BotSociety

Botsociety is a tool to design, preview, and prototype conversational interfaces — chatbots and voice assistants — before they are built. Its API lets applications retrieve the content of a design (messages, intents, variables, and integration data) at runtime, so bot content can be updated in the design tool without redeploying bot code. The API exposes design retrieval plus a legacy apisociety 2.0 surface for managing conversations, messages, and variables, authenticated with a user id and a public API key sent as request headers. Botsociety, backed by 500 Global, is winding down ("working on a new direction") and its API host is presently unreachable; the artifacts in this repo are reconstructed from the official first-party npm client and public API documentation. Surfaced originally as a 500 Global portfolio company and enriched into the API Evangelist network.

BotSociety publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Conversations API, Designs API, Messages API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Chatbots, Conversational AI, Voice Assistant, and Bot Design.

The BotSociety catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

BotSociety’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, authentication, changelog, and 15 more developer resources.

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17.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 0/100 dormant library Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Company Chatbots Conversational AI Voice AssistantBot DesignPrototyping Developer Tools

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Software Product Engineering Management

BC-4200

Designs

GET /designs/{conversationId}/integrations

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 17.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.1 / 15

Access Clarity 0.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the AI & Biometrics 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.

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The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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)
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)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

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
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 33.9 — up to +13.2 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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

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

BotSociety Conversations API

Manage conversations (legacy apisociety 2.0 API)

BotSociety Designs API

Retrieve design/integration content (current API)

BotSociety Messages API

Manage messages within a conversation (legacy apisociety 2.0 API)

BotSociety Variables API

Manage variables within a conversation (legacy apisociety 2.0 API)

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Botsociety Conversations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Botsociety Conversations Designs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Botsociety Conversations Messages API

OPEN COLLECTION

Botsociety Conversations Variables API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

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

Manage a Botsociety conversation

AGENT SKILL

Retrieve Botsociety design content

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

BotSociety API Rules

64 rules · 62 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Botsociety Openapi Overlay

2 actions · update · botsociety-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Botsociety Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Botsociety Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: botsociety
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/botsociety.png
name: BotSociety
description: Botsociety is a tool to design, preview, and prototype conversational interfaces — chatbots and voice assistants
  — before they are built. Its API lets applications retrieve the content of a design (messages, intents, variables, and integration
  data) at runtime, so bot content can be updated in the design tool without redeploying bot code. The API exposes design
  retrieval plus a legacy apisociety 2.0 surface for managing conversations, messages, and variables, authenticated with a
  user id and a public API key sent as request headers. Botsociety, backed by 500 Global, is winding down ("working on a new
  direction") and its API host is presently unreachable; the artifacts in this repo are reconstructed from the official first-party
  npm client and public API documentation. Surfaced originally as a 500 Global portfolio company and enriched into the API
  Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/botsociety/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
x-docs-platform: apiary
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-20
tags:
- Company
- Chatbots
- Conversational AI
- Voice Assistant
- Bot Design
- Prototyping
- Developer Tools
tags_raw:
- Company
- Chatbots
- Conversational AI
- Voice Assistants
- Bot Design
- Prototyping
- Developer Tools
apis:
- aid: botsociety:botsociety-conversations-api
  name: BotSociety Conversations API
  description: Manage conversations (legacy apisociety 2.0 API)
  humanURL: https://botsociety.github.io
  baseURL: https://app.botsociety.io
  tags:
  - Conversations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/botsociety-conversations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://botsociety.github.io
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://botsociety.docs.apiary.io/
- aid: botsociety:botsociety-designs-api
  name: BotSociety Designs API
  description: Retrieve design/integration content (current API)
  humanURL: https://botsociety.github.io
  baseURL: https://app.botsociety.io
  tags:
  - Design
  tags_raw:
  - Designs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/botsociety-designs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://botsociety.github.io
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://botsociety.docs.apiary.io/
- aid: botsociety:botsociety-messages-api
  name: BotSociety Messages API
  description: Manage messages within a conversation (legacy apisociety 2.0 API)
  humanURL: https://botsociety.github.io
  baseURL: https://app.botsociety.io
  tags:
  - Message
  tags_raw:
  - Messages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/botsociety-messages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://botsociety.github.io
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://botsociety.docs.apiary.io/
- aid: botsociety:botsociety-variables-api
  name: BotSociety Variables API
  description: Manage variables within a conversation (legacy apisociety 2.0 API)
  humanURL: https://botsociety.github.io
  baseURL: https://app.botsociety.io
  tags:
  - Variables
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/botsociety-variables-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://botsociety.github.io
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://botsociety.docs.apiary.io/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/botsociety-capability-edges.yml
  name: BotSociety Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://botsociety.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://botsociety.github.io
- type: APIReference
  url: https://botsociety.docs.apiary.io/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/botsociety
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/botsociety-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/botsociety-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/botsociety-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/botsociety-packages.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/botsociety-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/botsociety-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/botsociety-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/botsociety-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/botsociety-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/botsociety-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/botsociety-changelog.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/botsociety-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/botsociety-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

BotSociety API — frequently asked questions

Does BotSociety have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from BotSociety, including BotSociety Conversations API, BotSociety Designs API and BotSociety Messages API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the BotSociety API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for BotSociety, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the BotSociety API?

BotSociety uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Botsociety Authentication.

Is the BotSociety API ready for AI agents?

BotSociety has a Kin Score of 17.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 18.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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