Your APIs Are Not Agent-Ready: How to Test What AI Agents Actually Do
summary
Claims that conventional API tests miss agent-driven gaps, shows concrete failures: five failure types (bad contract hallucinations, rate‑limit drift, nondeterministic workflows, retry cost spirals, auth leakage), a traced load case where an endpoint loads in 130 seconds while agents add latency, and a reproducible test approach using manual, automated and load testing plus tracing to capture observability and idempotency. Delivers a practical 11–12‑point checklist (docs, enriched errors, retry limits, filters, audit logs) to make APIs agent‑ready.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to API agent readiness
- 2:56Five API failure types for agents
- 8:56Agent behavior on failures
- 12:03Tracing agent actions
- 14:49API agent readiness checklist
- 24:10Observability and error recovery
- 27:06Testing with production failures
- 31:22Q&A
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