API Evangelist Daily：2026年11月2日每日資訊

This is the API Evangelist Daily for Monday, November 2, 2026 — what is new across APIs.io, API Evangelist and API Commons, plus a few things from the shelf.

New on API Evangelist

• Add Webhooks To Your Product And Recover Failed Deliveries With Svix — A big customer asks whether your product can notify their system the moment an order ships. Your engineers say yes, then quote you weeks of work, because sending the message turns out to be the easy part.
• Check Two OpenAPI Versions For Breaking Changes, And Know What It Cannot See — This is the third story in my series on what each API Evangelist operation can do. Friday I searched sixteen years of research.
• Control Who Sees Your Data, Manage Warehouses And Run AI Models With Snowflake — A new analyst starts on Monday and can't see the sales tables until someone files a request. A departing contractor still has access nobody remembered to remove.
• Plus 6 more today: Find The Root Cause Of Outages, Search Logs And Forecast Monitoring Costs With Dynatrace; Manage Marketing Emails, Campaign Budgets And Customer Conversations With HubSpot; Run Website Reports, Send Server Events And Handle Privacy Deletion Requests With Google Analytics; The Decoder Only Pours Part Of The Bedrock; The Same Fifty Providers Sit Under Every Kind Of Application; Use A Score To Build Your API Roadmap And Not To Chase A Number

New on APIs.io

• AI Agents has 1,016 providers and 41.0% of them are still human-only — The AI Agents tag on apis.io holds 1,016 providers and 323 APIs, and one number frames it: 417 of those providers, 41.0%, sit in the human-only band of our agent readiness measure. These are companies carrying the word agent on their own listing.
• Four of the top 20 in our investing industry manage infrastructure, not money — Four of the 20 highest scorers in our Investing & Venture Capital industry have nothing to do with investing. Bentley Systems is fifth at 71.2, Limble CMMS seventh at 70.8, MaintainX twelfth at 66.7 and SewerAI tied for eighteenth at 63.9.
• Infobip's Connectivity API offers SIM swap checks twice, and its async lookup has no webhook contract — The Infobip Connectivity API is the telecom identity layer of Infobip: number lookups, silent mobile verification, SIM swap checks, national ID checks, biometric sessions, and CAMARA endpoints. Its contract has 36 operations and 7 webhooks.
• Plus 8 more today: Just over half of our pricing records cite evidence, and 32% of them were generated; Palo Alto Networks Moves Agent Identity Into Silicon. Its Record Has Not Followed.; Photoroom Says Fix the Catalog Before the Protocol, and Its Own Record Shows the Same Gap; The serverless page shows 30 of 141 providers, and the sample flatters the market by 23 points; SimScale Polled Engineers on AI, and One in Twenty Are Scaling It; Sobot Defines the Customer Service Agent Skill. Its API Pages Do Not Show One Yet.; Three times as many provider sites serve llms.txt as security.txt; A Workato Customer Says Nobody Has Figured Out Agent Pricing, So Build the Meter First

Kin Score mover

• Sully AI rose 24.4 points, from 21.0 to 45.4 (developing), between the 2026-10-30 and 2026-10-31 scoring runs.

Provider spotlight

• Mastercard — Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, providing APIs for payment processing, fraud detection, data analytics, and financial services. Kin Score 57.3 (strong), agent readiness 42.8 (agent-native).

From the conversations

• API Evangelist Conversation with Reza Shafii, Product Executive At Kong — My friend Emanual had tagged me in one of Reza's posts on LinkedIn about API integrations being dead, so I invitied Reza to come over and explain more about what he meant. I knew the title was bait, but I was interested in hearing Reza's argument and after the conversation it is clear that he's done a lot of thinking at this intersection and wasn't just adding to the AI hype.

FAQ

• How do I name things in my API? Use the language the business uses, plural nouns for collections, consistent casing everywhere, and no abbreviations that require a decoder ring. Then write the convention down and lint it.

Guidance

• Quality — The measurable correctness consistency and completeness of API definitions

Standard

• EPCIS — EPCIS (Electronic Product Code Information Services) is the GS1 standard for capturing and sharing supply chain event data — what happened to an object, where, when, and why.

Investor

• Foundry Group — Foundry Group is a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson. The firm invests in early-stage technology startups across the United States, organizing its work around long-lived, horizontal investment themes (such as "glue", "protocol", "distribution", and "human computer interaction") rather than narrow verticals, with a particular affinity…

Country

• 🇵🇹 Portugal — 10 API providers on APIs.io; the most in Artificial Intelligence (3), Customer Support & Service (2), Government & Public Sector (2).

Regulation

• ESIGN Act and UETA — ESIGN is the US federal statute giving electronic signatures and records the same legal effect as their paper equivalents, and UETA is the uniform state law adopted in almost every state that does the same at state level.

Tool

• Apache CouchDB — NoSQL document database using JSON for documents, HTTP for API, and JavaScript for MapReduce queries.

Everything mentioned is linked in the show notes. Find any API at apis.io, and see what we are working on at apievangelist.com.

Originally published at https://newsletters.apievangelist.com/daily/2026/11/02/.