# Administrative Conference of the United States

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/administrative-conference-of-the-united-states/  
**Website:** https://www.acus.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) is an independent federal agency within the executive branch whose statutory mission is to identify ways to improve the procedures by which federal agencies administer regulatory, benefit, and other government programs. ACUS issues approximately a dozen recommendations per year to agencies, Congress, the President, and the Judicial Conference, aimed at enhancing efficiency and fairness in administrative procedures. The agency maintains the Federal Administrative Adjudication Database (with Stanford Law School), the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) online database, and various open data resources under the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018.

## Kin Score — 10.4 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) Database** — ACUS maintains an online database of Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) awards, tracking awards of attorney's fees and other costs against the United States government. ACUS col...
- **Federal Administrative Adjudication Database** — A joint project between ACUS and Stanford Law School, the Federal Administrative Adjudication Database provides comprehensive data on federal agency adjudication processes acros...

## Security (1)

- **Administrative Conference Of The United States Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Administrative Conference Of The United States Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Administrative Law Research** — Legal researchers, law schools, and practitioners can access ACUS recommendations, reports, and the adjudication database to study trends in federal administrative law and regul...
- **Regulatory Process Benchmarking** — Federal agencies can use ACUS recommendations and research to benchmark their regulatory and adjudicative procedures against best practices and ACUS-recommended reforms.
- **EAJA Litigation Cost Analysis** — Researchers and policymakers can use the EAJA database to analyze government litigation costs, identify agencies with high fee award rates, and evaluate the effectiveness of EAJ...
- **Rulemaking Process Reform** — Congressional staff and agency officials can draw on ACUS reports and model rules for guidance on improving rulemaking procedures, notice-and-comment processes, and public parti...
- **Government Efficiency Analysis** — Public interest organizations and policy researchers can use ACUS data and publications to analyze opportunities for improving government administrative processes and reducing r...

## Tags

Federal-Government, Regulatory Reform, Administrative Law, Government Efficiency, Open Data, Policy Research

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/administrative-conference-of-the-united-states/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.