API Evangelist
Mintlify Put Signup in the CLI When It Was Already in the Protocol
Zoom Gets the Headless Half of Programmatic Onboarding Right
Agents Will Make Everything You Left Undone Visible
Inside the Agent-Readiness Score
Atlassian Makes You Click Through a Console Before an Agent Can Touch Jira
Standards and Artifacts: Why the Agentic Turn Rewards What Australia’s Banks Already Ship
Your Agentic Programmability Investment Is an API Foundation Investment
Bringing Coherence to Sprawling Enterprise API Estates
Filling In the Middle Ground on AI with Emma Kriskinans of Tyk
What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like When Discord Won’t Let You Register an App
Every MCP Server Bakes In the Provider’s Motivations
The Self-Hosted Seed Is The Next Business Model
Your Agent Should Run Its Own Observability Stack
Low Composite, High Agent-Readiness: The Australian Banking Paradox
What Is Commercial Open Source, Really?
What Medusa Teaches Every MCP Author About Feedback
Next MCP API Design
ClaudeBot Read My Entire Catalog in a Single Day
HubSpot Has the OAuth, but Not the Onboarding
The Federation Aspect MCP Needs
Bringing Order To The Agentic Realm With The CLI Agent Spec
The Six Facets Behind the API Evangelist Composite Score
The MCP Roadmap Is An API Roadmap
We Will Never Ask an LLM for a Nutrition Value
Notion Hands You The Token, But Only After You Click
OpenAPI Overlays for Test Fixtures and Mock Generation
In Australian Banking, the API Is a Commodity — CDR Made It Table Stakes
I Counted the Arazzo Runners by Reading READMEs
Shopify Lets You Script the Token, Not the App
The APIs That Charge Per Call And The APIs That Let You Rehearse Are Two Different Sets
A Summary of Version 0.12 of the Kin Score
Four Typical Responses from Providers to the Kin Score
A Stolen Token Is Useless. A Stale One Still Works.
Agents Can Curl, So Why Do I Need an MCP Server?
I Scored 532 Data Model Standards on Whether They Modernized
OpenAPI Overlays for Brownfield Correction Without Upstream Access
A Format Can Sink Below The Waterline
Slack Can Actually Mint App Credentials From a Script, If You Survive the Bootstrap
There Is Finally an OpenAPI for MCP Servers, and It Is Called mcpdesc
Your Bot Protection Is Refusing The Agents You Are Courting
Where I Am At With Forking Spectral
The MCP Layer Is Being Built Outside The Contract
Seventy-One APIs Will Let You Try A Call Without Committing It
The Six Quality Bands of the API Evangelist Rating System
The Throwaway API and the Foundational API
Macro Level Agentic Storytelling
GitHub Quietly Built the Onboarding Flow Everyone Else Is Missing
OpenAPI Overlays for Compliance and Redaction Profiles
Your Internal Docs Need the Same Scoring Discipline as Your Public APIs
What the Trend Reports Found in the Regulatory Layer
What the Trend Reports Found in the Standards Layer
APIs Are 100x More Important Than Five Years Ago, and Still Uncool
MCP Wrote Itself the Deprecation Policy It Has Not Written for You
Agent Skills as a Bridge Between Engineering and Product
Twilio Is What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like When a Company Means It
OpenAPI Overlays for Deprecation and Migration Choreography
The Tools That Actually Execute Your Arazzo Workflows
Why Isn’t the Surface Area of a VC Portfolio Programmable?
A Playbook for Europe: eIDAS, Sovereignty, and a Shared GovTech Ecosystem
Even Stripe Makes You Click a Button to Get an API Key
Every Ad On My Network Was Invisible To Agents
GraphQL as Connective Tissue
If We Publish Our API Documentation Our Competition Will Just Copy What We Do
About API Evangelist Papers
Agents Turn Broken Auth Into a Breach at Machine Speed
Swagger Was A Config File Until We Made It A Format
We Have Partner APIs, Not Public APIs – Well, Your Competition Has Public APIs
A Playbook for US Agencies: Emulating Germany’s API Authorization Approach
Akamai Can Mint Its Own Credentials, If You Already Have One
Context Engineering Is Governance
Does Your API Game Live Up to Your AI Hype?
OpenAPI Overlays for MCP and AI-Agent Enrichment
Markdown Became the Control Plane for AI
Your AI Bill Will Be Your Cloud Bill on Steroids
Does Your Sales Team Know How Your API Management Platform Ranks?
The Specification Layer, A New Weekly Newsletter
Cloudflare Hands You a Token, but Only If You Click Through the Dashboard First
OpenAPI Overlays for Monetization and Plan Tiering From One Spec
Kinde Has the Plumbing for Programmatic Onboarding, It Just Skips the Front Door
Students Cheating with AI, But Really the Tech Companies Are Cheating
One Vendor Publishes 3,546 Operations, The Legacy Travel Industry Publishes 29
I Measured Nine Linux Foundation Standards, and Alignment Is Now a Number
Doing GraphQL Is Governance by Default, Doing REST Is Not
Open at Launch, Walled Off by Series D
Show Your Work: Governing an API Standard with ADRs and Attacker Models
OpenAPI Overlays for Environment Promotion Across Dev, Staging, and Production
Stytch Already Built the Self-Serve Onboarding the Agentic Web Needs
The Tool Is One Implementation Among Many
Scoring The Secondary Market: Does The Hype Have An API?
Agents Don’t Magically Understand Your API
MCP Is Last-Mile Plumbing
The AI Licensing Market Is Visible in HTTP Status Codes
Trust in Protocols, Not Institutions: Transparency Logs for API Authorization
How Time Serves Ads to AI Agents
My Current Stance on How I Use Artificial Intelligence
Strip Out the University and This Is a Template
WorkOS Hands You a Dashboard Key, Then Lets the Agents Run
OpenAPI Overlays for Governance as an Artifact, Not Enforcement
Ping Identity and the Two Roads to a Programmatic Client
Control Moved From the Database to the API Gateway
Reducing API Sprawl Through API Management
Professors Became the AI Police
Universities Are Building AI Infrastructure Worth Having and Not Publishing the Contract
AWS Cognito Has the Credentials, Just Not the Front Door
I Rebuilt Their OpenAPI From Nine Web Pages. Just Publish It.
OpenAPI Overlays for Stripping Internal Endpoints Before You Publish
Who Decides? Policy-Based Authorization for Government APIs
Forking Is the Easy Part
Driving Towards Capabilities With API Tag Groupings
Most Published Agent Cards Are Not Actually A2A
Reducing API Sprawl Through Governance
The Best Way to Get Your API Project Approved Right Now Is to Call It AI
I Am Forking Spectral
What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like on Microsoft Entra ID
Never Trust the Token: DPoP and Sender-Constraining for Government APIs
The Dissonance of Reducing Cloud Spend and Going All In On AI
Enjoy the Wind at Your Back With AI While You Have It
ZotGPT: What It Looks Like When a University Owns Its AI Infrastructure
I Stopped Building the Onboarding Fix. Now I Keep Score.
OpenAPI Overlays for Batch and Reusable Modifications Across Many Specs
Outside-In View Is What Agents Will See
Auth0 Has the Right Endpoint and Still Makes You Ask Permission
Why API Sprawl Is Actually a Problem
Eighteen Tools for Open API Governance, One a Day
Governing What Agents Are Allowed to Consume
Okta Has the Endpoint for Programmatic Onboarding, It Just Hides the Door
OpenAPI Overlays for Visual Authoring Without Hand-Writing JSONPath
VCs Bet the Fund on Agents. Do Their Portfolios Have the Foundation?
On The Need for Artifacts That Describe API Products
A Universal Install Interface for MCP Servers
API Onboarding Without a Ticket: Dynamic Registration and Software Statements
How I Actually Use Agent Skills Across API Evangelist
Shadow, Rogue, and Zombie APIs
Four Countries, One Rubric: The State of Banking APIs in Australia, the UK, the US, and Canada
Giving Agents the Rules Before They Author, Not After
Gloo Platform Portal Has the Endpoints, but Self-Serve Lives or Dies on the Platform Team
How I Actually Use MCP Across API Evangelist
Conversational API Governance Your Agent Can Call
How the API Evangelist Rating System Differs From Other Agent-Readiness Scores
OpenAPI Overlays for Splitting Public and Internal Documentation
Profile, Don’t Invent: How Germany Chose OAuth 2.1 and FAPI 2.0
The Technical Roots of API Sprawl
A Federated API Governance Rule Registry
Investing in Your Internal Capacity When It Comes to AI
Tamper-Evident Certificates for API Governance
There Is No Platform for API Governance
Zuplo Has the Onboarding API, It Just Points It at the Wrong Door
Binding Governance Building Blocks Into One Navigable Graph
Bump.sh White-Labels the MCP Server, and Discovery Is the Next Problem
IBM API Connect Has a Real Consumer API, But Not a Real Front Door
Making Governance Exceptions Sanctioned, Owned, and Expiring
OpenAPI Overlays for Separation of Concerns When You Do Not Own the Spec
The Organizational Roots of API Sprawl
API Design As I Use the API, and MCP, and Skills
How Much of Your API Do Your Rules Actually Check?
APIs.io Is the First to License the API Evangelist Rating System
Why I Am Doubling Down on API Discovery and Governance
Germany Built the API Authorization Blueprint the Rest of Government Needs
Scoring Your Spectral CI Setup Against a Maturity Rubric
The Volatile and Selfish API Specification Landscape
What API Sprawl Actually Is
WSO2 API Manager Already Speaks Programmatic Onboarding
You Can Now Hire Me to Score Your API’s Agent Readiness
A Reference Pipeline for API Governance in CI/CD
OGC Quietly Built the API Reuse Register the Rest of Us Keep Talking About
OpenAPI Overlays for SDK Generation Prep: Fixing a Spec Before Codegen
Twilio Stress-Tests the Profiling Blueprint I Built on Stripe
Governance Memory in Practice: Running OWASP Across My Own APIs
Monetizing My APIs and MCP Without Walling Off the Map
A Grounded Spectral Ruleset for the OWASP API Security Top 10
Every Schema Property Has a History Worth Documenting
What Actually Goes Into Profiling Twilio for API Evangelist and APIs.io
The OpenAPI Governance Toolchain
What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like When the Gateway Is Tyk
Using Stripe as the Blueprint for a Deeper Profiling Process
On API Governance Needing Memory
A Registry of Adoptable, Provenanced Governance Rulesets
What Actually Goes Into Profiling Stripe for API Evangelist and APIs.io
VCs Screwed Themselves by Restricting Interoperability
From a Prose Style Guide to a Grounded Spectral Ruleset
Gravitee Gets Closer Than Most to Programmatic API Onboarding
OpenAPI Overlays for Adding Tool-Specific Content Without Polluting the Spec
Turning Spectral Output Into a Report People Actually Read
Forging the Agent Layer of Your API
Postman Sells API Tooling but Still Makes You Click Generate API Key
Scoring the Reusability of Your API Estate
OpenAPI Overlays for Translating and Localizing One Canonical Spec
Standalone API Documentation Generated From APIs.json
A Browser-First Registry for the API Artifacts You Depend On
Most Teams Just Turned Spectral On and Stopped There
What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like Inside MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Stedi and EDI as Modern API Workflows
A Browser-First Governance Validator for Your API Specs
Availity and the X12 Administrative Workflows
Put Governance Where the Agent Can Reach It
What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like When the App Is Really a Subscription
Building the Tooling for Consumer API Governance
IBM API Connect Governs the Whole Lifecycle With Spectral
OpenAPI Overlays for Filtering One Spec Into Public, Partner, and Internal Audiences
Ribbon Health and the Provider Directory Workflow
API Governance Is 75% People Work
DrChrono and the Clinical Day as Workflows
API Reviews and Provenance: Accountability Over Enforcement
AWS API Gateway and the Self-Serve Onboarding It Refuses to Offer
Bringing Legacy Standards Into the Modern API Age
Medplum and FHIR as a Developer Backend
We Governed APIs for the Builders. Now Govern Them for the Consumers.
One Button, Every MCP Client
When a Capability Stays Too Close to the Interface
Metriport and the Asynchronous Document Query
OpenAPI Overlays for Improving Developer Experience: Enriching a Thin, Code-Generated Spec
Shifting Left Is the Whole Game
Making API Reusability Measurable
What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like When the Door Is the Cloud Console — Apigee
CI/CD Pipelines Make Governance Consistent
Health Gorilla and the Lab Order to Result Loop
If You’re Using Spectral, It Is Now Gathering Data About You — Opt Out
What 36 Providers Taught Me About Programmatic API Onboarding
The Consumer Decides the Gateway: API Governance at the Consumption Layer
MCP for Spectral Governance: Make Your API Rules Conversational
Arazzo Workflows Are Your New Integration
Cerner Oracle Health and the SMART on FHIR Sequence
Govern in the IDE, Where the Work Happens
The Linux Foundation Is the Home of Our API Specifications, and They Should Work Together
Canvas Medical and the Shape of an EHR FHIR Workflow
Git Is Your Governance Source of Truth
Kong Konnect Has Two Front Doors and Neither One Is the One I Want
Design-First or Code-First: Pick, and Know the Cost
Mapping Particle Health Record Retrieval as Arazzo Workflows
Understanding the Way Things Are
Spectral Rules: Machine-Readable Enforcement
Policies and Style Guides: The Why Above Your Rules
Building the Tooling for Consumer API Governance
Revisiting OpenAPI Extensions Alongside APIs.json
JSON Schema Governs the Shape of Your Data
The Many Use Cases for OpenAPI Overlays
Tyk and the Quiet Superpower of Extending OpenAPI
I Do Not Believe There Is One Tool or Approach to Solve API Governance
OpenAPI Is the Unit of API Governance
OpenAPI Overlays Tooling Support Across Open-Source and Commercial Services
Consumer API Governance in an Agentic World
Standalone JSON Schemas, Overlaid for Every Purpose
Start by Mapping Your API Landscape
OpenAPI Overlays Let One Products API Speak Four Languages
The Fundamentals of API Governance
The Real API Design Struggle Continues with MCP
There is a Real Bill Associated With Offloading API Design This Round
Google Makes the Interactions API the Front Door to Gemini
SoundCloud Shows What Programmatic API Onboarding Should Look Like
MCP Discovery & Governance
Ory Talos Puts API Key Management Back in Your Hands
The Architecture Behind 10,000 API Providers
Your Diverse API Toolbox
History of API Evangelist
API Value Exchange
Industrial Manufacturing APIs and the AI Integration Gap
The APIs of the World’s Top Universities — 634 of Them, and Most Are Library Plumbing
Obtaining the Control Over Your LinkedIn Data That You Desire
Automated Agent Onboarding Is a Naftiko Capability, Not a Gateway Feature
Where Is the Fortune 1000 at When It Coms to AI — Here Are the Receipts for All 989 of Them
Only Four API Providers Publish a Real .well-known/api-catalog Right Now
Stripe Through the Lens of API Evangelist
API Evangelist Scores 83% Agent-Ready — And the Last 17% Doesn’t Apply
Who In The API Evangelist Network Has an MCP Server
Signals, Stories, and Search
Making the API Evangelist Network Agent-Readable
The Bullshit Levels Came Down at APIDays NYC
83 of the Fortune 100 Have a Developer or API Portal
Seeing MCP
A Roundup of US Federal Agencies and Their APIs
Wrestling With API Complexity
Publishing Plans, Rate Limits, and FinOps for 3,837 API Providers
Artificial Intelligence Choosing My Tools and Services
Within the Enterprise Mindset There Are No Solutions, Just Stories
We Standardized the API. We Didn’t Standardize the Application.
A Bridge Between Human and AI on Your Documentation
With API Knowledge Comes Great Power
Documentation Page Level AI Copilot and Human Bridge
Guardrails, Not Gates: Supreet Nagi on Taming the API Jungle
The Business and Politics of Platform Status Page Details
Learning About Standards via Cloudflare Radar AI Insights
That List of 1000 APIs Does Not Do Me Much Good When I Just Need To Be Capable of Doing Something
An API Consumer Interoperability Mindset
The Next Wave of API Investments Will Be All About Experience
Questioning Our API Governance Reality
You See a Spec, I See a Common Language, and a Common Understanding
My /me API Using Naftiko
Not a Single API Evangelist Post in March
The Promise of a New Specification
What Is Your Beef With JSON Schema?
There is a Lot of Knowledge and Wisdom Packed Into Speakeasy’s Agent Skills
Where Is Governance (Guidance) Going?
How Does a Capability Come to Life?
What is the Diff Between Bruno Collection and OpenCollection
Dispatches From The Frontlines at Moltbook
Dispatches From The Frontlines at Moltbook
Why Do I Need Agents When I Have Requests, CRON Jobs, and Events?
Organizing Signals Into a Platform Definition with Operations Organized by Role
MCP Server for Microcks Mocking and Testing
Weekly API Evangelist Conversations
A 3rd-Party Notion API Sandbox to Provide a Safer Agent Sandbox
Agents. It Is All APIs. Nothing Has Changed
Governance Rules as Guardrails in a Strongly Typed Journey
Baseline OpenAPI Rules For Governance of 3rd-Party APIs
Exploring What Schema Tools Are Available
My Avalara API Review Provides a Benchmark for Modern API Operations
My Rabbit Warren of JSON Expressions, References ($ref), Queries, or Pointers
What Are the Application and Interface Specification Priorities?
A New Year for API Evangelist
A New Year for API Evangelist
I Am Proud To Introduce You To Naftiko
Saying Things Are Broken is Broken
My Avalara API Review Provides a Benchmark for Modern API Operations
Capabilities Are Everything You Need To Integrate With AI
Capabilities Are About Having An Honest Conversation About Control
The Web and APIs Weren’t Built for Autonomous Agents, They Were Built For Humans
API Discovery Will Need To Be Contextual and Ephemeral
MCP is a Valid Tactical Response
MCP is a Valid Tactical Response
OpenAPI Extensions to Generated What You Need for AI Integration
OpenAPI Extensions to Generate What You Need for AI Integration
Schema-Validated, Rules-Guided, and Policy-Driven Experiences
As a Startup You Should Not Be Consulting
Why Drift Is Ubiquitous
Applying Domain-Driven Driven Design to Integration and Consumption
How This Moment Will Shake Out
What is a Capability?
How This Moment Will Shake Out
Conversations With Enterprise Product and Engineering Teams Has Given Me More Empathy About This Moment In Tech
Selfish Standardization Using JSON-LD for Job Postings
Trust is the Secret Ingredient Missing in API Discovery
Minimizing Ambiguity in Business Alignment Using APIs
The Intersection of API Rate Limits, Plans & Pricing, and Marketplace Working Things Out
Solutions That Speak To Your Tactical Pain While Expanding and Scaling Your Strategic Pain
There Is Only API Consumption
API Evangelist & Fourcast Media Are Partnering To Bring Kin Lane and LeTroy Gardner Together Again For A New API Podcast
Can We Have a Conversation About API Discovery, Integration, and Consumption?
I Will Be Joining Naftiko as the Chief Community Officer