API integrations and tools

Use this page when the main problem is API wiring, tool calling, browsing integration, SDK usage, or external system integration.

When to use API integrations and tools

• Use this page when the work is not just chat prompting but integration with an API, SDK, connector, retrieval layer, tool, or external service.
• Use it when correctness depends on tool parameters, auth boundaries, web access, storage, retrieval, or runtime validation.
• Use it when implementation needs to be checked against official vendor or platform documentation.

Before you start

• Know which API, SDK, tool, connector, or external system is involved.
• Know whether the integration reads data, writes data, calls tools, retrieves documents, or changes external state.
• Have official vendor documentation available when reviewing implementation correctness.

Core workflows

• Map workflow placement for API systems Use this when stable rules, reference material, retrieval, or runtime prompts need to be placed in an API architecture.
• Run the standards-backed implementation review Use this when implementation must be checked against official framework, runtime, API, or platform guidance.
• Run the engineering quality gate Use this when an integration change needs broader quality review.
• Request web browsing Pro Use this when a tool or API workflow depends on current public information.

Platform setup

Configure this topic in your AI tool

Use the platform mapping when this topic becomes a reusable workflow, project setup, assistant configuration, prompt file, knowledge source, or API/system instruction.

ChatGPT Projects, GPTs, Skills, files/sources, Custom Instructions, Memory, and runtime prompts. Open mapping → Claude Projects, Project Instructions, Project Knowledge, Skills, Claude Code surfaces, and runtime chat input. Open mapping → Gemini Gems, Gem instructions, Knowledge files, Memory, Connected Apps, AI Studio, Gemini API, Files API, File Search, and Vertex AI. Open mapping → API / internal systems System/developer instructions, retrieval, tools, orchestration, approvals, validation, evals, logging, and application state. Open mapping →

Also relevant in

• Prompt engineering
  The main problem is prompt wording, instruction structure, or reusable prompt design.
• AI assistants
  The main problem is assistant-product behavior rather than custom integration.
• Agents and workflows
  The main problem is orchestration, routing, or multi-step agent behavior.