Demonstrate and understand how agents fail to use APIs as expected
- Test if agents use documentation or specifications
- Check for clear errors that help agents recover
- Understand what agents expect from APIs
Workshop
What Agents Want from Your Product
Your product was designed for humans. Your next million users won't be human.
See syllabus and enrollWho this is for
Start where this matches your job.
- API Product Managers who own APIs and need to know if agents can use them. Evaluate before you build.
- Software Architects and Tech Leads responsible for API design and infrastructure. Prepare your platform for agent traffic.
- Founders and Product Leaders hearing about agent-readiness from customers or competitors. Get a clear picture.
Syllabus
What you'll learn
Practice API design using a Skill
- Know how to properly design an API that follows standards and best practices
- Be able to validate OpenAPI specifications
- Understand how to use and customize a Skill for API design
Build a checklist to improve your API products
- Use recommended approaches to build and prioritize your own checklist
Logistics
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of APIs and OpenAPI. We'll test various APIs so you'll be ahead if you can understand these concepts
- Familiarity with Claude Code or other codegen harnesses. We'll supply a month of credits so you can complete the exercises and then move on to testing your own API products
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What students say
Excellent course - and doable in a short time. Give yourself a gift and take part in the next cohort if you can!
Fit check
Is this right for me?
- Do I need API experience?
Some API familiarity is required. You should understand what an API is, what endpoints are, and what a response looks like. You don't need to have shipped an API yourself. If you're completely new to APIs, enroll in API Fundamentals for Product Managers first.
- Will I need to know how to code?
No. The exercises use Claude Code, which handles the technical work. You'll prompt it, not program it.
- My APIs have good docs and a solid OpenAPI spec. Do I really need this?
That's exactly the assumption this workshop challenges. You'll watch live as an agent ignores your docs, skips your spec, and guesses from training data. Good docs help humans. Agents play by different rules.
- Can't I just run a scoring tool to check if my APIs are agent-ready?
You can. We'll run one during the workshop. Then we'll show you what it misses. Scoring tools are a starting point, not the answer.
- What happens if I can't make a live session?
This is a live, hands-on workshop and attendance is important to get the full experience. If something comes up, no worries. I'll transfer your enrollment to a future session at no extra cost.
- I work full-time, what is the expected time commitment?
The workshop will run for 4 hours maximum, including optional intro and Q&A.
- Will we design and build an API in this workshop?
No we will examine what good API design for agents looks like. And we'll point you in the right direction by giving you a Skill and API Standards file you can use. If you'd like to learn how to design and build an API from scratch with AI, consider taking the Build an API-First Product with AI workshop.
- Is there overlap with API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs?
Different focus. API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs covers API strategy, lifecycle, design, and GTM across the full product journey. This workshop focuses on making your APIs work for AI agents. Course alumni will find new, agent-specific content here.
- Can my employer reimburse this?
Many participants use L&D or professional development budgets. Maven provides expense templates to make the case.
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