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I let 250 bots crawl my API registry for 48 hours. Here is what they actually asked for

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Two days of logs from a machine-facing API registry: which manifest files agents read, what they search for, and the one thing that makes an entry usable by an agent. I built agentnexus.app, a registry of APIs, MCP servers and CLIs meant to be read by AI agents rather than by people. Then I did the…

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  1. 2026-09-17 16:22 · DEV Community — AI
    I let 250 bots crawl my API registry for 48 hours. Here is what they actually asked for

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