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hm. API stands for Application Programming Interface. Which IMO is not same as Application Agentic Interface.. similar to how it is not Application's Human Interface. Maybe closer than that.

But, parsing documentation? And, believing it blindly? hah. Maybe ressurect Semantic web as well..

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> Maybe ressurect Semantic web as well

This gave me a chuckle. I believe the current hype term along this line is "ontologies".

Yeah interestingly API's in their current form are rarely very good for agents. In many cases tools like Operator using a virtual browser and screenshotting are better for agent interactions than API specs.

This shows we need to build better approaches to agent interactions that are not at the level of "run a virtual browser", but that encodes much more of the workflows available than raw API's do today.

for anything more complex than single throw-this-data-there, probably a wizzard-like workflow would be better. The client initiates it but then the server leads it instead of being 100% passive, e.g. "enter (date|name)" >Then> "enter (amount & currency)" >Then> whatever-else. i am not sure if any such thing exists as protocol; usual REST APIs are just an alphabet with client-driven alphabet-punching that can be combinatorially applied without any order ; the server may very well know the correct order but cannot elegantly enforce it.

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