At TDX London, Salesforce announced the Named Query API Pilot to simplify data access for Agents and Apps.
With the Named Query API Pilot you can easily define named SOQL queries that return data in your org, and then create custom agent actions from these queries. Then your agents can use these custom actions to read data from your org. Named Query API provides a far simpler and faster way for your agents to access data in your org. Additionally, these named queries are also available as REST APIs, simplifying how you can make data available to applications.
This blog describes the steps you follow to configure and use the Named Query API Pilot.
If you are interested in trying the Named Query API Pilot and providing feedback, contact your account team to sign you up.
I like the idea of the Named Query API for easy being able to create and expose data (via REST). However, I wish there was an option to be able to hide the standard attributes from the response.
A use case when this when one is being called by an external system and you want to obfiscate the internal SF structure. Including the attribute.url for example encourages linking directly do the underlying objects...which I don't want
