vCenter alone exposes about 3,000 REST API paths. That number ended our first idea about AI operations. We tried the obvious thing: hand the agent the vendor API as tools. It drowns — context spent on routing instead of thinking. And one inventory call can return megabytes of JSON it reads as noise. Vendor APIs are built for programs, and for humans with documentation. Agents need something else: small, stable, searchable. #vmware #sysadmin #AIagents #AgenticOps #agentic