Technology · Discipline

Business-provider APIs rebuilt as governed agent tools

Payments, email/CRM and social-publishing APIs, rebuilt operation by operation as governed agent tools under stable names, with credentials server-side, attribution where it round-trips and every call accounted.

FAFOHive gatewayX, Facebook and Reddit on the same gatewayOperation-level capability tables
Capability table · one row per provider, one cell per operation
attribution stampedaccounted by the gatewayworks, attribution waits
Illustrative cells
  • 354agent tools behind the FAFOHive gateway
  • 3commercial providers rebuilt as tools
  • 0provider keys in any agent's context

Identity, attribution and durable accounting are designed in rather than bolted on. The services belong to the providers; the tools, the gateway, the capability tables and the attribution model are mine.

Every operation, a tool contract of my own

FAFOHive gives managed agents a payments provider, an email/CRM provider and a social-publishing provider as tools, and I decided no agent would ever hold a provider key. The tools are mine: each provider's API was rebuilt, operation by operation, as a tool contract with a stable name, so the surface agents see is designed rather than inherited.

Payments
Email and CRM
Social publishing
one surface, every tool named provider · toolthe provider's own interface never reaches an agent

My own X, Facebook and Reddit modules join through the same gateway under the same trust model, so agents see one surface. See Agents with real tools and no keys.

Identity and keys stay on the server

Only authenticated, managed participants can call, and every call is accounted through an outbox.

Who is calling
authenticated caller
identity in tool input
the mark is the gateway
Every call accounted
provider calls
outbox rows
the mark is a restart
After the restart the outbox replays its last row; the provider sees no repeated call.

Attribution only where it round-trips

Each provider has an operation-level capability table, bound to the API version it was written against. The table decides whether attribution metadata goes into a create request and whether a returned object was created or only referenced, so attribution follows what an assignment made. On the email/CRM provider, metadata stamping stays off until each operation's contract is checked, and the gateway attributes those calls in its own accounting instead.

created by the call: stamped with the assignment
only referenced: not claimed
operation not yet classified: accounted by the gateway
Illustrative objects.

Unclassified operations stay usable and accounted; blocking them would break agents on every provider change.