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Stop pasting API docs into AI coding agents: serve the spec over MCP

Watch an engineer use a coding agent against an unfamiliar API and you see the same ritual every session. They paste the docs URL, then the auth section, then an example response, then a correction: "pagination is cursor, not page", "money is integer cents", "the list wrapper is data.items".

By JeffDev.to AI
Stop pasting API docs into AI coding agents: serve the spec over MCP

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Originally published by Dev.to AI on Oct 3, 2026.

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