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 publishes 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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23.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyE-CommerceRetailBeautyCosmeticsK-BeautySkincareAgent CommerceShopify

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 23.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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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.yml

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
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)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
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
- 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
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