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Connect Your AI Agent to APIs and MCP Servers - AI Agents Day 23

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CLIs, APIs, and MCPs Explained for AI Agents

4:16 with Daniel Montgomery

Compare three common ways to connect an agent to external services. Learn what each option provides, when to use it, and how to think about access, configuration, and reliability.

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    At this point, we have our custom AI agent up and running, but right now, most of 0:00
    what our agent can do is based on the information and capabilities we've already given it. 0:04
    If we want our agent to become more useful, eventually we're going to want it 0:08
    to interact with other tools and services. 0:11
    Maybe we want it to access information from another application, retrieve data 0:14
    from a service, or perform an action on our behalf. 0:18
    To do that, we need some way for our agent to communicate with those outside services. 0:21
    And there's three terms you're going to see pretty often when doing this. 0:26

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