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AgroSpheres

AgroSpheres is an agricultural biotechnology company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded by University of Virginia researchers, that develops bio-based crop protection products built on its AgriCell bioparticle platform. The company uses a single-step fermentation process that produces and biodegradably encapsulates biological actives all at once, giving added stability and a tunable release profile for targeted, non-toxic pest and disease control intended to be safe for pollinators, people and soil. Its first commercial product, the broad-spectrum biofungicide FUN-THYME, is marketed through an exclusive partnership with Wilbur-Ellis and was approved in California in 2026. AgroSpheres manufactures at a biomanufacturing facility in Charlottesville. It is a physical agricultural-inputs business and publishes no developer program, public API, or machine-readable API artifacts.

AgroSpheres is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Agriculture, Agricultural Technology, Biotechnology, and Crop Protection.

AgroSpheres’ developer surface includes product news and 4 more developer resources.

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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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CompanyAgricultureAgricultural TechnologyBiotechnologyCrop ProtectionBiologicalsManufacturing

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Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Agrospheres Domain Security

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: agrospheres
name: AgroSpheres
description: AgroSpheres is an agricultural biotechnology company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded by University
  of Virginia researchers, that develops bio-based crop protection products built on its AgriCell bioparticle platform. The
  company uses a single-step fermentation process that produces and biodegradably encapsulates biological actives all at once,
  giving added stability and a tunable release profile for targeted, non-toxic pest and disease control intended to be safe
  for pollinators, people and soil. Its first commercial product, the broad-spectrum biofungicide FUN-THYME, is marketed through
  an exclusive partnership with Wilbur-Ellis and was approved in California in 2026. AgroSpheres manufactures at a biomanufacturing
  facility in Charlottesville. It is a physical agricultural-inputs business and publishes no developer program, public API,
  or machine-readable API artifacts.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agrospheres/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/62333ec669078315d70a0478/62431435e48d5d211e7df3c4_webclip.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Agriculture
- Agricultural Technology
- Biotechnology
- Crop Protection
- Biologicals
- Manufacturing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/agrospheres-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.agrospheres.com/
- type: About
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- type: News
  url: https://www.agrospheres.com/news
- type: Email
  url: mailto:contact@agrospheres.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-06'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: AgroSpheres sells biological crop-protection inputs manufactured by fermentation, and its entire web presence is
    a three-page Webflow marketing site (/, /about, /news) with no developer, API, docs, app or status subdomain resolving
    in DNS and no product that could carry an API.
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  - url: https://www.agrospheres.com/developers
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  - url: https://www.agrospheres.com/api
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  - url: https://www.agrospheres.com/openapi.json
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  - url: https://www.agrospheres.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.agrospheres.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-06'