Catalog Guard API

name: Catalog Guard API
description: 'A bounded, fail-closed catalog preflight and validation service for Shopify-shaped supplier product CSVs. Exposes
  an unauthenticated JSON HTTP API that validates raw CSV text or normalized product rows and returns a deterministic result:
  safe rows, blockers and warnings, each finding carrying a row index, field, stable code and message. Ambiguous input is
  refused rather than guessed — unclosed quotes, malformed rows, duplicate headers, duplicate normalized SKUs and incomplete
  variant pairs all become blockers, and supplier categories are treated as audit-only rather than mapped to a Shopify taxonomy.
  The service does not accept file uploads, credentials, payment data or store connections, holds no storage, and never imports
  or modifies a catalog; every successful response repeats those disclosures inline as machine-readable fields. Access is
  controlled by input bounds and a best-effort rate limit rather than by identity. Commercially it is fronted by a free in-browser
  CSV preflight, a $149 bounded human CSV Diagnostic, and a separate free Shopify store-launch referral path.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/catalog-guard-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/og.png
created: '2026-07-31'
modified: '2026-08-09'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- E-Commerce
- catalog-validation
- Shopify
- Data Quality
- CSV validation
- product-data-qa
- data-preflight
- Data Validation
- Retail
tags_raw:
- ecommerce
- catalog-validation
- shopify
- data-quality
- csv-validation
- product-data-qa
- data-preflight
- data-validation
- retail
apis:
- aid: catalog-guard-api:catalog-guard-api-catalog-api
  name: Catalog Guard API Catalog API
  description: The Catalog API from Catalog Guard API — 2 operation(s) for catalog.
  humanURL: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/api/v1/catalog/docs
  baseURL: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/catalog-guard-api-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/api/v1/catalog/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/openapi.json
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/api/v1/catalog/docs
maintainers:
- FN: Catalog Guard
  url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/catalog-guard-api-capability-edges.yml
  name: Catalog Guard API Business Capability Map
- type: Documentation
  url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/api/v1/catalog/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/openapi.json
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/api/v1/catalog/docs
- type: Pricing
  url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/diagnostic
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/privacy
- type: APIsJson
  url: https://catalogguard.noahcortezj-c.workers.dev/apis.json
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/catalog-guard-api-catalog-check-openapi.json
- type: OpenAPIOverlay
  url: overlays/catalog-guard-api-catalog-check-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/catalog-guard-api-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/catalog-guard-api-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/catalog-guard-api-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/catalog-guard-api-lifecycle.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/catalog-guard-api-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/catalog-guard-api-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/catalog-guard-api-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/catalog-guard-api-examples.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/catalog-guard-api-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/catalog-guard-api-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/catalog-guard-api-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/catalog-guard-api-domain-security.yml
generated:
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  model: claude-opus-4-8
  confidence: 92
  at: '2026-07-31T04:49:23.782Z'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-09'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 19
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