For years, APIs were built with a clear consumer in mind: a human developer on another team who could interpret documentation, handle inconsistencies, and ask questions in a shared Slack channel. But AI agents are now emerging as primary API consumers, and they lack the intuition or “tribal knowledge” to fill in the gaps of a poorly designed contract.
And this creates an urgent, strategic problem for technology leaders. The internet is full of tutorials that explain the technical steps to generate a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server…