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Overview
In this module you will
- Read the documentation of any API in a sensible order and find what you need in minutes.
- Pull out the facts that decide whether your code works: base URL, authentication, required inputs, defaults, limits and the error format.
- Spot defaults and limits that quietly change your results.
- Read an OpenAPI specification, the machine-readable form of API documentation, with a small script.
An agent project touches many APIs: one or more model providers, search, databases, email, calendars and your own internal services. Each has its own rules, and each changes over time. Libraries and their examples go stale, including the examples in books and blog posts.
The people who build agents well are the ones who can open the current official documentation, find the one parameter that explains the behaviour, and confirm it with a real request. That skill outlasts any single library.