Show HN: AI agents are bad at API integrations – we fixed it

Hi, we're Sohaib and Hannan from APIMatic. We've been building tools to help Developers integrate with APIs for 5+ years at APIMatic. We're now trying to help AI agents do the same.

This started from a conversation at PayPal DevDay 2025. The PayPal developer experience team were monitoring developers using AI agents to integrate PayPal APIs, and the agents kept reaching for outdated docs and deprecated SDK versions, often falling back to training data instead of reading the current API documentation.

We tested this ourselves with Cursor. Across multiple iterations, 87% of runs fetched outdated reference docs using web search, and 13% of implementations used a deprecated SDK version.

What we built:

We built Context Plugins - given an OpenAPI spec, we generate SDKs and a remote MCP server that exposes language-specific API context (auth flows, method signatures, error handling, pagination, integration patterns from the API team) packaged and optimised for LLM consumption. Instead of guessing from training data or relying on web search, coding agents get the correct SDK methods and integration patterns they need to build API integrations.

We've just launched in Beta with PayPal: https://developer.paypal.com/serversdk/java/getting-started/...

We benchmarked Context Plugins on two codebases, nopCommerce (a mature ASP.NET e-commerce platform) and Microsoft's eShop reference app, and saw 2x faster integration time, 65% lower token usage, and near-zero hallucinations.

Getting started:

- We've published ready-to-use Context Plugins for Spotify, Twilio, Slack, and other APIs; the Show HN link takes you to our product showcase with one-click install for popular AI agents.

- Want to generate Context Plugins from your own spec? Sign up for a free 2-week trial on the APIMatic website, no credit card required.

- Want to dive deeper into the data? Read more here https://www.apimatic.io/product/context-plugins/case-study

We're really looking forward to hearing the community's feedback on this. We're particularly interested in hearing from API platform teams seeing this problem with their users, developers who've fought this problem manually or anyone who's tried building something similar.

What are we missing? What would make this more useful?