Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
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Today we're launching Airbyte Agents (https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/), a unified data layer for agents to discover information and take action across operational systems.Here's a quick walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZosDytyf1fgAs agents move into real workflows, they need access to more tools (e.g.
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They're thin wrappers over APIs, so agents inherit their weak primitives and still get it wrong most of the time, especially when working across tools.An even deeper issue is that APIs assume you already know what to query (think endpoints, Object IDs, fields), whereas agents usually start one step earlier: they need first to discover what matters before they can even start...
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