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What 6 leading Community & Forums apps are built on: the providers each one ships in its code or lists as an integration, grouped by layer and capability, and joined to the catalog.

6 reference apps 92 providers 59 observed in code 33 declared only 97.8% in the catalog 50.2 mean Kin Score 38 with a verified MCP server

How to read this. observed the integration ships in the app (SDK in a dependency file, source code, or an Android build analysis). declared the app names the integration itself (README, integrations page, store listing). Every row links the source it was read from. Providers not yet in the catalog are marked queued for profiling. Blueprint by API Evangelist, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Capabilities marked Turbo EA come from Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet, CC BY 4.0 (notice); those marked API Evangelist extension are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

domain layer 8 capabilities

Team Chat Bridging 12 providers · AE-150.40.10 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Slack	observed [1] [2]	Circle, Discourse	73.2 exemplar	38.7 agent-ready	verified
Webex	observed [1]	Discourse	64.1 strong	61.1 agent-ready	verified
Microsoft Teams	observed [1]	Discourse	56.2 strong	34.2 agent-ready	none found
Google Chat	observed [1]	Discourse	51.6 developing	19.6 agent-aware	verified
Telegram	observed [1]	Discourse	38.0 thin	19.6 agent-aware	none found
Mattermost	observed [1]	Discourse	37.2 thin	25.7 agent-aware	verified
GroupMe	observed [1]	Discourse	34.7 thin	25.9 agent-aware	none found
Zulip	observed [1]	Discourse	33.2 thin	25.6 agent-aware	verified
Matrix	observed [1]	Discourse	30.1 thin	20.1 agent-aware	none found
Guilded	observed [1]	Discourse	9.9 minimal	13.7 agent-aware	—
Gitter	observed [1]	Discourse	4.7 minimal	0.0 human-only	none found
Rocket.Chat	observed [1]	Discourse	2.2 minimal	0.0 human-only	verified

Link Unfurling & Rich Embeds 9 providers · AE-170.70.10 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Twitter / X	declared [1]	Circle	73.0 exemplar	61.2 agent-native	verified
Wistia	declared [1]	Circle	71.5 exemplar	35.7 agent-ready	documented
Instagram	declared [1]	Circle	67.4 exemplar	38.9 agent-ready	none found
YouTube	declared [1]	Circle	59.6 strong	38.4 agent-ready	none found
Spotify	declared [1]	Circle	48.4 developing	33.3 agent-ready	none found
Vimeo	declared [1]	Circle	36.8 thin	48.8 agent-ready	documented
SoundCloud	declared [1]	Circle	29.4 thin	26.4 agent-aware	none found
Simplecast	declared [1]	Circle	25.6 emerging	19.6 agent-aware	unknown
Loom	declared [1]	Circle	19.7 emerging	0.6 human-only	none found

Social & Federated Login 9 providers · AE-160.10.30 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
GitHub	observed [1]	Discourse	81.8 exemplar	63.4 agent-ready	verified
LinkedIn	observed [1]	Discourse	74.8 exemplar	44.4 agent-ready	none found
Twitter / X	observed [1]	Discourse	73.0 exemplar	61.2 agent-native	verified
Microsoft	observed [1]	Discourse	60.0 strong	26.4 agent-aware	none found
Sign in with Apple	observed [1]	Discourse	55.2 strong	31.9 agent-ready	none found
Login with Amazon	observed [1]	Discourse	47.3 developing	46.8 agent-ready	verified
Discord	observed [1]	Discourse	46.4 developing	30.6 agent-ready	none found
Facebook	observed [1]	Discourse	42.7 developing	28.2 agent-aware	none found
Google sign-in	observed [1]	Discourse	36.8 thin	19.6 agent-aware	none found

Bot Protection & CAPTCHA 3 providers · AE-160.70 · API Evangelist extension

Bot Protection & CAPTCHA capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Akismet queued for profiling	observed [1] [2]	Flarum, NodeBB	—	—	—
Project Honey Pot	observed [1]	NodeBB	24.9 emerging	7.9 agent-aware	—
StopForumSpam	observed [1]	NodeBB	16.1 emerging	0.0 human-only	—

Subscription & Entitlement Management 4 providers · BC-3750.20 · Turbo EA

Subscription & Entitlement Management capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Memberstack	declared [1]	Circle	43.9 developing	26.8 agent-aware	verified
MemberSpace	declared [1]	Circle	23.6 emerging	10.8 agent-aware	—
Memberful	declared [1]	Circle	12.9 emerging	0.6 human-only	none found
Outseta queued for profiling	declared [1]	Circle	—	—	—

Machine Translation 2 providers · AE-110.40.10 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
DeepL	observed [1]	Mastodon	59.8 strong	36.4 agent-ready	verified
LibreTranslate	observed [1]	Mastodon	26.2 thin	23.8 agent-aware	verified

Online Courses 2 providers · AE-220.10 · API Evangelist extension

Online Courses capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Teachable	declared [1]	Circle	49.9 developing	29.2 agent-ready	none found
Kajabi	declared [1]	Circle	42.1 developing	53.0 agent-ready	documented

Creator Monetisation 1 providers · AE-170.40 · API Evangelist extension

Creator Monetisation capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Patreon	observed [1]	Discourse	32.6 thin	25.9 agent-aware	none found

common layer 26 capabilities

Managed Operational Databases 3 providers · AE-915 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Redis	observed [1] [2] [3]	Discourse, Mastodon, NodeBB	47.4 developing	49.8 agent-native	verified
PostgreSQL	observed [1] [2] [3]	Lemmy, Mastodon, NodeBB	12.2 emerging	0.6 human-only	none found
MongoDB	observed [1]	NodeBB	80.6 exemplar	56.0 agent-ready	verified

Bot Protection & CAPTCHA 3 providers · AE-160.70 · API Evangelist extension

Bot Protection & CAPTCHA capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
hCaptcha	observed [1] [2] [3]	Discourse, Mastodon, NodeBB	30.6 thin	17.9 agent-aware	none found
Google reCAPTCHA	observed [1] [2]	Discourse, NodeBB	48.1 developing	24.6 agent-aware	none found
Cloudflare Turnstile	observed [1]	NodeBB	27.3 thin	23.1 agent-aware	verified

Storage Management 3 providers · BC-600.50.20 · Turbo EA

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Amazon S3	observed [1] [2]	Discourse, Mastodon	70.8 exemplar	23.3 agent-aware	verified
Azure Blob Storage	observed [1]	Mastodon	55.5 strong	26.9 agent-aware	verified
OpenStack Swift	observed [1]	Mastodon	36.1 thin	19.6 agent-aware	none found

Email Marketing Sends 3 providers · AE-150.10.20 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
ConvertKit (Kit)	declared [1]	Circle	79.7 exemplar	64.4 agent-ready	none found
Mailchimp	declared [1]	Circle	78.8 exemplar	42.3 agent-ready	none found
ActiveCampaign	declared [1]	Circle	78.2 exemplar	53.7 agent-ready	documented

Payment Processing Management 3 providers · BC-1340.20 · Turbo EA

Payment Processing Management capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Stripe	declared [1]	Circle	82.7 exemplar	58.5 agent-native	verified
ThriveCart	declared [1]	Circle	69.1 exemplar	37.9 agent-ready	none found
PayPal	declared [1]	Circle	52.9 developing	37.1 agent-ready	verified

Workflow Automation & iPaaS 3 providers · AE-910 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Microsoft Power Automate	observed [1]	Discourse	57.0 strong	34.2 agent-ready	none found
Zapier	declared [1]	Circle	73.7 exemplar	66.2 agent-ready	verified
Make	declared [1]	Circle	41.4 developing	43.9 agent-ready	verified

Customer Relationship Management 2 providers · BC-420 · Turbo EA

Customer Relationship Management capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
HubSpot	declared [1]	Circle	94.8 exemplar	52.7 agent-ready	verified
Salesforce	declared [1]	Circle	90.4 exemplar	54.7 agent-ready	verified

Spreadsheets & No-Code Databases 2 providers · AE-922 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Airtable	declared [1]	Circle	69.2 exemplar	50.3 agent-ready	verified
Google Sheets	declared [1]	Circle	57.0 strong	33.0 agent-ready	none found

Transactional Email 2 providers · AE-150.10.10 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Postmark	observed [1]	Flarum	70.3 exemplar	41.7 agent-ready	verified
Mailgun	observed [1]	Flarum	30.9 thin	19.0 agent-aware	verified

Content Management 1 providers · AE-170.70 · API Evangelist extension

Content Management capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
WordPress	declared [1]	Circle	46.0 developing	31.4 agent-ready	verified

Customer Service Management 1 providers · BC-430 · Turbo EA

Customer Service Management capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Zendesk	observed [1]	Discourse	72.8 exemplar	35.0 agent-ready	none found

Digital Marketing Management 1 providers · BC-400.60 · Turbo EA

Digital Marketing Management capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Facebook / Meta Pixel	declared [1]	Circle	42.7 developing	28.2 agent-aware	none found

IP Geolocation 1 providers · AE-120.50.10 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
MaxMind	observed [1]	Discourse	31.7 thin	17.9 agent-aware	none found

Image Processing & Optimisation 1 providers · AE-170.30.10 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
pict-rs	observed [1]	Lemmy	33.2 thin	21.9 agent-aware	—

No-Code App Builders 1 providers · AE-931 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Bubble	declared [1]	Circle	54.1 developing	20.9 agent-aware	none found

Observability Management 1 providers · BC-4220.20 · Turbo EA

Observability Management capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
OpenTelemetry	observed [1]	Mastodon	38.6 thin	27.3 agent-aware	none found

Online Forms & Survey Collection 1 providers · AE-921 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Typeform	declared [1]	Circle	37.6 thin	43.5 agent-ready	verified

Product Usage Analytics 1 providers · BC-4280.30 · Turbo EA

Product Usage Analytics capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Google Analytics	declared [1]	Circle	72.1 exemplar	41.8 agent-ready	verified

Push Notifications 1 providers · AE-150.30 · API Evangelist extension

Push Notifications capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Amazon SNS	observed [1]	Discourse	55.1 strong	29.4 agent-ready	verified

Realtime Messaging 1 providers · AE-150.70 · API Evangelist extension

Realtime Messaging capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Pusher	observed [1]	Flarum	38.6 thin	20.7 agent-aware	none found

Search and Discovery Management 1 providers · BC-830.20.30 · Turbo EA

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Elasticsearch	observed [1]	Mastodon	41.0 developing	25.8 agent-aware	verified

Subscription Billing & Revenue Management 1 providers · BC-4250 · Turbo EA

Subscription Billing & Revenue Management capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Stripe	observed [1]	Discourse	82.7 exemplar	58.5 agent-native	verified

Syndication & Affiliate Distribution 1 providers · BC-3740.60 · Turbo EA

Syndication & Affiliate Distribution capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Rewardful	declared [1]	Circle	68.2 exemplar	30.9 agent-ready	none found

Tag Management 1 providers · AE-911 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Google Tag Manager	declared [1]	Circle	63.6 strong	38.2 agent-ready	none found

Tenant Identity Federation 1 providers · BC-4230.50 · Turbo EA

Tenant Identity Federation capability

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Auth0	declared [1]	Circle	72.1 exemplar	39.9 agent-ready	verified

Video Hosting & Encoding 1 providers · AE-170.10.10 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
AWS Elemental MediaConvert	observed [1]	Discourse	61.8 strong	33.3 agent-ready	none found

agent layer 4 capabilities

Hosted LLM Inference 9 providers · AE-110.10.10 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Anthropic	observed [1]	Discourse	89.0 exemplar	47.6 agent-ready	verified
OpenAI	observed [1]	Discourse	83.0 exemplar	58.4 agent-native	verified
Hugging Face	observed [1]	Discourse	68.1 exemplar	37.6 agent-ready	verified
SambaNova	observed [1]	Discourse	60.3 strong	29.4 agent-ready	none found
Google Gemini	observed [1]	Discourse	55.1 strong	31.3 agent-ready	none found
Amazon Bedrock	observed [1]	Discourse	50.3 developing	35.8 agent-ready	verified
Google Vertex AI	observed [1]	Discourse	48.4 developing	24.6 agent-aware	verified
Mistral AI	observed [1]	Discourse	47.7 developing	28.8 agent-ready	none found
Cohere	observed [1]	Discourse	37.5 thin	41.4 agent-ready	none found

Model Routing & Gateways 1 providers · AE-110.10.30 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
OpenRouter	observed [1]	Discourse	53.5 developing	46.9 agent-ready	verified

On-Device & Edge Inference 1 providers · AE-110.10.40 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
Ollama	observed [1]	Discourse	36.3 thin	24.4 agent-aware	none found

OpenAI-Compatible Endpoints 1 providers · AE-110.10.20 · API Evangelist extension

Provider	Evidence	Apps	Kin Score	Agent readiness	MCP
vLLM	observed [1]	Discourse	24.7 emerging	19.6 agent-aware	none found

Reference apps

Discourse self-hosted

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

44 observed · 0 declared

observed ships the Amazon Bedrock SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Amazon S3 SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Amazon SNS SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Anthropic SDK or integration code source
observed ships the AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Cohere SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Discord SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Facebook SDK or integration code source
observed ships the GitHub SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Gitter SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Google Chat SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Google Gemini SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Google reCAPTCHA SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Google sign-in SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Google Vertex AI SDK or integration code source
observed ships the GroupMe SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Guilded SDK or integration code source
observed ships the hCaptcha SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Hugging Face SDK or integration code source
observed ships the LinkedIn SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Login with Amazon SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Matrix SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Mattermost SDK or integration code source
observed ships the MaxMind SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Microsoft SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Microsoft Power Automate SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Microsoft Teams SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Mistral AI SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Ollama SDK or integration code source
observed ships the OpenAI SDK or integration code source
observed ships the OpenRouter SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Patreon SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Redis SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Rocket.Chat SDK or integration code source
observed ships the SambaNova SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Sign in with Apple SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Slack SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Stripe SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Telegram SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Twitter / X SDK or integration code source
observed ships the vLLM SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Webex SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Zendesk SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Zulip SDK or integration code source

Read from: dependency manifest, source code, source code, source code, source code, source code

NodeBB self-hosted

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB

9 observed · 0 declared

observed ships the Akismet SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Cloudflare Turnstile SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Google reCAPTCHA SDK or integration code source
observed ships the hCaptcha SDK or integration code source
observed ships the MongoDB SDK or integration code source
observed ships the PostgreSQL SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Project Honey Pot SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Redis SDK or integration code source
observed ships the StopForumSpam SDK or integration code source

Read from: dependency manifest, source code

Flarum self-hosted

https://github.com/flarum/framework

4 observed · 0 declared

observed ships the Akismet SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Mailgun SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Postmark SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Pusher SDK or integration code source

Read from: source code, source code

Lemmy self-hosted

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

2 observed · 0 declared

observed ships the pict-rs SDK or integration code source
observed ships the PostgreSQL SDK or integration code source

Read from: source code

Mastodon self-hosted

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

10 observed · 0 declared

observed ships the Amazon S3 SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Azure Blob Storage SDK or integration code source
observed ships the DeepL SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Elasticsearch SDK or integration code source
observed ships the hCaptcha SDK or integration code source
observed ships the LibreTranslate SDK or integration code source
observed ships the OpenStack Swift SDK or integration code source
observed ships the OpenTelemetry SDK or integration code source
observed ships the PostgreSQL SDK or integration code source
observed ships the Redis SDK or integration code source

Read from: dependency manifest, source code, source code

Circle commercial

https://circle.so/

0 observed · 36 declared

declared lists ActiveCampaign as an integration source
declared lists Airtable as an integration source
declared lists Auth0 as an integration source
declared lists Bubble as an integration source
declared lists ConvertKit (Kit) as an integration source
declared lists Facebook / Meta Pixel as an integration source
declared lists Google Analytics as an integration source
declared lists Google Sheets as an integration source
declared lists Google Tag Manager as an integration source
declared lists HubSpot as an integration source
declared lists Instagram as an integration source
declared lists Kajabi as an integration source
declared lists Loom as an integration source
declared lists Mailchimp as an integration source
declared lists Make as an integration source
declared lists Memberful as an integration source
declared lists MemberSpace as an integration source
declared lists Memberstack as an integration source
declared lists Outseta as an integration source
declared lists PayPal as an integration source
declared lists Rewardful as an integration source
declared lists Salesforce as an integration source
declared lists Simplecast as an integration source
declared lists Slack as an integration source
declared lists SoundCloud as an integration source
declared lists Spotify as an integration source
declared lists Stripe as an integration source
declared lists Teachable as an integration source
declared lists ThriveCart as an integration source
declared lists Twitter / X as an integration source
declared lists Typeform as an integration source
declared lists Vimeo as an integration source
declared lists Wistia as an integration source
declared lists WordPress as an integration source
declared lists YouTube as an integration source
declared lists Zapier as an integration source

Read from: integrations page

What these apps expose to agents

Discourse: first-party MCP server (discourse/discourse-mcp); discourse-ai plugin brings BYO-LLM across 14 endpoint types declared source
Discourse: BYO-LLM: discourse-ai completion endpoints for Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock, Gemini, Vertex, Cohere, Mistral, OpenRouter, Ollama, vLLM, Hugging Face, SambaNova observed source

Where these apps are listed

apple-app-store: Social Networking
google-play: Social
awesome-selfhosted: Communication - Social Networks and Forums
slack-marketplace: Communication