Start review with a contract diff
Before running the application, compare every generated path, method, parameter, and response access with the pinned OpenAPI document. This catches a common class of confident mistakes: plausible endpoints from another provider, singular resources where the contract uses collections, camelCase fields where JSON uses snake_case, or a planned capability treated as available.
Keep the contract revision beside the generated client or test output. If the service changes, regenerate intentionally and review the diff. Do not let a package update or a fresh prompt silently rewrite types. The goal is not merely code that compiles; it is code whose assumptions are traceable to the version of the API you accepted.
Make failure paths part of acceptance
A happy-path fixture proves very little about production behavior. Test a missing bearer token, revoked key, unknown stable ID, invalid date, rate limit, temporary service failure, empty collection, and malformed response at your own boundary. Confirm that retries happen only where safe and that the UI distinguishes empty data from an error.
Scan generated source, compiled browser assets, logs, snapshots, and test recordings for credential shapes. Ensure timeouts exist for connection and total request duration. Then run one end-to-end request through the real HTTP boundary in an isolated environment. A human reviewer should inspect both the retained JSON and the user-facing wording before approving the integration.
- Contract: route, method, parameters, fields, pagination.
- Security: server-side secret, redaction, least-privilege tool exposure.
- Reliability: timeout, bounded retry, cache key, quota behavior.
- Product: loading, empty, stale, partial, and unavailable states.
A handoff your agent can actually follow
Treat an AI agent as a planner and transformer, not as the database. Give it a narrow task, the exact resources it may call, the response fields it may quote, and a stop condition for missing data. Keep bearer credentials in the server-side tool implementation rather than in the prompt, transcript, browser, or generated source file.
The handoff below is deliberately operational. It asks for evidence before prose, makes uncertainty visible, and keeps the model inside the current football API contract. Adapt the output format to your product, but preserve the rules about stable IDs, UTC timestamps, freshness, and error handling.
Generate tests before changing integration code.
Derive routes and fields from /openapi.json.
Cover one successful response plus 401, 404, 422, 429, and 503.
Assert that API keys never appear in URLs, logs, browser bundles, snapshots, or stored fixtures.What the human reviewer still owns
Automation can verify schemas and repeatable checks, but publication and product decisions still need a person. Review the selected competition, season, team, and match IDs; confirm that the time window matches the user’s question; and read the final answer against the retrieved JSON. A fluent explanation is not evidence that the underlying call was correct.
For time-sensitive football AI, record when the source was ingested and when the agent retrieved it. If the workflow cannot establish those timestamps, qualify the result instead of presenting it as current. The same rule applies to unavailable capabilities: do not quietly substitute fixtures or results for lineups, player statistics, odds, expected goals, injuries, or live events.
- Confirm every quoted fact appears in the retained API response.
- Exercise the empty, 401, 404, 429, and 503 paths before launch.
- Keep model interpretation separate from source facts in logs and user-facing output.
- Run the generated tests against a disposable environment and inspect failures; never let the same model waive its own failing assertions.
Continue with the contract, not a guess
Start with the public contract and coverage ledger, then move into implementation only when the capability you need is marked available. The related guide gives your next agent-first pattern without requiring an undocumented endpoint.