Is Your API Agent-Ready? Why AI Could Be Your Fastest-Growing Customer in 2025

As AI agents evolve from passive chatbots to autonomous decision-makers, developers are being urged to rethink API design for a machine-first world. A recent New Stack report highlights that API traffic from AI agents surged 49% in early 2025, driven by retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and goal-oriented automation.

 

Experts warn that most enterprise APIs are still built for human developers—not machines. Without machine-legible documentation, AI agents may misinterpret endpoints, hallucinate methods, or flood servers with errant calls. The solution? A well-defined OpenAPI specification, real-time monitoring, and semantic clarity in descriptions.

 

APIContext’s June 2025 report reveals that 75% of production APIs suffer from “API drift”—a mismatch between actual behavior and documentation. This poses a major risk as agentic AI becomes mainstream, with Gartner predicting 33% of enterprise apps will embed AI agents by 2028.

 

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Source: The New Stack – How To Prepare Your API for AI Agents | London Daily News – APIContext Report