Re: A broader discussion: the usefulness of REST

Le 09/06/2025 à 19:48, Rigel a écrit :

> 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.

Also, I think I've already seen severak news about AI agents either 
opening up a confused deputy attack, or accessing resources that their 
operator didn't want them to access. And REST lends itself very 
naturally to capability-based security, so that would be another 
interesting feature...


> Shall we work on it?

Sure!

That leads to a question I was about to ask: what would be valuable to 
add to the current Hydra?

So what would be valuable on the AI front? I'm actually wondering if 
there's anything AI-specific, actually, or if the goal shouldn't just be 
to have something complete and accesible enough for any consumer...

Curiously,
Pierre Thierry

Received on Tuesday, 10 June 2025 19:20:55 UTC