# Althea

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/althea/  
**Website:** https://us.althea.kr  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 22.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 12.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 34.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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)

- **althea-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Althea Authentication** — openIdConnect/oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Althea Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Tags

Company, E-Commerce, Retail, Beauty, Cosmetics, K-Beauty, Skincare, Agent Commerce, Shopify

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