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CarMD

CarMD specializes in automotive diagnostics and insights, selling the CarMD Connect vehicle-health device and publishing the CarMD Vehicle Health Index. Its developer story has two very different halves today. The historic CarMD Vehicle API (CarScan) — code definitions, vehicle images, repair and upcoming-issue prediction — is documented at api.carmd.com and still linked from the carmd.com footer, but that host refused TCP connections on ports 80 and 443 when probed on 2026-08-27, and the old carmd.com/api pricing page now returns 404. Meanwhile the rebuilt carmd.com storefront serves a live, anonymous agent surface: an llms.txt, a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile, a working MCP endpoint with thirteen commerce tools, and an anonymously introspectable Storefront GraphQL API.

CarMD is listed with 3 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Vehicle API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Automobiles, Cars, Vehicles, Automotive, and OBD-II.

CarMD’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, authentication, and 17 more developer resources.

26.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent ready Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessPaidOpen
3 APIs 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills
AutomobilesCarsVehiclesAutomotiveOBD-IIAgentic CommerceMCPE-CommerceVehicle Diagnostics

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
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):
  • 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
  • Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
  • Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
  • Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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Standards implemented 3

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.

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measured — observed by APIs.io (published)
measured — observed by APIs.io (shopify)

APIs 3

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

CarMD Vehicle API

CarMD's vehicle API (marketed as CarScan) provides access to OBD-II code definitions, vehicle images, repair information and predicted upcoming issues. Registration issues crede...

CarMD Agentic Commerce API (UCP MCP)

Live Model Context Protocol endpoint on CarMD's own domain, implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol (version 2026-04-08, with 2026-01-23 still served). Probed anonymously o...

CarMD Storefront GraphQL API

The Shopify-provided Storefront GraphQL API served on carmd.com, version 2026-04. Anonymous introspection on 2026-08-27 returned a 424-type schema (262 objects, 34 query fields,...

Open Collections 1

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

CarMD Universal Commerce (UCP) MCP Server

CarMD serves a live, anonymous Model Context Protocol endpoint on its own domain at https://carmd.com/api/ucp/mcp. It is the Shopify-provided Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) c...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

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

CarMD API pricing

Rate limits

Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Carmd Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Carmd Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Carmd Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Carmd Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Carmd Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Carmd Scopes

4 scopes

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: carmd
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/carmd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: CarMD
tags:
- Automobiles
- Cars
- Vehicles
- Automotive
- OBD-II
- Agentic Commerce
- MCP
- E-Commerce
- Vehicle Diagnostics
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Paid · Open access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - finops
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/carmd.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-03-30'
modified: '2026-08-27'
position: Consuming
description: 'CarMD specializes in automotive diagnostics and insights, selling the CarMD Connect vehicle-health device and
  publishing the CarMD Vehicle Health Index. Its developer story has two very different halves today. The historic CarMD Vehicle
  API (CarScan) — code definitions, vehicle images, repair and upcoming-issue prediction — is documented at api.carmd.com
  and still linked from the carmd.com footer, but that host refused TCP connections on ports 80 and 443 when probed on 2026-08-27,
  and the old carmd.com/api pricing page now returns 404. Meanwhile the rebuilt carmd.com storefront serves a live, anonymous
  agent surface: an llms.txt, a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile, a working MCP endpoint with thirteen commerce
  tools, and an anonymously introspectable Storefront GraphQL API.'
apis:
- aid: carmd:carmd
  name: CarMD Vehicle API
  tags:
  - Automobiles
  - Diagnostics
  - OBD-II
  humanURL: https://carmd.com/
  baseURL: https://api.carmd.com/
  properties: []
  description: 'CarMD''s vehicle API (marketed as CarScan) provides access to OBD-II code definitions, vehicle images, repair
    information and predicted upcoming issues. Registration issues credentials that are sent on every request. STATUS 2026-08-27:
    unreachable. api.carmd.com DNS-resolves to 54.86.119.234 but TCP 80 and 443 are both closed, so neither the documentation
    at api.carmd.com/member/docs nor the API itself could be reached from two independent networks. No machine-readable contract
    for this API is published anywhere this run could find.'
- aid: carmd:carmd-agentic-commerce
  name: CarMD Agentic Commerce API (UCP MCP)
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - E-Commerce
  humanURL: https://carmd.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://carmd.com/api/ucp/mcp
  properties:
  - url: https://carmd.com/agents.md
    type: Documentation
  - url: mcp/carmd-mcp.yml
    type: MCPServer
  - url: mcp/carmd-tool-crosswalk.yml
    type: ToolCrosswalk
  - url: skills/carmd-agentic-purchase.md
    type: AgentSkill
  description: 'Live Model Context Protocol endpoint on CarMD''s own domain, implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol
    (version 2026-04-08, with 2026-01-23 still served). Probed anonymously on 2026-08-27: initialize returned serverInfo universal-commerce
    0.1.0 at MCP protocolVersion 2024-11-05, and tools/list returned 13 tools — catalog search and lookup, cart create/update/cancel,
    checkout create/update/complete/cancel, and order read — each with a JSON Schema 2020-12 inputSchema. Checkout completion
    requires contemporaneous human buyer approval. The server software is the Shopify platform UCP implementation; the endpoint,
    merchant identity and catalog are CarMD''s.'
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
- aid: carmd:carmd-storefront-graphql
  name: CarMD Storefront GraphQL API
  tags:
  - E-Commerce
  - GraphQL
  humanURL: https://carmd.com/
  baseURL: https://carmd.com/api/2026-04/graphql.json
  properties:
  - url: graphql/carmd-storefront.graphql
    type: GraphQL
  - url: data-model/carmd-data-model.yml
    type: DataModel
  description: The Shopify-provided Storefront GraphQL API served on carmd.com, version 2026-04. Anonymous introspection on
    2026-08-27 returned a 424-type schema (262 objects, 34 query fields, 41 mutations), and an anonymous data query returned
    shop.name "CarMD" with primaryDomain https://carmd.com — confirming the endpoint belongs to this company. Catalog and
    content reads are open; customer-scoped fields require a customer access token or the OIDC flow at carmd.com/.well-known/openid-configuration.
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: storefront-graphql
common:
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/carmd-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://carmd.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://carmd.com/pages/blog-homepage
- type: Support
  url: https://carmd.com/pages/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://carmd.com/pages/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://carmd.com/pages/terms-of-service
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/carmd-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/carmd-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/carmd-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/carmd-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/carmd-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/carmd-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/carmd-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/carmd-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/carmd-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/carmd-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/carmd-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/carmd-rate-limits.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/carmd-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 19
  pass: local-v1

CarMD API — frequently asked questions

Does CarMD have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from CarMD, including CarMD Vehicle API, CarMD Agentic Commerce API (UCP MCP) and CarMD Storefront GraphQL API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the CarMD API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for CarMD, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the CarMD API?

CarMD documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Carmd Authentication.

Does CarMD have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for CarMD: CarMD serves a live, anonymous Model Context Protocol endpoint on its own domain at https://carmd.com/api/ucp/mcp. It is the Shopify-provided Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) commerce server for the

Is the CarMD API ready for AI agents?

CarMD has a Kin Score of 26.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 33.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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