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Decision protocol for wrapping a REST / GraphQL / RPC API as a tool an LLM agent can call. The load-bearing premise: the *tool surface* is an LM-friendly subset of the *API surface* — one tool per user intent, not one per endpoint. Activates when a coder agent must expose an exte
Decision protocol for wrapping a REST / GraphQL / RPC API as a tool an LLM agent can call. The load-bearing premise: the *tool surface* is an LM-friendly subset of the *API surface* — one tool per user intent, not one per endpoint. Activates when a coder agent must expose an external HTTP API to a model (function calling, tool_use, MCP, LangChain `@tool`, CrewAI `BaseTool`). Encodes the *what to surface, how to name, how to shape, how to fail* — not any single framework's API. ~80% of agent tools in production are HTTP wrappers; this is the SOP for getting them right.
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Source posture: every non-trivial claim is cited inline with short tags like
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Activate when a coder agent must make an external HTTP API callable by an LLM. Concrete triggers:
429, timeouts, or unpaginated list endpoints.tool_use, an MCP server, LangChain @tool, and CrewAI BaseTool.Do not activate when: the API is already exposed as an MCP server you merely consume (just connect it); the "tool" is pure local computation with no network I/O (write a plain typed function); or you are designing the upstream API itself.
This is a tool-construction skill — sibling to the framework SOPs
(langgraph-sop, crewai-sop) which decide whether/where tools run. Once you
know you need a tool, this skill decides what shape it takes.
The tool surface is an LM-friendly subset of the API surface. One tool per intent, not one per endpoint.
A REST API is designed for programmers who read docs, hold a mental model of resources, and compose calls. An agent tool is designed for a language model that sees only a name, a description, and a JSON schema — and must decide, mid-reasoning, whether this is the thing to call. These are different audiences, so the surface must be re-cut, not mirrored.
"Tool descriptions are often more important than code comments because the LLM directly uses them for reasoning."
[apxml/schema]
Four load-bearing consequences:
Intent, not CRUD. The unit of a tool is a thing the agent wants to
accomplish (cancel_order, find_customer_by_email), not an HTTP verb on a
resource (DELETE /orders/{id}). One intent may compose several endpoints;
one endpoint may serve zero intents (admin/batch/webhook-out endpoints get
dropped). Surface intent, not the verb table [zuplo/agent-ready].
The schema is the prompt. The model never sees your code. It sees the
tool name, the description, and each field's description=. Every field
needs units, format, enum values, and an example aimed at the model — "if a
field is a date, specify ISO 8601 vs Unix timestamp" [apxml/schema]. A
typed schema (Pydantic / JSON Schema) is non-negotiable because it is both
the validation layer and the documentation the model reads [lc/tools].
The response is context, and context is scarce. A 10 MB JSON payload is not "data the agent has" — it is tokens the agent must pay for, re-read, and can misquote. Shape the response down to the fields the agent needs to reason or act on. Returning raw upstream JSON is the second most common anti-pattern after 1:1 mapping.
The model cannot promise call discipline. It may emit zero, one, or
several calls — "best practice [is] to assume there are several"
[oai/fc] — retry on its own, or be resumed by the framework. So the
wrapper owns reliability (timeout, retry, rate-limit) and safety
(idempotency on mutations). You cannot prompt these guarantees into existence;
you build them into the tool. (Side-effect safety is deep enough to be its
own skill — cross-link llm-tool-idempotency for any mutating tool.)
The pre-LLM analog: you are writing an SDK for a non-deterministic, amnesiac junior dev who reads only the function signature — generous docstrings, narrow typed inputs, small clean returns, and total robustness to being called wrong.
Walk top-down. Each step has a gate — if it fails, fix it before adding surface.
List every endpoint × verb. For each, ask: "what user/agent intent does this
serve?" Drop endpoints with no agent-facing intent (internal admin, batch
jobs, outbound webhooks). The MCP guidance is a useful first cut: GET-style
data reads often map to resources; create/update/delete map to tools
[gun/mcp]. Target ≤10 surfaced operations for a first pass.
Gate: if you are about to create one tool per endpoint, stop — that is AP-1. Auto-generated 1:1 servers from an OpenAPI spec "routinely under-perform hand-curated tools"
[stainless/mcp].
Tool name = verb_object describing intent: search_orders, cancel_order,
get_order_status. Not post_orders_v2, delete_orders_id. Test: a model
that has never seen your API, reading only the name, should guess when to call
it. The name should be a verb; the description should explain when to call,
not how [oai/prompting].
Define a Pydantic model (or JSON Schema). Rules:
description= (units, format,
enum, example) [lc/tools] [apxml/schema].filter[status]=open → status: Literal["open","closed"]. The model should never construct a query-string
fragment.Gate: every field the model can set has a
description=. Untyped**kwargsor a free-formbody: stris a smell — the model will fill it wrong.
Catch HTTPStatusError / ValidationError / network errors. Return a
structured, LM-readable error, never a raw stack trace:
{"error": "rate_limited", "message": "...", "retryable": true, "hint": "wait and retry"}
Use a small closed set of error codes (not_found, invalid_input,
auth_failed, rate_limited, server_error). LangChain's ToolException
converts a raised error into an LM-visible string for the same reason
[lc/structured]. The model reasons over the error like any other tool output —
give it something it can act on.
Define an output model with only the fields the agent needs. Drop audit
timestamps, internal mirrors, deprecated fields, ETags. Summarize blobs into
strings. Aim for a compact payload per call (rule of thumb: keep it small enough
that re-reading it 5 times in a loop is cheap). For lists, return items + a
next_cursor, not the whole dataset (Step 5b).
Step 5b · Pagination. Default: fetch one page, return items + next_cursor, let the agent decide to continue. Prefer cursor over offset —
"cursor-based pagination is more reliable than offset/limit for agentic
scrolling" [techops/rest]. Auto-loop only when total is small and bounded
(≤200); never loop unbounded — a single agent can "burst 20 sequential API
calls to complete one task" [zuplo/agent-ready] (cross-link bounded-loop skill).
Read the key/token from env or a secret store inside the wrapper. Never
expose api_key as a tool parameter and never put a secret in the description —
the model doesn't need it and traces would leak it. Per-tenant tokens flow via a
closure or context object, not via tool args [northflank/mcp].
Gate: grep your tool schema and description for
key,token,secret,password. Zero hits.
If the tool does POST/PUT/DELETE, it will be retried by the model or the
framework. Generate an idempotency key per logical operation and pass it
(Idempotency-Key header) when the API supports it — the canonical Stripe
pattern [stripe/idem]. Tag the tool metadata mutating=True. For the full
decision tree (key derivation, dedup store, at-least-once vs exactly-once),
defer to the llm-tool-idempotency skill — that is its entire domain.
Format: Trigger → Action → Output → Evidence. (Full JSON in
intermediate/operation_candidates.json.)
[zuplo/agent-ready] [stainless/mcp].verb_object; name-only readability test.[oai/prompting].description=; flatten wire
params; explicit required/optional.args_schema on the tool.[lc/tools] [oai/fc] [anthropic/tooluse] [apxml/schema].[northflank/mcp].timeout=. Retry only on 429/5xx/network,
max 3–5, exponential backoff with jitter, honor Retry-After. Never retry
other 4xx.[apxml/rate] [boldsign/retry] [getknit/rate].next/cursor/Link.next_cursor; agent decides to continue;
bounded auto-loop only for small totals.[techops/rest] [zuplo/agent-ready].name: agentsop-http-tool-wrapping version: 0.1.0 description: | Decision protocol for wrapping a REST / GraphQL / RPC API as a tool an LLM agent can call. The load-bearing premise: the *tool surface* is an LM-friendly subset of the *API surface* — one tool per user intent, not one per endpoint. Activates when a coder agent must expose an external HTTP API to a model (function calling, tool_use, MCP, LangChain `@tool`, CrewAI `BaseTool`). Encodes the *what to surface, how to name, how to shape, how to fail* — not any single framework's API. ~80% of agent tools in production are HTTP wrappers; this is the SOP for getting them right. domain: coder-agent / tool-construction audience: engineers wiring external APIs into LLM agents trigger_keywords: - "wrap an API as a tool" - "expose REST endpoint to agent" - "function calling for my API" - "MCP server for existing API" - "tool returns too much JSON" - "agent rate limited / 429" - "GraphQL / RPC as agent tool" when_to_use: - "exposing a third-party or internal HTTP API to an LLM agent" - "deciding which of N endpoints deserve to become tools" - "an existing tool dumps raw JSON and the model hallucinates fields" - "tool calls fail on rate limits, timeouts, or pagination" - "porting the same tool across OpenAI / Anthropic / MCP / LangChain / CrewAI" when_not_to_use: - "the API is already an MCP server you only consume (just connect)" - "no external I/O — pure local computation (write a plain function tool)" - "designing the upstream API itself (that's API design, not tool wrapping)"
---
name: agentsop-http-tool-wrapping
version: 0.1.0
description: |
Decision protocol for wrapping a REST / GraphQL / RPC API as a tool an LLM
agent can call. The load-bearing premise: the *tool surface* is an
LM-friendly subset of the *API surface* — one tool per user intent, not one
per endpoint. Activates when a coder agent must expose an external HTTP API
to a model (function calling, tool_use, MCP, LangChain `@tool`, CrewAI
`BaseTool`). Encodes the *what to surface, how to name, how to shape, how to
fail* — not any single framework's API. ~80% of agent tools in production are
HTTP wrappers; this is the SOP for getting them right.
domain: coder-agent / tool-construction
audience: engineers wiring external APIs into LLM agents
trigger_keywords:
- "wrap an API as a tool"
- "expose REST endpoint to agent"
- "function calling for my API"
- "MCP server for existing API"
- "tool returns too much JSON"
- "agent rate limited / 429"
- "GraphQL / RPC as agent tool"
when_to_use:
- "exposing a third-party or internal HTTP API to an LLM agent"
- "deciding which of N endpoints deserve to become tools"
- "an existing tool dumps raw JSON and the model hallucinates fields"
- "tool calls fail on rate limits, timeouts, or pagination"
- "porting the same tool across OpenAI / Anthropic / MCP / LangChain / CrewAI"
when_not_to_use:
- "the API is already an MCP server you only consume (just connect)"
- "no external I/O — pure local computation (write a plain function tool)"
- "designing the upstream API itself (that's API design, not tool wrapping)"
---
# HTTP / External API → Agent Tool · SOP
> Source posture: every non-trivial claim is cited inline with short tags like
> `[oai/fc]`, `[anthropic/tooluse]`, `[lc/tools]`, `[mcp/spec]`, `[apxml/schema]`.
> Resolve them against `references/R1-source-evidence.md` for full URLs. Reusable
> code shapes live in `references/R2-pattern-library.md`.
---
## 1. 何时激活 (When to Activate)
Activate when a coder agent must make an **external HTTP API callable by an LLM**.
Concrete triggers:
- The task says "give the agent access to <some API>", "add a tool that calls
<service>", "wrap our REST/GraphQL/RPC endpoint as a function the model can use".
- You are choosing which of N endpoints become tools, or how to name them.
- An existing tool returns a huge JSON blob and the model hallucinates field
names, or burns context re-reading it.
- Tool calls die on `429`, timeouts, or unpaginated list endpoints.
- You need the *same* tool to run under OpenAI function calling, Anthropic
`tool_use`, an MCP server, LangChain `@tool`, and CrewAI `BaseTool`.
**Do not activate** when: the API is already exposed as an MCP server you merely
consume (just connect it); the "tool" is pure local computation with no network
I/O (write a plain typed function); or you are designing the upstream API itself.
This is a **tool-construction** skill — sibling to the framework SOPs
(`langgraph-sop`, `crewai-sop`) which decide *whether/where* tools run. Once you
know you need a tool, this skill decides *what shape it takes*.
---
## 2. 核心心智模型 (Core Mental Model)
**The tool surface is an LM-friendly subset of the API surface. One tool per
intent, not one per endpoint.**
A REST API is designed for *programmers* who read docs, hold a mental model of
resources, and compose calls. An agent tool is designed for a *language model*
that sees only a name, a description, and a JSON schema — and must decide,
mid-reasoning, whether this is the thing to call. These are different audiences,
so the surface must be *re-cut*, not *mirrored*.
> "Tool descriptions are often more important than code comments because the LLM
> directly uses them for reasoning." `[apxml/schema]`
Four load-bearing consequences:
1. **Intent, not CRUD.** The unit of a tool is a *thing the agent wants to
accomplish* (`cancel_order`, `find_customer_by_email`), not an HTTP verb on a
resource (`DELETE /orders/{id}`). One intent may compose several endpoints;
one endpoint may serve zero intents (admin/batch/webhook-out endpoints get
dropped). Surface intent, not the verb table `[zuplo/agent-ready]`.
2. **The schema is the prompt.** The model never sees your code. It sees the
tool name, the description, and each field's `description=`. Every field
needs units, format, enum values, and an example *aimed at the model* — "if a
field is a date, specify ISO 8601 vs Unix timestamp" `[apxml/schema]`. A
typed schema (Pydantic / JSON Schema) is non-negotiable because it is *both*
the validation layer and the documentation the model reads `[lc/tools]`.
3. **The response is context, and context is scarce.** A 10 MB JSON payload is
not "data the agent has" — it is tokens the agent must pay for, re-read, and
can misquote. Shape the response down to the fields the agent needs to
*reason or act* on. Returning raw upstream JSON is the second most common
anti-pattern after 1:1 mapping.
4. **The model cannot promise call discipline.** It may emit zero, one, or
several calls — "best practice [is] to assume there are several"
`[oai/fc]` — retry on its own, or be resumed by the framework. So the
*wrapper* owns reliability (timeout, retry, rate-limit) and *safety*
(idempotency on mutations). You cannot prompt these guarantees into existence;
you build them into the tool. (Side-effect safety is deep enough to be its
own skill — cross-link **`llm-tool-idempotency`** for any mutating tool.)
The pre-LLM analog: you are writing an **SDK for a non-deterministic, amnesiac
junior dev who reads only the function signature** — generous docstrings, narrow
typed inputs, small clean returns, and total robustness to being called wrong.
---
## 3. SOP 工作流 (Standard Operating Procedure)
Walk top-down. Each step has a gate — if it fails, fix it before adding surface.
### Step 1 · Triage: which endpoints deserve to be tools?
List every endpoint × verb. For each, ask: **"what user/agent intent does this
serve?"** Drop endpoints with no agent-facing intent (internal admin, batch
jobs, outbound webhooks). The MCP guidance is a useful first cut: GET-style
data reads often map to *resources*; create/update/delete map to *tools*
`[gun/mcp]`. Target **≤10 surfaced operations** for a first pass.
> Gate: if you are about to create one tool per endpoint, stop — that is AP-1.
> Auto-generated 1:1 servers from an OpenAPI spec "routinely under-perform
> hand-curated tools" `[stainless/mcp]`.
### Step 2 · Name from intent
Tool name = `verb_object` describing intent: `search_orders`, `cancel_order`,
`get_order_status`. **Not** `post_orders_v2`, `delete_orders_id`. Test: a model
that has never seen your API, reading *only the name*, should guess when to call
it. The name should be a verb; the description should explain *when* to call,
not *how* `[oai/prompting]`.
### Step 3 · Flatten params into a typed schema
Define a Pydantic model (or JSON Schema). Rules:
- Type-annotated fields, each with a model-facing `description=` (units, format,
enum, example) `[lc/tools]` `[apxml/schema]`.
- Flatten the API's wire format: `filter[status]=open` → `status:
Literal["open","closed"]`. The model should never construct a query-string
fragment.
- Explicit required vs optional. Defaults where the API has sensible ones.
- Hide pagination/auth/internal knobs from the schema (Steps 5–6).
> Gate: every field the model can set has a `description=`. Untyped `**kwargs` or
> a free-form `body: str` is a smell — the model will fill it wrong.
### Step 4 · Error handling: translate, never leak
Catch `HTTPStatusError` / `ValidationError` / network errors. Return a
**structured, LM-readable** error, never a raw stack trace:
```json
{"error": "rate_limited", "message": "...", "retryable": true, "hint": "wait and retry"}
```
Use a small closed set of `error` codes (`not_found`, `invalid_input`,
`auth_failed`, `rate_limited`, `server_error`). LangChain's `ToolException`
converts a raised error into an LM-visible string for the same reason
`[lc/structured]`. The model reasons over the error like any other tool output —
give it something it can act on.
### Step 5 · Shape the output
Define an **output** model with only the fields the agent needs. Drop audit
timestamps, internal mirrors, deprecated fields, ETags. Summarize blobs into
strings. Aim for a compact payload per call (rule of thumb: keep it small enough
that re-reading it 5 times in a loop is cheap). For lists, return items + a
`next_cursor`, not the whole dataset (Step 5b).
**Step 5b · Pagination.** Default: fetch *one* page, return `items +
next_cursor`, let the agent decide to continue. Prefer cursor over offset —
"cursor-based pagination is more reliable than offset/limit for agentic
scrolling" `[techops/rest]`. Auto-loop only when total is small and bounded
(≤200); never loop unbounded — a single agent can "burst 20 sequential API
calls to complete one task" `[zuplo/agent-ready]` (cross-link bounded-loop skill).
### Step 6 · Auth & secrets at the wrapper boundary
Read the key/token from env or a secret store **inside** the wrapper. **Never**
expose `api_key` as a tool parameter and never put a secret in the description —
the model doesn't need it and traces would leak it. Per-tenant tokens flow via a
closure or context object, not via tool args `[northflank/mcp]`.
> Gate: grep your tool schema and description for `key`, `token`, `secret`,
> `password`. Zero hits.
### Step 7 · Idempotency on mutations
If the tool does POST/PUT/DELETE, it *will* be retried by the model or the
framework. Generate an idempotency key per logical operation and pass it
(`Idempotency-Key` header) when the API supports it — the canonical Stripe
pattern `[stripe/idem]`. Tag the tool metadata `mutating=True`. For the full
decision tree (key derivation, dedup store, at-least-once vs exactly-once),
**defer to the `llm-tool-idempotency` skill** — that is its entire domain.
---
## 4. 操作模型 (Operation Models)
Format: **Trigger → Action → Output → Evidence**. (Full JSON in
`intermediate/operation_candidates.json`.)
### OP-1 · Endpoint triage
- **Trigger**: New API, >3 endpoints.
- **Action**: Enumerate endpoint × verb; label each with the agent intent it
serves; drop the intent-less ones. Cap at ~10.
- **Output**: Triaged candidate list with intent labels.
- **Evidence**: `[zuplo/agent-ready]` `[stainless/mcp]`.
### OP-2 · Name by intent
- **Trigger**: Naming a surfaced operation.
- **Action**: `verb_object`; name-only readability test.
- **Output**: Intent-named tool.
- **Evidence**: `[oai/prompting]`.
### OP-3 · Typed input schema
- **Trigger**: Each surfaced tool.
- **Action**: Pydantic model; per-field model-facing `description=`; flatten wire
params; explicit required/optional.
- **Output**: `args_schema` on the tool.
- **Evidence**: `[lc/tools]` `[oai/fc]` `[anthropic/tooluse]` `[apxml/schema]`.
### OP-4 · Inject auth at boundary
- **Trigger**: Tool needs a key/token.
- **Action**: Read secret inside the wrapper from env/secret store; never a tool
param; per-tenant via closure/context.
- **Output**: Tool that authenticates with no secret in schema.
- **Evidence**: `[northflank/mcp]`.
### OP-5 · Timeout + retry + jittered backoff
- **Trigger**: Any outbound HTTP from a tool.
- **Action**: Explicit per-attempt `timeout=`. Retry only on 429/5xx/network,
max 3–5, exponential backoff **with jitter**, honor `Retry-After`. Never retry
other 4xx.
- **Output**: Resilient client inside the tool.
- **Evidence**: `[apxml/rate]` `[boldsign/retry]` `[getknit/rate]`.
### OP-6 · Pagination — cursor first
- **Trigger**: List endpoint with `next`/`cursor`/`Link`.
- **Action**: Return one page + `next_cursor`; agent decides to continue;
bounded auto-loop only for small totals.
- **Output**: Paginated tool with explicit cursor surface.
- **Evidence**: `[techops/rest]` `[zuplo/agent-ready]`.
### OP-7 · Response shaping
- **Trigger**: APSkill source recorded
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