Markets · frontier market · provisional

AI Agent Tools (MCP servers, A2A agents)

Frontier, a protocol directory (mcp registry) beside providers' own declarations, with mediation by gateways. The Kin Score Market layer reads each provider in its market: who it integrates with, how deep those integrations go, and where the market publishes its own structure. Methodology.

46providers measured

31 (67.4%)declare their own

3 (6.5%)covered by others only

1 (2.2%)distribution only (sell through, not integrations)

11 (23.9%)undeclared

4declare compatibility (report only, not weighted)

Provisional. Provisional and unweighted: the Market layer is not part of the composite or agent readiness. Leader lists are read within a position, never as one ranking. A provider that declares nothing we can read is shown as undeclared, with no number: we never infer integrations.

Where this market publishes its structure

Official MCP Registry /v0/servers (verified reverse-DNS namespace = publisher domain) machine-readable
a2aregistry.org /api/agents machine-readable
Catalog mcp/*-mcp.yml and a2a/*-a2a.yml (providers' own surfaces, harvested) machine-readable
Smithery, Glama, mcp.so, Composio, Zapier MCP, Pipedream catalogs not machine-readable: reported as mediation from the registry only; their own catalogs not swept
io.github.* registry namespaces (62.6% of servers) not machine-readable: GitHub-login verified, no domain; linked only by a non-shared remote domain

Own = declares at least one integration itself; covered = visible only because an aggregator, standards body, regulator or partner contract names it; distribution-only = listed only on cloud marketplaces it sells through, a channel reported beside, never counted as its own declared integrations; undeclared = nothing we can read, so no number; declares_compatibility = providers with a `compatible` shape vote, report only (kin, 2026-10-13): never counted as own, never in depth or position.

Taxonomy how this market maps onto apis.io

Derived 2026-10-15 from the 46 providers in this market we could resolve in the catalog. The percentage is the share of those providers carrying each one; it describes the market, not the tag or industry. Tag groups have no page of their own yet, so they are listed unlinked.

Tags	MCP 22%
Tag groups	MCP 39%, Messaging 22%
Industries	Developer Tools & DevOps 41%, Artificial Intelligence 37%, Data & Analytics 30%, Cybersecurity & Identity 22%, Telecommunications & Connectivity 22%
Areas	Workflow Automation 17%, AI Automation 15%
Capabilities	Cybersecurity Management 48%, Developer Platform & API Ecosystem Management 41%, Software Release & Deployment Management 26%

share of resolved cohort carrying it; tags >=0.20 & >=3 members (max 12, junk dropped), tag_groups >=0.20 (cooccurrence, non-cross-cutting; max 8), industries >=0.20 (max 6), areas >=0.10 (max 6; areas are keyword-matched and sparse), capabilities L1 >=0.20 (max 8); derive-market-taxonomy.py

Leaders by position (provisional)

Provisional: grouped by position, depth compared within a position only. Distribution (cloud marketplaces) and iPaaS bridges are counted beside position, never inside it. Unknown-builder listings are left out of position shares and counted here.

gravity 5 · other companies invest to build on it

Provider	Depth	Integrations	In / out	iPaaS bridge	Mix
Stripe	59.8	117	17 / 100	30	partner-built 24%, provider-built 4%, ipaas-bridge 42%, contract 23%, covered 4%, builds-on-platform 3%
Salesforce	57.7	87	33 / 54	30	partner-built 46%, provider-built 24%, ipaas-bridge 21%, contract 6%, covered 3%, builds-on-platform 1%
Adobe	53.9	77	39 / 38	30	partner-built 54%, ipaas-bridge 38%, contract 1%, covered 4%, builds-on-platform 4%
GitHub	51.8	173	137 / 36	30	partner-built 81%, provider-built 1%, ipaas-bridge 17%, builds-on-platform 1%
GitHub Actions	51.8	199	198 / 1	0	partner-built 99%, provider-built 1%

builds-on 11 · publishes apps on other platforms' stores

Provider	Depth	Integrations	In / out	Distribution	iPaaS bridge	Mix
Dynatrace	53.0	3	0 / 3	0	0	standard 33%, builds-on-platform 67%
LaunchDarkly	52.6	12	0 / 12	0	0	covered 33%, builds-on-platform 67%
Sentry	52.4	5	0 / 5	0	0	standard 20%, covered 20%, builds-on-platform 60%
Snyk	51.8	5	0 / 5	0	0	builds-on-platform 100%
Acronis	44.1	3	0 / 3	2	0	builds-on-platform 50%, distribution 50%
Confluent	34.5 thin	2	0 / 2	0	0	builds-on-platform 100%
Harness	34.5 thin	2	0 / 2	0	0	builds-on-platform 100%
OutSystems	26.8 thin	2	0 / 2	2	0	builds-on-platform 33%, distribution 67%
Postman	24.3	26	0 / 26	0	12	ipaas-bridge 71%, builds-on-platform 29%
Redocly	17.2 thin	1	0 / 1	0	0	builds-on-platform 100%
Tray.ai	17.2 thin	1	0 / 1	0	0	builds-on-platform 100%

coverage 2 · reaches banks, carriers, systems or channels (an aggregator)

Provider	Depth	Integrations	In / out	Unknown builder	Distribution	iPaaS bridge	Mix
GitLab	47.7	74	0 / 74	0	0	30	ipaas-bridge 42%, coverage 54%, builds-on-platform 4%
Infobip	47.7	45	0 / 45	0	1	30	ipaas-bridge 67%, standard 2%, coverage 27%, covered 2%, distribution 2%

covered 7 · reached mainly through aggregators

Provider	Depth	Integrations	In / out	Distribution	iPaaS bridge	Mix
Snowflake	54.2	42	0 / 42	5	30	ipaas-bridge 65%, contract 4%, covered 13%, builds-on-platform 7%, distribution 11%
Amazon DynamoDB	53.6	3	0 / 3	0	0	covered 100%
OpenAI	53.2	47	0 / 47	0	30	ipaas-bridge 68%, contract 5%, covered 25%, builds-on-platform 2%
MongoDB	51.9	6	0 / 6	0	0	covered 50%, builds-on-platform 50%
ElevenLabs	51.8	5	0 / 5	0	0	covered 100%
Cloudflare	51.7	7	0 / 7	0	0	covered 71%, builds-on-platform 29%
Amazon SES	38.3 thin	2	0 / 2	0	0	contract 50%, covered 50%

core 3 · builds the connectors its customers need

Provider	Depth	Integrations	In / out	Distribution	iPaaS bridge	Mix
HubSpot	57.3	91	9 / 82	1	30	partner-built 13%, provider-built 41%, ipaas-bridge 32%, contract 8%, covered 3%, builds-on-platform 2%, distribution 1%
Telnyx	48.9	8	0 / 8	0	0	provider-built 38%, coverage 25%, covered 25%, builds-on-platform 12%
Ada	29.5	13	0 / 13	2	0	provider-built 85%, distribution 15%

mixed 3 · no single mode dominates

Provider	Depth	Integrations	In / out	Distribution	iPaaS bridge	Mix
Twilio	51.8	50	0 / 50	0	30	ipaas-bridge 71%, contract 7%, coverage 14%, covered 5%, builds-on-platform 2%
Brevo	46.2	53	0 / 53	0	0	provider-built 23%, own-page 42%, agent-tooling 32%, covered 4%
Algolia	38.2	20	0 / 20	2	9	own-page 25%, ipaas-bridge 45%, covered 10%, builds-on-platform 10%, distribution 10%

list 3 · a long list on its own page, mostly unevidenced

Provider	Depth	Integrations	In / out	Distribution	iPaaS bridge	Mix
Optimizely	41.2	339	0 / 339	0	0	own-page 98%, covered 1%, builds-on-platform 1%
Customer.io	30.9	13	0 / 13	0	0	own-page 69%, covered 15%, builds-on-platform 15%
ZoomInfo	26.0	212	0 / 212	1	30	own-page 85%, ipaas-bridge 14%

distribution 1 · only sells through cloud marketplaces

Provider	Depth	Integrations	In / out	Unknown builder	Distribution	iPaaS bridge	Mix
CData	9.6 thin	1	0 / 1	0	1	0	distribution 100%

undeclared 11 · declares nothing we can read: no number

Provider	Depth	Integrations	In / out	Unknown builder	Distribution	iPaaS bridge
Agoragentic	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
AhaSend	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
Airwallex	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
APIs.io	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
Appwrite	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
Datadog APM	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
Kinde	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
Losant	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
Nylas	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-
Xquik	undeclared	-	-	-	-	-

Frontier timeline DRAFT · report only — not weighted

DRAFT: alignment readings (MARKET-LAYER.md §12). Nothing is weighted until it holds across at least four weekly snapshots. 1 weekly snapshot(s) so far.

2026-10-14 anchor shape: mcp

Generated 2026-10-15 from API Evangelist's own files; nothing on this page is a model's judgement. Provisional and unweighted; not part of the Kin Score composite or agent readiness. Read the Market layer methodology. Disagree with an edge? Every edge cites its evidence and can be corrected through the normal correction path.