Show HN: Jin – a machine-readable protocol making internet legible for AI

Category: infrastructure

Tags: ai-agents, api-gateway, protocol, security-middleware, web-scraping-alternative

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Jin is a standardized protocol and tooling layer that enables AI agents to interact with web APIs through a machine-readable intent map (jin.json) instead of fragile HTML scraping. It combines an open specification with security middleware, offering framework scanners for 12 popular backends and zero-latency JWT verification. The project is interesting because it addresses the growing need for structured agent-API communication, potentially reducing costs and fragility in AI integration workflows.

Target audience: backend devs, AI engineers, devops

Repository: https://github.com/meetjin/jin · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 · 1 stars

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