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The Agent Hype is at Odds with Your API Foundation (Nordic APIs Summit 2026)

Kin Lane's closing talk at Nordic APIs Summit 2026 in Stockholm. Scoring roughly 25,000 API providers on two independent instruments, the Kin Score and Agent Readiness, shows that readiness is a layer, and a layer does not rise above its foundation. Shipping an MCP server on top of an ungoverned API does not move the number.

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