# CarServ

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/carserv/  
**Website:** https://carserv.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

CarServ was auto repair shop management software — marketed as "the operating system for auto repair" — used by single-site shops and multi-location repair groups to run repair orders, Digital Vehicle Inspections, technician and service advisor workflows, customer communication and payments. The company was backed by Techstars. It is no longer operating: carserv.com returned HTTP 410 Gone through late 2024 and now resolves to a registrar parking page delegated to Afternic name servers. CarServ shipped a read-only JSON:API v2 "Public API" covering repair orders, customers, vehicles, appointments, inspections, operations and their part, labor and sublet line items, authenticated by exchanging an API key and secret for a JWT bearer token. No OpenAPI definition, developer portal or documentation survives; this profile reconstructs the historical API contract from the company's own open-source Ruby client library, which remains public on GitHub.

## Kin Score — 11.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 15.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## Security (2)

- **Carserv Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Carserv Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Company, Automotive, Auto Repair, Shop Management, Vehicle Inspection, Field Service, Software-as-a-Service, JSON:API, Defunct

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