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> It works better!

> I strongly believe it is one of the best technologies for AI agents

Do you have any quantitative evidence to support this?

Sincere question. I feel it would add some much needed credibility in a space where many folks are abusing the hype wave and low key shilling their products with vibes instead of rigor.

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I have thought about this for all of thirty seconds, but it wouldn't shock me if this was the case. The intuition here is about types, and the ability to introspect them. Agents really love automated guardrails. It makes sense to me that this would work better than RESTish stuff, even with OpenAPI.

Better than rest is a low bar though. Ultimately agents should rarely be calling raw rest and graphql apis, which are meant for programmatic use.

Agents should be calling one level of abstraction higher.

Eg calling a function to “find me relevant events in this city according to this users preferences” instead of “list all events in this city”.

Same in terms of time spent. The hypothesis graphql is superior passes the basic sniff test. Assuming graphql does what it says on the tin, which my understanding is it does based on my work with Ent, then the claim it’s better for tool and api use by agents follows from common sense.

This is a task I think is suited for a sub agent that is small in size. It can can take the context beating to query for relevant tools and return only what is necessary to the main agent thread.

I've seen a similar setup with an llm loop integrated with clojure. In clojure, code is data, so the llm can query, execute, and modify the program directly

If you knew GraphQL, you may immediately see it - you ask for specific nested structure of the data, which can span many joins across different related collections. This is not the case with common REST API or CLI for example. And introspection is another good reason.

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