Running APIs for AI Agents: An Operations Playbook
Autonomous AI agents are exposing weaknesses in API infrastructure designed primarily for human users. Aggressive retries, excessive polling, shared credentials, poorly configured rate limits and runaway API consumption can quickly overwhelm production systems. Preparing for agent-driven traffic requires more than well-designed endpoints. Engineering teams need workload-specific authentication, stronger gateway controls, real-time cost limits and observability that distinguishes automated clients from human users.
