one. Zoho gro...
Understanding Our Relationship With Technology
API Evangelist has been working to understand our relationship with Internet technology for the last fifteen years, but it has primarily been focused on understanding the producers of the technology, where moving forward I am more interested in understanding the consumers of not just APIs, but the applications they build on top of APIs.
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