Basis Desk

Basis Desk is an AI‑native crypto newsroom that delivers source‑verified news, live market data, and daily briefs without hype. It aggregates information from regulators, protocol teams, exchanges, and client releases, offering readers quick, sober insights into the cryptocurrency market.

Basis Desk is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Cryptocurrency, News, Artificial Intelligence, Media, and Data.

The Basis Desk catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Basis Desk’s developer surface includes API reference and 14 more developer resources.

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12.4/100 emerging Agent 6/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

Cryptocurrency News Artificial Intelligence Media Data Finance

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 12.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 5.4 — up to +18.9 composite points
Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Basis Desk API

Read‑only crypto market data and MCP server for news search. Provides ticker, snapshot, movers, sparklines, whale transfers and research datasets.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Basis Desk MCP Server

Remote MCP server at basisdesk.news.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

get-market-snapshot

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Basis Desk API Rules

36 rules · 34 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Basisdesk News Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Basisdesk News Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Spectral

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: basisdesk-news
name: Basis Desk
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://basisdesk.news/og-default.png
description: Basis Desk is an AI‑native crypto newsroom that delivers source‑verified news, live market data, and daily briefs
  without hype. It aggregates information from regulators, protocol teams, exchanges, and client releases, offering readers
  quick, sober insights into the cryptocurrency market.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/basisdesk-news/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-02 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-02'
modified: '2026-11-02'
tags:
- Cryptocurrency
- News
- Artificial Intelligence
- Media
- Data
- Finance
tags_raw:
- Crypto
- News
- AI
- Media
- Data
- Finance
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/basisdesk-news-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/basisdesk-news-rules.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/basisdesk-news-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/basisdesk-news-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/basisdesk-news-mcp.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/basisdesk-news-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/basisdesk-news-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://basisdesk.news/legal/terms
- type: Security
  url: https://basisdesk.news/security/today
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://basisdesk.news/legal/privacy
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://basisdesk.news/news
- type: APIReference
  url: https://basisdesk.news/developers
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/basisdesk-news-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://basisdesk.news/
apis:
- name: Basis Desk API
  description: Read‑only crypto market data and MCP server for news search. Provides ticker, snapshot, movers, sparklines,
    whale transfers and research datasets.
  humanURL: https://basisdesk.news/developers
  baseURL: https://basisdesk.news
  aid: basisdesk-news:basis-desk-api
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Basis Desk API — frequently asked questions

Does Basis Desk have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Basis Desk, including Basis Desk API.

Does Basis Desk have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Basis Desk: Remote MCP server at basisdesk.news.

Is the Basis Desk API ready for AI agents?

Basis Desk has a Kin Score of 12.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 6.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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