apimatic.io• Apr 9, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: AI agents are bad at API integrations – we fixed itHi, we're Sohaib and Hannan from APIMatic. We've been building tools to help Developers integrate with APIs for 5+ years at APIMatic. We're now trying to help AI agents do the same.This started from a conversation at PayPal DevDay 2025. The PayPal developer experience team were monitoring developers using AI agents to integrate PayPal APIs, and the agents kept reaching for outdated docs and deprecated SDK versions, often falling back to training data instead of reading the current API documentation.We tested this ourselves with Cursor. Across multiple iterations, 87% of runs fetched outdated reference docs using web search, and 13% of implementations used a deprecated SDK version.What we built:We built Context Plugins - given an OpenAPI spec, we generate SDKs and a remote MCP server that exposes language-specific API context (auth flows, method signatures, error handling, pagination, integration patterns from the API team) packaged and optimised for LLM consumption. Instead of guessing