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EngineeringApril 2026 · 9 min read

One API in front of sixteen services

How a single integration surface hides the messy parts — provisioning, keys, billing — without leaking them to the app.

Behind Cohesivity sit sixteen very different services, each with its own setup, credentials and billing model. The job of the platform is to make all of that look like one thing to the agent calling it.

The trick isn’t hiding the services — it’s hiding the seams between them. An agent should ask for a database the same way it asks for email or hosting, and get back something ready to use, with the upstream credentials injected on the server side where the app never sees them.

A good integration surface is measured by what it lets you not think about.

Provisioning as one verb

Every service is reachable through the same provisioning step, so the agent’s mental model stays flat: ask, receive, use. Dependencies resolve automatically, and what comes back is active and ready rather than a set of instructions to follow.

Keys never travel

Credentials stay server-side. The agent calls Cohesivity; Cohesivity forwards the request with the right key attached. The app itself never holds a secret, which removes an entire category of mistakes.

One balance, many meters

Usage across every service settles against a single balance, and only successful work counts. That keeps billing legible no matter how many services a project quietly uses under the hood.

Build the thing you’re reading about.

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