Learning About Standards via Cloudflare Radar AI Insights
Cloudflare has released an AI Insights feature on its Radar platform that showcases how a suite of web standards can be used to automate and control non‑human traffic. The update highlights extensions to robots.txt for AI usage, link‑header relationships, OAuth discovery files, markdown content negotiation, the open Universal Commerce Protocol, and new Content Signals policies. It also references emerging drafts such as AI‑pref in robots.txt and Web Bot Auth that rely on HTTP Message Signatures. By exposing these standards at the DNS edge, Cloudflare aims to give site operators granular control over how AI agents crawl, train, and transact on their sites.
Not a Single API Evangelist Post in March
Kin Lane, the voice behind API Evangelist, admits he published no posts in March, citing an intensive focus on generative‑AI tools Claude and Gemini for his company Naftiko. While the AI agents accelerated project delivery, they also drained his creative...
There Is a Lot of Knowledge and Wisdom Packed Into Speakeasy's Agent Skills
Speakeasy has released a detailed catalog of Agent Skills that codify the actions needed to generate, test, and manage SDKs and Terraform providers from OpenAPI specs. The list includes steps such as starting new projects, diagnosing failures, customizing runtime behavior,...
Where Is Governance (Guidance) Going?
The article reflects on a recent conversation with product marketer Anna Daugherty about the future of API governance, emphasizing a shift toward consumer‑first perspectives. It introduces "Spotlight rules" as the next evolution of Spectral and Vacuum linting, extending governance beyond...