Carter's

Carter's, Inc. (NYSE: CRI) is the largest branded marketer of young children's apparel in the United States, selling the Carter's, OshKosh B'gosh, Skip Hop and Little Planet brands through its own stores, carters.com and wholesale partners. It is a physical-goods retailer, not a software company, and publishes no developer program: developer.carters.com has no DNS record, www.carters.com/developers is a 404, and api.carters.com — the storefront's backend host — hard-403s every request. Its only external programs are a CJ affiliate program and privately negotiated EDI trading-partner guidelines. No OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL, MCP server, A2A agent card, SDK or package exists, and none has been authored on its behalf; the placeholder "Carter's API" entry that once stood here has been removed. What it does publish is recorded: a privacy policy with a Global Privacy Control commitment and a OneTrust data-subject request portal, terms, customer service, and its IR newsroom.

Carter’s is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Retail, Children, Apparel, Fortune 1000, and E-Commerce.

Carter’s’ developer surface includes support and 12 more developer resources.

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11.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Retail Children Apparel Fortune 1000 E-Commerce No Developer Program

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 11.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.8 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · 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 7 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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.

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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
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 4.8 — up to +19.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Fashion & Apparel (apparel, footwear, textiles)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Carter's API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Carter Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Carter Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Carter Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Carter Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

GlobalPrivacyControl

GlobalPrivacyControl

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Newsroom

Newsroom

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Leadership

Leadership

DataSubjectRequest

DataSubjectRequest

RegulatoryPosture

RegulatoryPosture

Source (apis.yml)

aid: carter
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/carter/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Carter's
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - finops
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/carter.png
tags:
- Retail
- Children
- Apparel
- Fortune 1000
- E-Commerce
- No Developer Program
tags_raw:
- Retail
- Children
- Apparel
- Fortune 1000
- Ecommerce
- No Developer Program
description: 'Carter''s, Inc. (NYSE: CRI) is the largest branded marketer of young children''s apparel in the United States,
  selling the Carter''s, OshKosh B''gosh, Skip Hop and Little Planet brands through its own stores, carters.com and wholesale
  partners. It is a physical-goods retailer, not a software company, and publishes no developer program: developer.carters.com
  has no DNS record, www.carters.com/developers is a 404, and api.carters.com — the storefront''s backend host — hard-403s
  every request. Its only external programs are a CJ affiliate program and privately negotiated EDI trading-partner guidelines.
  No OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL, MCP server, A2A agent card, SDK or package exists, and none has been authored on its
  behalf; the placeholder "Carter''s API" entry that once stood here has been removed. What it does publish is recorded: a
  privacy policy with a Global Privacy Control commitment and a OneTrust data-subject request portal, terms, customer service,
  and its IR newsroom.'
created: '2026-04-19'
modified: '2026-09-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/carter-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/carter-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/carter-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.carters.com
  x-note: Cloudflare managed challenge (403, cf-mitigated=challenge) for anonymous crawlers; the storefront renders for a
    browser-class fetch (probed 2026-09-19).
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.carters.com/customerservice/privacy-policy
  x-note: Read via browser-class fetch 2026-09-19 (heading "Our Privacy Policy"); curl receives the Cloudflare challenge.
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.carters.com/customerservice/terms-and-conditions
  x-note: Read via browser-class fetch 2026-09-19 (heading "TERMS AND CONDITIONS"); no API, developer program or data feed
    is mentioned.
- type: Support
  url: https://www.carters.com/customerservice/contact-us
  x-note: Customer-service contact page linked from the storefront footer; product support only — there is no developer support
    channel.
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://ir.carters.com/news-releases
  x-note: Investor-relations press releases (Q4/gcs-web on Akamai). Answers 403 "Access Denied" to our crawler and times out
    a browser-class fetch, but is search-indexed with dated releases through Q2 fiscal 2026 — an edge policy, not a dead page.
- type: Leadership
  url: https://ir.carters.com/corporate-governance/leadership-team
  x-note: Same Akamai edge policy as the newsroom (403 to our crawler); page is search-indexed as "Leadership Team | Carter's,
    Inc. - Investor Relations".
- type: GlobalPrivacyControl
  name: Privacy policy states the Global Privacy Control signal is honored ("We will respond to this signal in a frictionless
    manner")
  url: https://www.carters.com/customerservice/privacy-policy
- type: DataSubjectRequest
  name: Carter's Privacy Portal (OneTrust web form) for privacy-rights requests
  url: https://privacyportal.onetrust.com/webform/c8e445f2-2518-4426-b49b-47c75e7fff21/94ab12c1-228a-478d-81a0-5fd4ee246d19
- type: RegulatoryPosture
  url: regulatory/carter-regulatory-posture.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/carter-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-19'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Carter's sells children's apparel; developer.carters.com has no DNS record, www.carters.com/developers is a genuine
    404 behind the Cloudflare challenge, api.carters.com hard-403s every request including a browser-class fetch, no GitHub
    org, SDK or registry package exists, and the only external programs are a CJ affiliate program and privately negotiated
    EDI trading-partner guidelines.
  evidence:
  - url: https://developer.carters.com
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.carters.com/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.carters.com/openapi.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/carters
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-19'

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