Found at “From Data and APIs to Capabilities: The Abstraction the Agentic Era Is Settling On” on 2026-08-31T16:46:41+02:00.

In June 2023 — before MCP existed, before anyone was seriously designing for agents — Bruno Pedro asked what the unit of value in an API marketplace actually is:

“I believe the unit of value in APIs is a single capability and not the whole API… Consumers want the capabilities provided by the APIs, not the APIs themselves.”

He noticed something that reads differently now: every consumer platform had already invented its own word for the same object. Google and Apple called them Actions, Amazon Skills, ChatGPT Plugins. Four vendors, four words, one unit — and nobody was designing for agents. They were designing for consumers who wanted to do a thing, and the API was in the way.