Comment by yard2010
14 hours ago
Honest question, Claude can understand and call REST APIs with docs, what is the added value? Why should anyone wrap a REST API with another layer? What does it unlock?
14 hours ago
Honest question, Claude can understand and call REST APIs with docs, what is the added value? Why should anyone wrap a REST API with another layer? What does it unlock?
Gatekeeping (in a good way) and security. I use Claude Code in the way you described but I also understand why you wouldn’t want Claude to have this level of access in production.
Ironically models are sometimes more apt at calling REST or web APIs in general because that is a huge part of their training data.