AI agents, while becoming increasingly powerful, face significant challenges when interacting with real-world APIs due to complexities like authentication, schema translation, rate limits, and error handling, which can lead to frequent failures. To address these issues, an integrations platform is essential for translating human-like intents into structured API-specific executions, managing authentication securely, providing observability for debugging, and setting constraints to ensure reliable and secure operations. Such a platform introduces clear contracts to validate inputs and handle errors effectively, distinguishing production-ready agents from mere demos. While Model Context Protocols (MCPs) offer a framework for standardizing interactions, they fall short without the robust infrastructure provided by an integrations platform, which is crucial for deploying AI agents that work reliably across various SaaS tools and can be trusted by users.