# Car Handshake

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/carhandshake-com/  
**Website:** https://carhandshake.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Car Handshake is a consumer-facing platform that aggregates new and used car listings from participating dealerships across the United States and Canada. It allows shoppers to compare vehicles, filter by price, make, model, and location, and directly contact dealers. The service also offers a public API (https://api.carhandshake.com/v1) providing vehicle inventory data for developers. Operated by Dealer Handshake Inc., Car Handshake emphasizes transparent pricing and a no‑login shopping experience.

## Kin Score — 18.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 48.3 |
| Contract Quality | 19.0 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 10.7 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 20.6 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | conformant |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **Car Handshake API** — Car Handshake API as documented publicly: 4 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-11-03); not the provider's own document.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Car Handshake MCP Server** — Remote MCP server at mcp.carhandshake.com.

## Security (2)

- **Carhandshake Com Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS
- **Carhandshake Com Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Car, Marketplace, Automotive

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