99 Counties

99 Counties is a regenerative-agriculture meat company selling 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef and bison, pasture-raised pork, poultry, and lamb, plus wild-caught seafood, sourced from small family farms across Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Its Shopify storefront exposes an agent-native commerce surface implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) over a published MCP endpoint, alongside Shopify Customer Account OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect and standard read-only product and collection JSON. It was surfaced through the API Evangelist VC-portfolio pipeline and enriched from its live public agent-commerce surfaces.

99 Counties publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, E-Commerce, Agent Commerce, Regenerative Agriculture, and Food and Beverage.

99 Counties’ developer surface includes documentation, authentication, engineering blog, signup flow, and 13 more developer resources.

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23.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyE-CommerceAgent CommerceRegenerative AgricultureFood and BeverageShopifyModel Context ProtocolUniversal Commerce Protocol

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 23.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

99 Counties Commerce (UCP)

Agent-driven commerce for the 99 Counties Shopify store via the Universal Commerce Protocol over MCP — catalog search, cart, checkout, fulfillment, and buyer-approved order comp...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

99-counties-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

99 Counties Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 1 scheme

SECURITY

99 Counties Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

99 Counties Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: 99-counties
name: 99 Counties
description: 99 Counties is a regenerative-agriculture meat company selling 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef and bison,
  pasture-raised pork, poultry, and lamb, plus wild-caught seafood, sourced from small family farms across Iowa, Wisconsin,
  and Minnesota. Its Shopify storefront exposes an agent-native commerce surface implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol
  (UCP) over a published MCP endpoint, alongside Shopify Customer Account OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect and standard read-only
  product and collection JSON. It was surfaced through the API Evangelist VC-portfolio pipeline and enriched from its live
  public agent-commerce surfaces.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/99-counties/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0350/7175/4378/files/Beef_Sub_Nav_f7d12905-6f5c-4d2a-a699-a144b387aabc.jpg?v=1665766002
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Agent Commerce
- Regenerative Agriculture
- Food and Beverage
- Shopify
- Model Context Protocol
- Universal Commerce Protocol
apis:
- name: 99 Counties Commerce (UCP)
  description: Agent-driven commerce for the 99 Counties Shopify store via the Universal Commerce Protocol over MCP — catalog
    search, cart, checkout, fulfillment, and buyer-approved order completion.
  humanURL: https://99counties.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://99counties.com/api/ucp/mcp
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/99-counties-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/99-counties-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://99counties.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://99counties.com/agents.md
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/99-counties-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/99-counties-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/99-counties-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/99-counties-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/99-counties-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/99-counties-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/99-counties-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/99-counties-lifecycle.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/99-counties-ucp-shopping.md
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/99-counties-domain-security.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://99counties.com/blogs/news
- type: SignUp
  url: https://99counties.com/account/register
- type: Login
  url: https://99counties.com/account/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://99counties.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://99counties.com/policies/privacy-policy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence