# Backbone

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/backbone/  
**Website:** https://backbone.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Backbone is a mobile gaming company that makes the Backbone One controller — a snap-on gamepad for iPhone and Android — and the Backbone app, a mobile gaming platform that unifies a player's game library across cloud gaming, console Remote Play, and streaming services with game discovery, capture, and social features. The company sells hardware and accessories through a Shopify-hosted storefront (backbone.com) that exposes an agent-commerce surface via the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) MCP endpoint and Shopify Customer Account OIDC. Backbone is a portfolio company of Index Ventures. This profile was enriched from Backbone's public web surface; the company publishes no first-party developer API.

## Kin Score — 14.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 13.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 18.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | verified |
| 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).

## MCP servers (1)

- **Backbone MCP Server**

## Security (2)

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

## Tags

Company, Entertainment, Gaming, Mobile Gaming, Gaming Controller, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, E-Commerce

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