# Antheia

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/antheia/  
**Website:** https://antheia.bio/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Antheia, Inc. is a Menlo Park, California synthetic-biology company that manufactures biosynthetic key starting materials (KSMs) and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for essential medicines. Founded on Christina Smolke's Stanford research, Antheia engineers yeast strains that reconstruct long, complex plant biosynthetic pathways and ferment sugar into molecules previously obtainable only through agricultural cultivation, compressing production timelines from years to weeks. Commercial products include fermentation-derived thebaine, oripavine and scopolamine, with a development pipeline of 70+ KSMs and APIs spanning neurology, gastrointestinal and oncology programs. NOTE FOR THE CATALOG: Antheia's "APIs" are Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, not web APIs — the company publishes no developer API, SDK, or machine-readable interface contract.

## Kin Score — 10.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (-0.7 from 11.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 17.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Security (1)

- **Antheia Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Fermentation, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, Drug Shortages

---

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