Agent developer · Automation lead · Platform engineer
Build agent workflows on interfaces you can understand and test.
The software your agents need to use has no suitable API, incomplete documentation, or interfaces that behave differently from how they are described. Every unknown becomes a brittle workaround inside the agent.
The questions you need answered.
- What capabilities does this system really offer an agent, and through which interface?
- Can I give the agent a stable, typed interface instead of a screen or a guess?
- How does the system fail, and how should the agent handle each failure?
- How do I constrain what the agent is permitted to do?
- What happens to my workflows when the upstream system changes?
Worth knowing first.
Tools are contracts
An agent tool is only as reliable as the interface behind it. Undocumented system behavior becomes undocumented agent behavior.
Failure modes decide outcomes
Timeouts, partial writes, rate limits and silent truncation decide whether an agent recovers or compounds the error.
Limits belong in the interface
What an agent may do should be enforced where the call is made, with a test that proves the refusal.
From unknown system to agent tool.
Map what is available
The real capabilities, documented or not, with their side effects.
Build the interface deliberately
A typed client for the capabilities the agent needs, nothing more, with the limits you choose.
Test it against the real system
Conformance tests for every call the agent makes, including the failure paths.
Watch upstream
Re-run the tests when the system changes. Fix the interface once, not every workflow.
Where Foundry fits.
Every finding carries its evidence state: verified, observed, inferred or open. How we work.
Make systems agent-ready
A capability map and tested interfaces for the actions you choose to permit.
Generate SDKs and integration clients
Typed clients with conformance tests, so the agent calls a contract rather than a guess.
Watch for change
Change reports and compatibility checks when the upstream system moves.
Reading for your situation.
What to establish before connecting an AI agent to a sensitive system
The facts, boundaries and tests to have in place before an AI agent is allowed to act on a system that matters.
Why generated SDKs need conformance tests
Why an SDK generated from a specification can still be wrong, and what a conformance suite must cover before anyone builds on it.
Next step.
Name the system and the actions. We tell you what a defined engagement delivers.