ai10 min read
Designing AI Agent Tools — Schema, Errors, and Idempotency for LLM Tool Use
Master the art of designing tools that LLMs can reliably use. Learn schema patterns, error handling, idempotency, and production tool registries.
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Api-design
8 articles
ai-agents14 min read
Designing Tools for AI Agents — Schemas, Descriptions, and Error Handling
Master tool schema design, description engineering, error handling, idempotency, and tool versioning to build AI agent tools that agents actually want to use.
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api-design6 min read
Designing APIs for AI Agent Consumers — Not Humans
Design APIs for AI agents: structured errors, idempotency keys, verbose context, bulk operations, OpenAPI specs, token-based rate limiting, and version stability.
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api-design7 min read
API Design Principles in 2026 — REST Maturity, Ergonomics, and What the Best APIs Get Right
Design APIs clients love: sensible defaults, cursor pagination, problem details errors, rate limit headers, and deprecation lifecycle.
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api-design6 min read
API-First Development in 2026 — Design, Mock, Validate, Then Build
API-first development means designing the contract before writing code. Here''s the workflow that actually works in 2026.
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bff10 min read
The Backend for Frontend Pattern — Why Your Mobile and Web Apps Need Different APIs
Implement a Backend for Frontend to aggregate services, optimize payloads per client, and simplify authentication, making each client experience seamless.
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idempotency8 min read
Idempotency in Distributed Systems — Making Any Operation Safe to Retry
Learn idempotency key design, idempotency stores with TTL, request fingerprinting, and CQRS deduplication patterns for safe retries.
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openapi10 min read
Design-First APIs With OpenAPI — Schema as Single Source of Truth
Design your API contract in OpenAPI before writing code, auto-generate types, mock servers, and validation, then detect breaking changes in CI.
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