API Evangelist Newsletter

Week of August 7 – August 15, 2026

The Network Learned to See Agent Traffic, and It Learned by Guessing

5,806 posts across the 5,299 API-bearing providers I track between August 7th and 15th. Last week the identity vendors reached into a drawer of old RFCs to answer who is calling. This week the...

Week of August 1 – August 6, 2026

Agent Authorization Got RFC Numbers, and User-Agent Became a Billing Identity

4,886 posts across the 5,267 API-bearing providers I track between August 1st and 6th. Last week the session disappeared from MCP and I told you every request would now have to carry its own...

Week of July 25 – August 1, 2026

MCP Went Stateless, and the Whole Network Shipped It in Three Days

8,862 new posts across the 5,204 API-bearing providers I track in the last seven days, and 6,571 of them carried an API signal in the title. Last week I told you to plan for...

Week of July 18 – July 25, 2026

MCP Starts Breaking Things, and the Gateways Move In

9,429 new posts across the 5,109 API-bearing providers I track in the last seven days, and 6,695 of them carried an API signal in the title. Two weeks ago MCP grew an economy. Last...

Week of July 12 – July 20, 2026

Agent Skills Land in the Toolchain, and a Benchmark Lands Right Behind Them

6,229 new posts across the 3,652 API-bearing providers I track in the last seven days, and 4,447 of them carried an API signal in the title. Last week MCP grew an economy. This week...

Week of July 4 – July 11, 2026

MCP Grows an Economy: AWS Adds OAuth, Virtual MCP Manages the Bill, and Governance Moves to the Consumer

6,215 new posts across the 3,656 API-bearing providers I track this week, and 4,371 of them carried an API signal in the title. Last week the platforms arrived; this week MCP grew an economy....

Week of June 27 – July 4, 2026

Apple and Meta Ship MCP Servers, 'CLI, API, or MCP?' Becomes the Question, and Running MCP in Production Gets Real

5,395 new posts across the 3,505 API-bearing providers I track this week, and 3,917 of them carried an API signal in the title. The story this week is arrival: Apple shipped a Safari MCP...

Week of June 21 – June 28, 2026

Only 8.5% of MCP Servers Use OAuth, Agent Skills Become a Product, and the OpenAPI Pipeline Industrializes

4,909 new posts across the 2,607 API-bearing providers I track this week, and 3,478 of them carried an API signal in the title. Last week MCP grew a control plane; this week the assembly...

Week of June 14 – June 21, 2026

MCP Grows a Control Plane, the Gateway Becomes the Blast Radius, and the NSA Writes the Spec

3,699 new posts across the 2,534 API-bearing providers I track this week — the first week I pulled blogs across every single provider in the network. Last week MCP shipped GA everywhere; this week...

Week of June 7 – June 14, 2026

Anthropic's Three-Day Model, MCP Goes GA Everywhere, and the Worm Reaches the Agents

4,194 new posts across 688 providers this week. Anthropic shipped Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — the first generally available Mythos-class model — and the US Government pulled it three days later under an...

Week of June 1 – June 7, 2026

Anthropic Files for IPO, npm Is On Fire, and the Agent Security Bill Comes Due

3,982 posts across 857 providers this week. Anthropic confidentially filed its S-1 — the first frontier AI lab to go public. A coordinated npm worm campaign hit hundreds of packages including Vapi.ai in production....

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For June 2nd, 2026

I am finding the rhythm to the blog roundup for this newsletter each week. I can tell there is a lot of AI generated blog posts, but I still consider these as valid signals....

Week of May 20 – May 27, 2026

MCP Night 4 Set the Agenda, Every SaaS Shipped an MCP Server, and Governance Finally Showed Up

6,518 posts across 2,364 API-bearing repos in the last seven days, 3,626 of them with API-related title signal. The expanded blog pull tripled my coverage. Three threads dominate: MCP Night 4 became the de...

Week of May 10 – May 17, 2026

MCP Gateways Take Over, OAuth Gets Real, and Merge Writes a Cookbook

4,108 posts across 948 API-bearing repos in the last seven days. 258 had something to say about APIs in the title. After deduping the same story showing up across multiple feeds, three threads dominate...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For May 11th, 2026

Welcome to week two of steering the API Evangelist newsletter back towards being the more respectable newsletter it used to be back in the day. To do this I am tapping into the signals...

Week of April 26 – May 3, 2026

MCP Goes From Trend to Default, and Security Catches Up

I tracked 2,104 posts across 884 API-bearing repos in the last seven days. 178 of them had something to say about APIs in the title. After deduping the same story showing up across multiple...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For April 29th, 2026

In an effort to drive my work at Naftiko, I am finding renewed energy for API Evangelist, and profiling of APIs, as we all collide with the AI delusions of the market. I’ve turned...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For April 20th, 2026

You will have to stick with me as I continue to shift around my world as the API Evangelist, while simultaneously building Naftiko. These worlds are intertwined, but I’ve been investing most of my...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For April 6th, 2026

I’ve been immersed in finding the signal within the noise of the markets for most of February and March. There is a lot that does not make sense when you look out across the...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For March 16th, 2026

Last week I wrote about Agent Skills in this newsletter, and the previous week’s newsletter I wrote about MCP. Next I’d like to zoom out the deep dives into each of these areas to...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For March 12th, 2026

Following up on last week's newsletter about MCP and the evolution of documentation I have spent a lot of time looking at Agent Skills. Like MCP I am finding ways to get more excited...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For March 2nd, 2026

I had some great conversations this last week about the evolution of documentation as part of the MCP evolution in the API conversation. Alongside these conversations I have been diving into recent releases from...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For February 23rd, 2026

In the short 13 months I was at Bloomberg, the leadership for my group changed twice. My boss, and my bosses boss remained the same throughout my tenure, but the overall structure of the...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For February 16th, 2026

There is a lot of uncertainty online today. Honestly, I think it will be the default state of being online from here forward. If you want more certainty, you have to focus on tangible...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For February 9th, 2026

Governance means different things to different people. Governance in reality is an ongoing negotiation, but really just amongst those in power and who are in the know. For everyone else governance means guidance. In...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For February 2nd, 2026

I think I have been able to connect the dots between the business and engineering signals I have been gathering as part of my work on Nafitko Signals. I have been drowning in the...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For January 26th, 2026

I jokingly asked if we needed gateways anymore on LinkedIn this week. Declaring that AI had breached the enterprise gates. I am only half joking. The breaching of the enterprise gates began well over...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For January 19th, 2026

Hello, and welcome to API Evangelist Governance, or what I prefer to just simply call guidance. Because that is what governance should be—guidance. This newsletter is finding new life and has a evolving voice...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For January 12th, 2026

Welcome to 2026. I hope you got some rest over the holidays, and are ready for the work we have in front of us on the table this year. I have to be honest,...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For December 17th, 2025

There was no API Evangelist newsletter last week because I was on my way to Paris, France for APIDays. I was saving up all of my ideas for the conversations I would be having...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

I am thinking a lot about marketing and evangelism at the business and personal levels lately. To be honest, I never stop thinking about these things. But as I work to ramp up my...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

I am doing the work to align multiple dimensions my work to build Naftiko around the very central concept of “capabilities”—which I currently define as open-source, declarative, standards-based integrations that are aligned with outcomes...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

Business alignment is everything. When I say business alignment, I mean alignment between leadership and employees within a company, alignment between technical and non-technical groups within a company, alignment with partners, alignment with a...

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As I ride my bike through NYC each day for two hours, I find myself thinking a lot about the power of context over domain. I ride through multiple domains which are governed by...

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I’m in the business of studying the signals that emanate from large systems. The only way to truly understand a large system is to study its inputs and outputs—otherwise, you risk getting lost inside...

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Finding the signal in the noise these days online isn’t easy. The web, social media, APIs, and enterprises, organizations, institutions, and government agencies are all just too big to understand in any straightforward way....

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The more I study the API landscape for Naftiko market research the more I see the missing fabric needed to stitch things together so things don’t just keep fraying. AI has taught me a...

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I am finding a way forward in the noise of today’s tech landscape. Last week’s newsletter dive into OpenRouter continued to evolve my view of the landscape. Particularly the input, output, and routing involved....

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A startup called OpenRouter has come up in my market research and during ongoing discussion enough lately that I found myself thinking about it throughout the weekend—so what better way to work through my...

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I have been diving deep into the world of FinOps, and how the technology industry is standardizing what we spend on our SaaS, Cloud, and now AI services. I really enjoy coming up against...

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As I work to help lay an opinionated foundation for what Naftiko produces, I wanted to ground my narrative surrounding automation. Automation matters in this moment, but I am not sold that everyone has...

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Context is one of those magical words out there right now to describe where businesses should be focusing when it comes to making the rubber meet the road with artificial intelligence if you want...

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The greatest shift in the last in the last five years isn’t artificial intelligence, it is the financialization of everything in our worlds using artificial intelligence. Think bitcoin, but for everything else. When everything...

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One thing that is evident when you look out across the API space is a lack of alignment between business and engineering when it comes what standardization means. I have spent a lot of...

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I was immersed in what it takes to automate business all of this week. My definition of automation includes the current notion of agentic automation using AI, but also other ways we already are...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

I wanted to reflect this week on my 35 year journey regarding the negotiation and market-driven access to the information that has shaped the last 50 years of business, and how all of this...

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I have been working to standardize the plans and pricing from the perspective of an API producer for years, but now I am living at the intersection of plans, pricing, and rate limits from...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

As I prepare the go to market strategy for our new startup Naftiko I am hyper aware of the state of the market after conducting research on the space for the last two months....

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Last week I talked about the importance of capabilities, and this week I want to talk about the resources that go into these capabilities. Each Naftiko Capability is made up of a variety of...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

Jerome Louvel and I are building Naftiko to around the concept of “capabilities”. These capabilities deliver the integrations needed to power businesses, and possess the technical and business details needed to automate and orchestrate...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

After a couple of weeks of deep research on the API integration and consumption space I have a plan in place for how we’ll be approaching the building of Naftiko, my new startup with...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

It was another slow summer week in which not a lot of business got done. But, as I made to and from Maine to see family this week I spent time continuing to recalibrate...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

I am neck deep in market research for Naftiko this week, and it is very strange for me to have a wealth of information I want to share with you, but I am also...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

Let’s give a big Monday shout out to our SDK partner APIMATIC. API Evangelist storytelling occurs because of APIMATIC, and I am thankful to have their support for this ride! I am continuing with...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

Let’s give a big Monday shout out to our SDK partner APIMATIC. API Evangelist storytelling occurs because of APIMATIC, and I am thankful to have their support for this ride! There was no storytelling...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

Let’s give a big Monday shout out to our SDK partner APIMATIC. API Evangelist storytelling occurs because of APIMATIC, and I am thankful to have their support for this ride! It was a fairly...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

Let’s give a big Monday shout out to our SDK partner APIMATIC. API Evangelist storytelling occurs because of APIMATIC, and I am thankful to have their support for this ride! I’ve learned over the...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

Let’s give a big Monday shout out to our SDK partner APIMATIC. API Evangelist storytelling occurs because of APIMATIC, and I am thankful to have their support for this ride! The week began as...

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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)

Let’s give a big Monday shout out to our SDK partner APIMATIC. API Evangelist storytelling occurs because of APIMATIC, and I am thankful to have their support for this ride! I am heads down...