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Re:Claude Advanced Tool Use by wrs on Monday November 24, 2025 @04:43PM (#46039736)
Because it solves all sorts of other problems, like having a well-defined way to specify the schema of queries and results, and lots of tools built around that.

I would be surprised to see many (or any) GQL endpoints in systems with significant complexity and scale that allow completely arbitrary requests.

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Re:Claude Advanced Tool Use by lkbm on Monday November 24, 2025 @04:56PM (#46039867)
Shopify's GraphQL API limits you in complexity (essentially max number of fields returned), but it's basically arbitrary shapes.
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Re:Claude Advanced Tool Use by mattmanser on Monday November 24, 2025 @06:15PM (#46040554)
OpenAPI does the same thing for http requests, with tooling around it.

With typed languages you can auto-generate OpenAPI schemas from your code.

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Re:Claude Advanced Tool Use by wrs on Monday November 24, 2025 @10:01PM (#46041919)
Yep, OpenAPI is also a good choice nowadays. That’s typically used with the assumption you’ve chosen a supported subset of queries. With GQL you have to add that on top.
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