Architecture5 min read
Designing APIs for AI Agents: Idempotency, Machine-Readable Errors, and 202 + Webhooks
Most APIs were designed for two consumers: a human reading documentation and code a human wrote once. An AI agent is neither. It discovers endpoints at runtime from a machine-readable description, fills in arguments by pattern-matching field names, retries automatically when something fails, and…
By JeffDev.to AI
Read the full story
Originally published by Dev.to AI on Oct 3, 2026.
Comments
Sign in to join the discussion.