A hands-on exploration of programmatic API onboarding on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, comparing it to the ideal SoundCloud flow. The author walks through how Anypoint's Connected Apps and management API enable near-full automation of client application registration using a client_credentials OAuth grant — with one unavoidable manual step: creating the initial Connected App in the UI. A complete Node.js 18+ script is provided that mints a bearer token, registers a client application, and handles the already-registered case idempotently. The honest critique: Anypoint's plumbing is solid but still requires a human to bootstrap the first credential, which breaks true agentic self-serve onboarding.
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