# FDC3 Desktop Agent API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/fdc3/desktop-agent-api/  
**Provider:** FDC3 — https://apis.io/providers/fdc3/  
**Base URL:** https://fdc3.finos.org  
**Documentation:** https://fdc3.finos.org/docs/api/spec

FDC3 Desktop Agent API is one of 6 APIs that [FDC3](https://apis.io/providers/fdc3/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Desktop Agent, Intents, Context Sharing, Channels, and Financial-Services. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a GitHub repository, and a changelog.

The FDC3 Desktop Agent API is the primary interface for application interoperability on the financial desktop. It provides a JavaScript/TypeScript API that applications use to open other applications, raise intents to request functionality from peer apps, broadcast typed context data on channels, listen for incoming context and intents, discover available applications and their capabilities, and create private two-party communication channels. Desktop Agents implement this API and expose it to the applications they host.

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **Documentation** — https://fdc3.finos.org/docs/api/spec
- **Reference** — https://fdc3.finos.org/docs/api/ref/DesktopAgent
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/finos/FDC3
- **TypeScriptSDK** — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@finos/fdc3
- **ChangeLog** — https://github.com/finos/FDC3/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- **OpenSource** — https://github.com/finos/FDC3/blob/main/LICENSE.md
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fdc3/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other FDC3 APIs (5)

- [FDC3 App Directory API](https://apis.io/apis/fdc3/app-directory-api/)
- [FDC3 Context Data](https://apis.io/apis/fdc3/context-data/)
- [FDC3 Intents](https://apis.io/apis/fdc3/intents/)
- [FDC3 Desktop Agent Bridging](https://apis.io/apis/fdc3/desktop-agent-bridging/)
- [FDC3 Application API](https://apis.io/apis/fdc3/fdc3-application-api/)

## Tags

Desktop Agent, Intents, Context Sharing, Channels, Financial-Services, Open Standard

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