Error Contracts Between Agents and External APIs
Formal contracts define what agents must preserve at API boundaries—and enforce them at runtime.
Teodora Vásquez
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5 stories in Tool and API Contracts.
Formal contracts define what agents must preserve at API boundaries—and enforce them at runtime.
Agents need a centralized control layer to handle shared rate limits safely.
Precise tool contracts prevent silent failures and make agent reasoning recoverable.
Agent deployments need schema versioning as infrastructure, not application logic.
Agents need dedicated identities and per-call delegation tokens, not shared service accounts.