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Discussion on: Your API Wasn't Designed for AI Agents. Here Are 5 Fixes.

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klement Gunndu

Good question about the 'shadow API layer' risk. In practice, Content-Negotiation headers (Accept: application/agent+json vs application/json) let you serve both from the same endpoint — same backend logic, different serialization. The retryable field and cursor-based pagination are improvements that benefit human consumers too, so they're not really agent-only overhead.