{
  "id": 9234422,
  "title": "I optimized an API for AI agents instead of humans. Here's what one week of data looked like.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/i-optimized-an-api-for-ai-agents-instead-of-humans-heres-what-one",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-23T00:43:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/wonderfulian/i-optimized-an-api-for-ai-agents-instead-of-humans-heres-what-one-week-of-data-looked-like-ec6"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "I built a paid API to provide Korean business verification data, priced per call in USDC over x402. After launching, I found only two real tool calls in seven days, far below my success bar of 20 real tool calls. The majority of interactions were from bots, crawlers, and other monitoring systems. The issue was that my API required a 10-digit Korean business registration number as input, which agents outside Korea cannot easily provide. Additionally, my free tier returned a standard 200 response, leading the catalog to exclude the resource from being priced. To improve discoverability, I should have focused on the agent's task rather than just providing data, and offered a free tier with opt-in functionality. Furthermore, I should have provided more detailed information about the companies, such as debarment records and sanction history, to help agents make informed decisions about transacting with them.",
  "summary": "I made Korean government data agent-payable with MCP and x402 — here's what actually happened Yoon Yoon Yoon Follow Sep 16 I made Korean government data agent-payable with MCP and x402 — here's what actually happened # ai # mcp # w",
  "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."
}