Agents Handbook

Agents Handbook provides curated AI agent playbooks that demonstrate real‑world jobs performed by agents such as Claude Code, ChatGPT Agent, and Cursor. Each playbook includes the full prompt, step‑by‑step instructions, common pitfalls, and source references, enabling developers to quickly adopt proven agent workflows. The platform also offers a searchable catalog, community contributions, and integration guidance for building AI‑driven applications.

Agents Handbook publishes 9 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Agents API, Contributors API, Lessons API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Agents, Playbooks, Automation, and Community.

The Agents Handbook catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Agents Handbook’s developer surface includes API reference and 15 more developer resources.

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25.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
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AccessOpen

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

Artificial Intelligence Agents Playbooks Automation Community

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 25.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 8.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 10.0 — up to +18.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 39.4 — up to +15.2 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 9

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

Agents Handbook Agents API

The Agents API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for agents.

Agents Handbook Contributors API

The Contributors API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for contributors.

Agents Handbook Lessons API

The Lessons API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for lessons.

Agents Handbook Playbooks API

The Playbooks API from Agents Handbook — 2 operation(s) for playbooks.

Agents Handbook Runs API

The Runs API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for runs.

Agents Handbook Search API

The Search API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for search.

Agents Handbook Stats API

The Stats API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for stats.

Agents Handbook Tasks API

The Tasks API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for tasks.

Agents Handbook Votes API

The Votes API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for votes.

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MCP Servers 1

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

Agents Handbook MCP Server

Remote MCP server at agentshandbook.com.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

agentshandbook

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Agents Handbook API Rules

10 rules · 8 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Agentshandbook Com Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Agentshandbook Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Agentshandbook Com Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Agentshandbook Com Agentic Access

12 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Spectral

ErrorCatalog

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: agentshandbook-com
name: Agents Handbook
description: Agents Handbook provides curated AI agent playbooks that demonstrate real‑world jobs performed by agents such
  as Claude Code, ChatGPT Agent, and Cursor. Each playbook includes the full prompt, step‑by‑step instructions, common pitfalls,
  and source references, enabling developers to quickly adopt proven agent workflows. The platform also offers a searchable
  catalog, community contributions, and integration guidance for building AI‑driven applications.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://agentshandbook.com/opengraph-image?c685b29e400fe3a5
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/agentshandbook-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-01 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-01'
modified: '2026-11-01'
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Agents
- Playbooks
- Automation
- Community
tags_raw:
- AI
- Agents
- Playbooks
- Automation
- Community
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/agentshandbook-com-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/agentshandbook-com-rules.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/agentshandbook-com-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/agentshandbook-com-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/agentshandbook-com-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/agentshandbook-com-mcp.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/agentshandbook-com-www-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/agentshandbook-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/agentshandbook-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/agentshandbook-com-vendors.yml
- type: APIReference
  url: https://agentshandbook.com/new
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/agentshandbook-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://agentshandbook.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://agentshandbook.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://agentshandbook.com/privacy
apis:
- aid: agentshandbook-com:agentshandbook-com-agents-api
  name: Agents Handbook Agents API
  description: The Agents API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for agents.
  humanURL: https://agentshandbook.com/
  baseURL: https://agentshandbook.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Agents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/agentshandbook-com-agents-api-openapi.yml
- aid: agentshandbook-com:agentshandbook-com-contributors-api
  name: Agents Handbook Contributors API
  description: The Contributors API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for contributors.
  humanURL: https://agentshandbook.com/
  baseURL: https://agentshandbook.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Contributors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/agentshandbook-com-contributors-api-openapi.yml
- aid: agentshandbook-com:agentshandbook-com-lessons-api
  name: Agents Handbook Lessons API
  description: The Lessons API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for lessons.
  humanURL: https://agentshandbook.com/
  baseURL: https://agentshandbook.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Lessons
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/agentshandbook-com-lessons-api-openapi.yml
- aid: agentshandbook-com:agentshandbook-com-playbooks-api
  name: Agents Handbook Playbooks API
  description: The Playbooks API from Agents Handbook — 2 operation(s) for playbooks.
  humanURL: https://agentshandbook.com/
  baseURL: https://agentshandbook.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Playbooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/agentshandbook-com-playbooks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: agentshandbook-com:agentshandbook-com-runs-api
  name: Agents Handbook Runs API
  description: The Runs API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for runs.
  humanURL: https://agentshandbook.com/
  baseURL: https://agentshandbook.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Runs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/agentshandbook-com-runs-api-openapi.yml
- aid: agentshandbook-com:agentshandbook-com-search-api
  name: Agents Handbook Search API
  description: The Search API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://agentshandbook.com/
  baseURL: https://agentshandbook.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/agentshandbook-com-search-api-openapi.yml
- aid: agentshandbook-com:agentshandbook-com-stats-api
  name: Agents Handbook Stats API
  description: The Stats API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for stats.
  humanURL: https://agentshandbook.com/
  baseURL: https://agentshandbook.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Stats
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/agentshandbook-com-stats-api-openapi.yml
- aid: agentshandbook-com:agentshandbook-com-tasks-api
  name: Agents Handbook Tasks API
  description: The Tasks API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for tasks.
  humanURL: https://agentshandbook.com/
  baseURL: https://agentshandbook.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Task
  tags_raw:
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/agentshandbook-com-tasks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: agentshandbook-com:agentshandbook-com-votes-api
  name: Agents Handbook Votes API
  description: The Votes API from Agents Handbook — 1 operation(s) for votes.
  humanURL: https://agentshandbook.com/
  baseURL: https://agentshandbook.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Votes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/agentshandbook-com-votes-api-openapi.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-01'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 27
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=oss,contract=oss,surfaces=oss,docs=oss,regulatory=oss

Agents Handbook API — frequently asked questions

Does Agents Handbook have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 9 APIs from Agents Handbook, including Agents Handbook Agents API, Agents Handbook Contributors API and Agents Handbook Lessons API, and 6 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Agents Handbook API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for Agents Handbook, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Agents Handbook API?

Agents Handbook documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Agentshandbook Com Authentication.

Does Agents Handbook have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Agents Handbook: Remote MCP server at agentshandbook.com.

Is the Agents Handbook API ready for AI agents?

Agents Handbook has a Kin Score of 25.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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