--- type: "newsletter_archive" title: "The API Changelog" handle: "apichangelog" owner: "Bruno Pedro (@bpedro)" canonical_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/archive" markdown_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/archive.md" archive_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/archive" chat_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/chat" articles_total: 53 articles_listed: 20 page: 1 page_size: 20 --- # The API Changelog ## Articles (page 1) Showing 20 of 53 published articles. Next page: https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/archive.md?page=2 - 2026-08-28 - [Why AI Agents Need Standard Observability](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/why-ai-agents-need-standard-observability) - There’s no way to know what an AI agent is doing. Not in the sense of knowing exactly the steps the agent took to complete a task, or to reach a failing state. There’s no backtrace, no information abo - 2026-08-21 - [Can MCP Servers Finally Get Their Own OpenAPI?](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/can-mcp-servers-finally-get-their-own-openapi) - You don't know what MCP servers do. Not until you connect and run the tools/list method. And MCP servers are everywhere now. Every AI product wants one, every API team is being asked to build one, and - 2026-08-14 - [Why AI Agents Don't Need Your Full API](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/why-ai-agents-don-t-need-your-full-api) - The easiest thing you can do is make your entire API available to AI agents. However, "by presenting the LLM with fewer, more relevant tools, we reduce confusion, allowing the model to focus better an - 2026-07-31 - [Designing APIs for the Input-Required World](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/designing-apis-for-the-input-required-world) - Agentic workflows don't work well with APIs. Web APIs are stateless by nature. A consumer makes a request, the API processes it, and returns a final response. The next request will be totally new. Unf - 2026-07-22 - [No One Understands What Your API Does](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/no-one-understands-what-your-api-does) - The day you were longing for finally arrived. You deployed the first version of your API. Being able to see the result of months of hard labor feels gratifying. Your API is up and running. No errors. - 2026-07-10 - [The Most Important Step in the API Lifecycle](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/the-most-important-step-in-the-api-lifecycle) - I learned the hard way how to design useless APIs. I still remember how I would spend most of the time making sure that my API was mapping the underlying data model. Or, how I would obsess over the de - 2026-06-26 - [An A2A Survival Guide for API Owners](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/an-a2a-survival-guide-for-api-owners) - Designing APIs for humans leads nowhere. What we once considered a best practice is now obsolete. Yes, human developers are good at understanding sometimes ambiguous API documentation. They can write - 2026-06-20 - [The Taxonomy of API Operations](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/the-taxonomy-of-api-operations) - API documentation is always incomplete. But that doesn't matter if those who consume it are developers. Like any other human being, developers have the power of intuition. And that makes all the diffe - 2026-06-16 - [Tealium Context API, Blockworks + Messari, ServiceNow Data Leak](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/tealium-context-api-blockworks-messari-servicenow-data-leak) - This is issue 2026.24 of the API Changelog, a mix of API news, commentary, and opinion. In this issue, you'll get to know the most relevant API-related information from the week of June 8, 2026. Subsc - 2026-06-12 - [From Gateway Governance to Capability Orchestration](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/from-gateway-governance-to-capability-orchestration) - API gateways are useless. Well, not yet, but if they don’t adapt to API capability consumption, they will for sure. What do I mean by that? API gateways were designed for predictable traffic driven by - 2026-06-09 - [Postman AI Engineer, Strava IPO, Fingerprint AI Assistant Detection](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/postman-ai-engineer-strava-ipo-fingerprint-ai-assistant-dete) - This is issue 2026.23 of the API Changelog, a mix of API news, commentary, and opinion. In this issue, you'll get to know the most relevant API-related information from the week of June 1, 2026. Subsc - 2026-06-02 - [Blackmagic AI Gateway, Didit $6M, 42Crunch Agentic DevSecOps](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/blackmagic-ai-gateway-didit-6m-42crunch-agentic-devsecops) - This is issue 2026.22 of the API Changelog, a mix of API news, commentary, and opinion. In this issue, you'll get to know the most relevant API-related information from the week of May 25, 2026. Subsc - 2026-05-29 - [Fixing the MCP Onboarding Mess](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/fixing-the-mcp-onboarding-mess) - MCP is becoming the standard way of consuming APIs. Well, not just APIs, to be fair. It can connect AI agents to anything, from databases to home devices like lamps and switches. With such a diversity - 2026-05-26 - [Anthropic + Stainless, Benji $6.25M, Snyk Claude Integration](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/anthropic-stainless-benji-6-25m-snyk-claude-integration) - This is issue 2026.21 of the API Changelog, a mix of API news, commentary, and opinion. In this issue, you'll get to know the most relevant API-related information from the week of May 18, 2026. Subsc - 2026-05-22 - [Moving Beyond OpenAPI for Agentic Experience](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/moving-beyond-openapi-for-agentic-experience) - Forget all you learned about developer experience. The goal has changed. Now, API design is not just about helping people build integrations. Now what matters the most is making sure that AI agents ha - 2026-05-19 - [FedNow API, GhostLock, Everlaw Legal Holds](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/fednow-api-ghostlock-everlaw-legal-holds) - This is issue 2026.20 of the API Changelog, a mix of API news, commentary, and opinion. In this issue, you'll get to know the most relevant API-related information from the week of May 11, 2026. Subsc - 2026-05-15 - [Moving from API Operations to Business Capabilities](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/moving-from-api-operations-to-business-capabilities) - How to organize your API operations into business assets. - 2026-05-12 - [Traefik Labs Ingress NGINX Migration, Solana Pay.sh, Akamai Security Posture](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/traefik-labs-ingress-nginx-migration-solana-pay-sh-akamai-se) - The API Changelog issue 2026.19 - 2026-05-05 - [IBM Envizi, Redpine €6.8M, Command Zero Programmatic Security Investigation API](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/ibm-envizi-redpine-6-8m-command-zero-programmatic-security-i) - The API Changelog issue 2026.18 - 2026-05-01 - [Putting the Brake on Autonomous API Workflows](https://usecommune.com/n/apichangelog/a/putting-the-brake-on-autonomous-api-workflows) - Why the most sophisticated workflows still need a human-in-the-loop to succeed.