Re: A broader discussion: the usefulness of REST

út 10. 6. 2025 v 13:41 odesílatel Rigel <zedr@zedr.com> napsal:

> Hello Pierre.
>
> I've read your article with interest. One small bit caught my attention:
>
> > except if we use an AI as a REST client…
>
> I've been thinking about this in the last few weeks. REST as an
> alternative to the MCP[1], which is JSON-RPC.
>

You may want to look at A2A which is "REST Adjacent"

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

I dont think anyone has solved this problem yet in a 100% web standards
way, and gained traction, but there are a few efforts in progress


>
> A properly implemented, fully auto-describing REST application would work
> well with autonomous agents using LLM and reasoning mechanisms. A really
> cool demo would be one where an LLM-based client is able to navigate such
> an application to complete a task with no prior knowledge on how the API
> works.
>
> One big hurdle, in my opinion, of REST is that the client needs to
> understand the language of the server in order to use it. Prior to LLMs,
> this was only possible if that language was coded into the client. LLMs are
> very good at inferring this through a conversation, which in this case are
> the RESTful state transitions driven by hyperlinked and expressive
> resources.
>
> I think there might be an opportunity to put forth a new and better
> standard for agent communication and cooperation. LLM agents are the killer
> application for a Semantic Web powered by RESTful applications.
>
> Shall we work on it?
>
> Cheers.
> Rigel.
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rigeldiscala/
>
> 1. Model Context Protocol, https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
>