Stop Digging Through Docs! HttpAgent Launches the Workshop + AI Assistant Duo — HTTP Code, Now WYSIWYG

Make every HTTP request transparent.

Every .NET developer keeps a few browser tabs open permanently:

• The HTTP library docs, endlessly searching for API names;
• Fiddler, trying to see what the request actually sent;
• A search engine: "how to upload a file with xxx", "how to set a timeout in xxx"… and there goes the afternoon.

Don't blame yourself. The problem was never you — it's that libraries give you the tool, but nobody ever helped with the two most time-consuming parts: writing the code and debugging it.

HttpClient didn't solve it. Refit didn't solve it. RestSharp didn't solve it. They all focused on "how to send a request" and left "how to write it correctly, completely and transparently" to you.

Today, HttpAgent introduces two new species: the Workshop and the HttpAgent Assistant.

Pain point 1: sample code is dead, your parameters never match

The docs always show GetAsStringAsync("https://example.com"), but what you need is a real request with 8 query parameters, 3 custom headers, a 5-second timeout, 2 retries and the Profiler enabled.

So you copy the template → change the parameters → miss a comma → fix the build → change them again. A request that should take five minutes eats half an hour.

Solution 1: the Workshop — a visual code generator, WYSIWYG

Open the Workshop and you're facing not a wall of text, but a live form:

• Pick a method (GET / POST / PUT / DELETE… all 9 verbs);
• Fill in the URL, query parameters, headers, body and content type;
• Toggle the return type, timeout & retries, frozen parameters, the Profiler, digest authentication…

The moment you finish configuring, five code styles are generated simultaneously — copy whichever you like:

1. Builder — the fluent style;
2. Request predicate — the one-liner;
3. cURL command — export it backwards and send it to a teammate to reproduce;
4. Declarative interface — interfaces + attributes, the team favorite;
5. JSON config — FromJson, done in one shot.

Beginners never have to memorize an API name again; veterans skip mountains of boilerplate. This is something Refit, RestSharp and even raw HttpClient have never offered.

Pain point 2: no matter how complete the docs are, you just need that one line

Even the best documentation is a human searching for an answer: you must first know whether it lives in "2.13 Server-Sent Events" or "5.8 Timeout", then dig in, then locate three lines of code inside a thousand words of prose.

At 2 a.m. during a bug hunt, this is torture.

Solution 2: the HttpAgent Assistant — AI Q&A grounded in the official docs

At the bottom-right corner of the HttpAgent site now lives an assistant whose answers come 100% from the official documentation:

• Ask "how do I use SSE" → it returns the exact usage and code samples from the right section, with citation links at the end;
• Ask "how do I contact the author / sponsor the project" → email, WeChat and the support page;
• Ask "how does HttpAgent differ from Refit" → the full comparison, straight up;
• Ask "who are you" → it knows better than anyone.

It doesn't hallucinate from the open web — its retrieval source is the full site documentation (llms-full.txt, including every code sample), with an optional full-docs mode that feeds the entire manual to the model. Bring your own DeepSeek or OpenAI API key; the key stays in your browser and calls the provider directly — no server in between.

Why can't the others do this?

It's not that the technology is hard — the positioning is simply different:

• Refit poured its energy into "interface as API"; its ecosystem has no official visual generator and no documentation AI;
• RestSharp is a classic, battle-tested client — solid, but you still write and debug the code yourself;
• Raw HttpClient isn't even a library — it's just the base.

HttpAgent's answer: the library makes requests right, the Workshop writes the code right, and the Assistant answers your questions right. With the trio, the road from "can use" to "uses well" is paved for you.

Try it now

• 🛠️ Workshop — configure once, generate five ways, WYSIWYG;
• 🤖 The HttpAgent Assistant at the bottom-right — a living dictionary of the official docs;
• 📚 Docs — 560+ bilingual pages;
• ⭐ If it helps, give the project a star on GitHub so more people can stop digging through docs.

Make every HTTP request transparent — starting from writing the code.