Aclid

Aclid is a biosecurity and biosafety compliance automation platform for the synthetic biology supply chain. Gene synthesis providers, biofoundries and research institutions use Aclid to screen DNA/RNA orders for pathogenic, toxic and export-controlled sequence elements, to verify the customers placing those orders against international sanctions and watchlists, and to run and document the compliance review that regulators and the OSTP Framework for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening expect. The platform is delivered as a hosted dashboard plus a public REST API (api.aclid.bio) that initiates screens from FASTA, FASTQ, CSV or inline sequence payloads, returns structured findings with per-framework regulatory reason codes (US Commerce Control List, EU Dual-Use, Australia Group and others), manages customers and verifications, and issues hosted or embeddable customer-verification flows. Founded 2021 in New York by Kevin Flyangolts with scientific founder Harris H. Wang of Columbia University.

Aclid publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Endpoints API. Tagged areas include Biosecurity, Biosafety, Compliance, Synthetic Biology, and Life Sciences.

Aclid’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, authentication, sandbox, and 24 more developer resources.

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38.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready Front door AI 3/6 light Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

4 published contracts

BiosecurityBiosafetyCompliance Synthetic Biology Life SciencesDNA Sequence ScreeningSanctions Screening Export Control Biotechnology Risk Assessment KYC

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 38.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.3 / 15

Access Clarity 4.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 35/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Chemistry and Materials (chemical data depositors, materials-data APIs)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 1

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

Aclid Endpoints API

The Endpoints API from Aclid — 17 operation(s) for endpoints.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Aclid Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aclid Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Aclid Openapi Overlay

5 actions · servers · aclid-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Security Posture 3

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

Aclid Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Aclid Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Aclid Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Components

Scroll for all 7

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

DeclineCodes

DeclineCodes

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: aclid
name: Aclid
description: Aclid is a biosecurity and biosafety compliance automation platform for the synthetic biology supply chain. Gene
  synthesis providers, biofoundries and research institutions use Aclid to screen DNA/RNA orders for pathogenic, toxic and
  export-controlled sequence elements, to verify the customers placing those orders against international sanctions and watchlists,
  and to run and document the compliance review that regulators and the OSTP Framework for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening
  expect. The platform is delivered as a hosted dashboard plus a public REST API (api.aclid.bio) that initiates screens from
  FASTA, FASTQ, CSV or inline sequence payloads, returns structured findings with per-framework regulatory reason codes (US
  Commerce Control List, EU Dual-Use, Australia Group and others), manages customers and verifications, and issues hosted
  or embeddable customer-verification flows. Founded 2021 in New York by Kevin Flyangolts with scientific founder Harris H.
  Wang of Columbia University.
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/671c02ec6144c945bfc5aa9c/6727db79308f1e1139096dd3_Logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aclid/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-06'
modified: '2026-09-06'
tags:
- Biosecurity
- Biosafety
- Compliance
- Synthetic Biology
- Life Sciences
- DNA Sequence Screening
- Sanctions Screening
- Export Control
- Biotechnology
- Risk Assessment
- KYC
tags_raw:
- biosecurity
- biosafety
- compliance
- synthetic-biology
- life-sciences
- dna-sequence-screening
- sanctions-screening
- export-control
- biotechnology
- risk-assessment
- know-your-customer
apis:
- aid: aclid:aclid-endpoints-api
  name: Aclid Endpoints API
  description: The Endpoints API from Aclid — 17 operation(s) for endpoints.
  humanURL: https://api.aclid.bio/docs
  baseURL: https://api.aclid.bio
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Endpoints
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aclid-endpoints-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aclid.bio/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.aclid.bio/docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/aclid-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/aclid-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/aclid-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/aclid-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/aclid-data-model.yml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aclid-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aclid.bio/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.aclid.bio/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.aclid.bio/docs
- type: Login
  url: https://dash.aclid.bio
- type: Support
  url: https://www.aclid.bio/contact
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.aclid.bio/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.aclid.bio/privacy-policy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.aclid.bio
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/aclid-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/aclid-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/aclid-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/aclid-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/aclid-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/aclid-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/aclid-data-model.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/aclid-components.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/aclid-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aclid-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aclid-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/aclid-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/aclid-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/aclid-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/aclid-security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/aclid-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://dash.aclid.bio/.well-known/security.txt
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/aclid-sandbox.yml
- type: DeclineCodes
  url: errors/aclid-compliance-reason-codes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-06'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v3

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