Althea

Althea (Althea Global, us.althea.kr) is a Seoul-founded K-beauty e-commerce company operating an online marketplace that curates and ships authentic Korean skincare, makeup, and hair and body-care products directly from Korea to more than 200 countries, with regional storefronts for the USA, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Founded in 2015 and backed by 500 Global, Tekton Ventures, FirstFloor Capital, InnoVen Capital, and Korea Development Bank, the platform runs on Shopify and exposes a native agent-commerce surface: a live Shopify Storefront MCP server, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile and MCP endpoint, Shopify Customer Account OpenID Connect, and published /llms.txt and /agents.md agent instructions for AI shopping assistants.

Althea is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, E-Commerce, Retail, Beauty, and Cosmetics.

Althea’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, documentation, authentication, and 11 more developer resources.

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23.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company E-Commerce Retail Beauty CosmeticsK-BeautySkincare Agentic Commerce Shopify

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 23.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.5 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 14/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 0 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 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.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
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)

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 26.2 — up to +14.8 composite points
Access Clarity scores 27.6 — up to +14.5 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 (platform)

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (shopify)

APIs 1

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

Althea Storefront Agent Commerce API

Agent-facing commerce surface for the Althea storefront on Shopify: a live Storefront MCP server (search_catalog, get_cart, update_cart, get_product_details, search_shop_policie...

MCP Servers 1

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

Althea MCP Server

Althea Global runs on Shopify and exposes native agent-commerce endpoints. Two MCP servers are live at the store domain: the Shopify Storefront MCP (/api/mcp) which returns a wo...

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Althea Authentication

openIdConnect/oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Althea Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Althea Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Conventions

Conventions

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

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)

aid: althea
name: Althea
description: 'Althea (Althea Global, us.althea.kr) is a Seoul-founded K-beauty e-commerce company operating an online marketplace
  that curates and ships authentic Korean skincare, makeup, and hair and body-care products directly from Korea to more than
  200 countries, with regional storefronts for the USA, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Founded in 2015 and
  backed by 500 Global, Tekton Ventures, FirstFloor Capital, InnoVen Capital, and Korea Development Bank, the platform runs
  on Shopify and exposes a native agent-commerce surface: a live Shopify Storefront MCP server, a Universal Commerce Protocol
  (UCP) merchant profile and MCP endpoint, Shopify Customer Account OpenID Connect, and published /llms.txt and /agents.md
  agent instructions for AI shopping assistants.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/althea/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
image: https://us.althea.kr/cdn/shop/files/althea-logo_a64c523b-c7ea-4aa5-ac1e-19107b425819_grande.png?v=1614805110
tags:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Beauty
- Cosmetics
- K-Beauty
- Skincare
- Agentic Commerce
- Shopify
tags_raw:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Beauty
- Cosmetics
- K-Beauty
- Skincare
- Agent Commerce
- Shopify
apis:
- name: Althea Storefront Agent Commerce API
  description: 'Agent-facing commerce surface for the Althea storefront on Shopify: a live Storefront MCP server (search_catalog,
    get_cart, update_cart, get_product_details, search_shop_policies_and_faqs), a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) shopping
    service, and public read-only product/collection JSON endpoints.'
  humanURL: https://us.althea.kr/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://us.althea.kr/api/mcp
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/althea-mcp.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://us.althea.kr/agents.md
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: storefront-mcp
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://us.althea.kr
- type: Blog
  url: https://us.althea.kr/blogs/beauty-feed
- type: Support
  url: https://support.althea.kr/hc/en-us
- type: Login
  url: https://us.althea.kr/account
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://us.althea.kr/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://us.althea.kr/policies/privacy-policy
- type: Documentation
  url: https://us.althea.kr/agents.md
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/althea-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/althea-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/althea-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/althea-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/althea-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/althea-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/althea-conventions.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/althea-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Althea API — frequently asked questions

Does Althea have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Althea, including Althea Storefront Agent Commerce API.

How do I authenticate with the Althea API?

Althea documents its authentication (openIdConnect/oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Althea Authentication.

Does Althea have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Althea: Althea Global runs on Shopify and exposes native agent-commerce endpoints. Two MCP servers are live at the store domain: the Shopify Storefront MCP (/api/mcp) which returns a working tools/list, and t

Is the Althea API ready for AI agents?

Althea has a Kin Score of 23.3 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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