# Inrupt Access Grant Service (VC API)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/inrupt/access-grant/  
**Provider:** Inrupt — https://apis.io/providers/inrupt/  
**Base URL:** https://vc.inrupt.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.inrupt.com/ess/services/service-access-grant

Inrupt Access Grant Service (VC API) is one of 6 APIs that [Inrupt](https://apis.io/providers/inrupt/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Verifiable Credentials, Consent, Authorization, and Access Grants. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The ESS Access Grant Service issues, queries, verifies, derives and status-checks W3C Verifiable Credentials that carry Access Requests and Access Grants — the consent receipts that authorize one agent to read another agent's Pod resources. The service publishes its endpoint map at /.well-known/vc-configuration; on PodSpaces that is https://vc.inrupt.com, which advertises the /issue, /status, /verify, /derive and /query services and Ed25519Signature2020 proofs.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.inrupt.com/ess/services/service-access-grant
- **WellKnown** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/inrupt/refs/heads/main/well-known/inrupt-vc-configuration.json

## Other Inrupt APIs (5)

- [Inrupt Change Notifications API (ESS Notification Delivery Service)](https://apis.io/apis/inrupt/notification-delivery/)
- [Inrupt Pod Storage API (Solid Protocol)](https://apis.io/apis/inrupt/pod-storage/)
- [Inrupt Solid OpenID Provider](https://apis.io/apis/inrupt/solid-oidc/)
- [Inrupt ESS MCP Resource Service](https://apis.io/apis/inrupt/mcp-resource/)
- [Inrupt ESS Platform Management API](https://apis.io/apis/inrupt/platform-management/)

## Tags

Verifiable Credentials, Consent, Authorization, Access Grants

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/inrupt/access-grant/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/inrupt/.