# API Evangelist

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/api-evangelist/  
**Website:** https://developer.apievangelist.com  
**APIs profiled:** 20

The index of everything available via the API Evangelist developer portal at developer.apievangelist.com — sixteen years of API research served as one REST API, an MCP server for agents, and the static JSON feeds behind each network collection.

## Kin Score — 64.1 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 64.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 58.0 |
| Governance | 72.9 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 62.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 76.3 |

## Agent readiness — 52.9 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (20)

- **API Evangelist Network API** — The whole network behind one REST API — unified search, 5,100+ posts, 77 topic areas, 2,400+ governance building blocks, conversations, papers, services, vocabulary, and newslet...
- **API Evangelist Governance & Discovery API** — Governance and discovery compute over the API Evangelist rule catalog — lint an OpenAPI against 461 curated rules or your own ruleset, score it, measure rule coverage, classify ...
- **API Evangelist MCP Server** — Model Context Protocol server over the same network — concierge tools (get_overview, guide_topic) plus find/get tools for every resource type, served over Streamable HTTP for AI...
- **API Evangelist APIs** — Individual API resources tracked across the API Evangelist network, drawn from many providers and business sectors and accompanied by OpenAPI reviews.
- **API Evangelist Posts** — Over 4,000 stories on the API Evangelist blog since 2010 — the technology, business, and politics of how APIs are changing the way we live and work.
- **API Evangelist Conversations** — Regular conversations with API producers, consumers, and service providers about how they see APIs and what their biggest challenges are.
- **API Evangelist Companies** — An alphabetical listing of every company tracked across the API Evangelist network, operating in almost every business sector.
- **API Evangelist Experiences** — The real-world human experience across teams producing APIs and the consumers who are applying and integrating them as part of business.
- **API Evangelist Guidance** — Modular guidance for teams producing and consuming APIs — snackable real-time guidance for keeping API operations moving forward.
- **API Evangelist Partners** — Information about API Evangelist partners and collaboration opportunities supporting API operations.
- **API Evangelist Policies** — The business reasons behind why we govern API operations — aligning the engineering side of operations with the business side of things.
- **API Evangelist Properties** — Individual properties of API operations that can be linked to strategy, experience, and policies — and then governed to standardize how things work.
- **API Evangelist Rules** — Technical details of API operations that can be automated and enforced, used to align policies with strategy to deliver the desired experience.
- **API Evangelist Schema** — The naming and structure of the digital objects we pass back and forth via APIs within the business and personal applications we use.
- **API Evangelist Standards** — Common Internet or industry standards used to consistently define API operations and keep the API factory floor well-defined and interoperable.
- **API Evangelist Strategies** — High-level approaches to shifting the direction of API operations — aligning policies and experiences across the platform.
- **API Evangelist Utilities** — Utility APIs for managing API Evangelist operations — a catch-all collection of internal tools used to manage the platform.
- **API Evangelist Videos** — Video content covering API topics, interviews, and walkthroughs of API concepts and technologies.
- **API Evangelist Vocabularies** — Organizing the words we use to describe API resources and capabilities — controlled vocabularies that help us get on the same page.
- **Spotlight Rules** — Standalone spotlight on API governance rules — guardrails for API operations delivered as a curated ruleset alongside the rules collection.

## MCP servers (2)

- **api-evangelist-mcp.yml**
- **mcp**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Api Evangelist Agentic Access** — 92 operations · 22 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Api Evangelist Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Api Evangelist Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Api Evangelist Plans Pricing**

## Tags

APIs, API Evangelist, Developer Portal, API Research, API Governance, API Discovery, MCP, Agents, API Standards, API Vocabulary

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