ANSWER
How do you integrate an AI agent with a system that has no API?
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To integrate an AI agent with a system that has no API, look for another reliable read path in this order: database or read replica, scheduled export, shared file or message queue, and screen automation only as a last resort. If no read path exists, the honest answer is to reduce scope or decline the case before the contract.
Step by step
- Check database or read-replica access first.
- Then evaluate scheduled exports, shared files or queues.
- Use screen reading only as a documented last resort.
- Agree credential scope with security before designing the flow.
- Reduce the agent size or decline if no reliable path exists.
How an agent does this
AgenticosCore qualifies data access in the Diagnostic. Every credential and action used by the agent is recorded in the Trail, and the Brake stops execution immediately.
Frequently asked questions
Do you use RPA or screen reading?
Only as a last resort, with fragility stated up front. We prefer a smaller reliable scope to a brittle production robot.
What if the vendor blocks database access?
We evaluate exports, files and queues, then resize the case around what is truly reachable.
Primary sources
- AI RMF Core — NIST
- Managing legacy technology — UK Government