Canary

Canary is an AI QA engineer that reads your source code to understand developer intent. Push a pull request and Canary reads the diff, understands the intent, and runs feature and regression tests against your preview app across real browsers, catching broken auth flows, slow page loads, and failing checkouts before they reach production. Built by ex-Google, Windsurf, and Cognition engineers, Canary is a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company positioned as the validation layer for AI-generated code.

Canary is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Quality Assurance, Testing, Developer Tools, and Artificial Intelligence.

Canary’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 2 more developer resources.

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7.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Quality Assurance Testing Developer Tools Artificial Intelligence Regression Testing DevOps

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Composite quality — 7.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 20

Access Clarity 1.3 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: canary
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/canary.png
name: Canary
description: Canary is an AI QA engineer that reads your source code to understand developer intent. Push a pull request and
  Canary reads the diff, understands the intent, and runs feature and regression tests against your preview app across real
  browsers, catching broken auth flows, slow page loads, and failing checkouts before they reach production. Built by ex-Google,
  Windsurf, and Cognition engineers, Canary is a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company positioned as the validation layer for AI-generated
  code.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/canary/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-enrichment:
  last_run: '2026-07-18'
  status: minimal
  note: No public API, OpenAPI, SDK, developer docs, or /.well-known surface exists (all 404 on www.runcanary.ai as of 2026-07-18).
    Early-stage 2-person YC W26 product with a marketing site only; no artifacts could be produced without fabrication. Only
    the identity/link-property pass was applied.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Quality Assurance
- Testing
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- Regression Testing
- DevOps
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.runcanary.ai
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.runcanary.ai/blog
- type: Login
  url: https://www.runcanary.ai/login
- type: Support
  url: https://www.runcanary.ai/contact
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io

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