{
  "id": 419081,
  "title": "WorkOS: Connect Your Agents to Your API",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/workos-connect-your-agents-to-your-api",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-09T23:54:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daring Fireball",
    "slug": "daring-fireball",
    "url": "https://workos.com/blog/mcp-vs-rest"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring DF last week. What’s the best way to connect AI agents to your API? REST is great for human developers; MCP serves the agents . Many teams treat REST and MCP as competing standards, and through choice or necessity, pick one. But they ought not be considered rivals. They’re separate layers. Most MCP servers just call REST internally to do the real…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}