Prompt trick: make your agent surface API doc gaps before writing any integration code
gethackteam · x · 2026-09-24
A practical agent-engineering tip from gethackteam: before letting an agent write an API integration, give it this job — "Find a real request and response, the auth flow, rate limits and error cases. List what the docs leave unclear."
The idea is to make missing documentation visible up front, so the whole app isn't built around unverified assumptions that force rework later.
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