Brooklinen

Brooklinen is a direct-to-consumer home essentials brand founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2014 by Rich and Vicki Fulop, selling sheets, duvet covers, comforters, pillows, towels, robes and loungewear direct from the mill to the customer. Brooklinen publishes no traditional developer API program, but its storefront runs on Shopify and exposes a substantial machine-readable agent surface: an agent instruction document at /agents.md (mirrored at /llms.txt), a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp declaring protocol versions 2026-04-08 and 2026-01-23, a live UCP/MCP JSON-RPC endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp for agent-driven catalog search, cart, checkout and order operations, OAuth 2.0 / OIDC customer-account authorization metadata at /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server and /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource, and the read-only Shopify storefront JSON endpoints for products, collections, search suggestions and cart. Checkout explicitly requires contemporaneous human buyer approval.

Brooklinen is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include E-Commerce, Retail, Direct to Consumer, Home Goods, and Bedding.

Brooklinen’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, and 27 more developer resources.

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31.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

E-Commerce Retail Direct to Consumer Home Goods Bedding Shopify Agentic Commerce Universal Commerce Protocol MCP Agent-Native Catalog Checkout

What this lets a business do 1

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

Product Information Management

BC-2370

Products

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 31.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.3 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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 Ask about this →
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Standards implemented 4

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 (platform)

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (shopify)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 1

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

Brooklinen UCP / MCP Agentic Commerce API

Live Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) endpoint exposed over MCP JSON-RPC at https://www.brooklinen.com/api/ucp/mcp, advertised by the store's own /agents.md, /robots.txt and /....

MCP Servers 1

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

Brooklinen MCP Server

Remote MCP server at www.brooklinen.com over HTTP; 13 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

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

Buy from Brooklinen over UCP/MCP

AGENT SKILL

Browse the Brooklinen catalog

AGENT SKILL

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Brooklinen

9 quoted statements, read from Brooklinen's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Brooklinen

16 quoted statements, read from Brooklinen's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Brooklinen

4 quoted statements, read from Brooklinen's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Brooklinen

1 quoted statement, read from Brooklinen's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Brooklinen

2 quoted statements, read from Brooklinen's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

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.

Brooklinen Storefront Overlay

8 actions · update · brooklinen-storefront-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Brooklinen Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect/none · 4 schemes

SECURITY

Brooklinen Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Brooklinen Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

Lifecycle

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

SecondaryMarketListing

SecondaryMarketListing

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: brooklinen
name: Brooklinen
description: 'Brooklinen is a direct-to-consumer home essentials brand founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2014 by Rich and Vicki
  Fulop, selling sheets, duvet covers, comforters, pillows, towels, robes and loungewear direct from the mill to the customer.
  Brooklinen publishes no traditional developer API program, but its storefront runs on Shopify and exposes a substantial
  machine-readable agent surface: an agent instruction document at /agents.md (mirrored at /llms.txt), a Universal Commerce
  Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp declaring protocol versions 2026-04-08 and 2026-01-23, a live UCP/MCP
  JSON-RPC endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp for agent-driven catalog search, cart, checkout and order operations, OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
  customer-account authorization metadata at /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server and /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource,
  and the read-only Shopify storefront JSON endpoints for products, collections, search suggestions and cart. Checkout explicitly
  requires contemporaneous human buyer approval.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brooklinen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0951/7126/files/0126_Shopify_Social_Image.jpg?v=1765839763
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Direct to Consumer
- Home Goods
- Bedding
- Shopify
- Agentic Commerce
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- MCP
- Agent-Native
- Catalog
- Checkout
tags_raw:
- ecommerce
- retail
- direct-to-consumer
- home-goods
- bedding
- shopify
- agentic-commerce
- universal-commerce-protocol
- mcp
- agent-native
- catalog
- checkout
apis:
- name: Brooklinen UCP / MCP Agentic Commerce API
  description: Live Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) endpoint exposed over MCP JSON-RPC at https://www.brooklinen.com/api/ucp/mcp,
    advertised by the store's own /agents.md, /robots.txt and /.well-known/ucp discovery profile. Provides agent-driven catalog
    search and lookup, cart management, checkout creation/update/completion and order retrieval against the Brooklinen storefront.
    Requires a resolvable UCP agent profile (meta.ucp-agent.profile / UCP-Agent header) — anonymous tools/list returns JSON-RPC
    error -32001 invalid_profile_url. Payment completion requires explicit human buyer approval.
  humanURL: https://www.brooklinen.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://www.brooklinen.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - MCP
  - Agent-Native
  - Checkout
  - Catalog
  tags_raw:
  - agentic-commerce
  - universal-commerce-protocol
  - mcp
  - agent-native
  - checkout
  - catalog
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/brooklinen-mcp.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: https://www.brooklinen.com/api/ucp/mcp
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/brooklinen-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brooklinen.com/agents.md
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/brooklinen-ucp.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/brooklinen-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/brooklinen-scopes.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/brooklinen-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/brooklinen-problem-types.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/brooklinen-capability-edges.yml
  name: Brooklinen Business Capability Map
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brooklinen-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/agents.md
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/agents.md
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/agents.md
- type: Support
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/pages/contact
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/pages/faq
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/blogs/brookliving
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Brooklinen
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/pages/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/account/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.brooklinen.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/brooklinen-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/brooklinen-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/brooklinen-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/brooklinen-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/brooklinen-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/brooklinen-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/brooklinen-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/brooklinen-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/brooklinen-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/brooklinen-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/brooklinen-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/brooklinen-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/brooklinen-storefront-overlay.yaml
- type: SecondaryMarketListing
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/brooklinen_stock/
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/brooklinen-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/brooklinen-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/brooklinen-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/brooklinen-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/brooklinen-data-license.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
  pass: local-v1

Brooklinen API — frequently asked questions

Does Brooklinen have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Brooklinen, including Brooklinen UCP / MCP Agentic Commerce API.

How do I authenticate with the Brooklinen API?

Brooklinen documents its authentication (oauth2/openIdConnect/none · 4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Brooklinen Authentication.

Does Brooklinen have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Brooklinen: Remote MCP server at www.brooklinen.com over HTTP; 13 tools listed.

Is the Brooklinen API ready for AI agents?

Brooklinen has a Kin Score of 31.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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