# Cove.Tool

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cove.tool/  
**Website:** https://cove.inc/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

cove.tool (rebranded to "cove" in 2025) is an Atlanta, Georgia building-performance analysis platform for architects, engineers and contractors, founded in 2017 by Sandeep Ahuja, Patrick Chopson and Daniel Chopson. Its analysis.tool engine runs energy, daylight, glare, embodied carbon, water, radiation, shadow and cost-versus-performance optimization on early-stage building designs. The company publishes a public REST API — marketed as api.tool — that lets software vendors and design firms create projects, upload building geometry, select an energy code, kick off daylight and energy simulation, poll job status and retrieve EUI, sDA and ASE results without using the web application. Two OpenAPI 3.0 definitions are served from the developer portal: a three-operation v1 and a thirteen-operation v2.

## Kin Score — 37.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 48.6 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 56.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 28.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 39.6 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (2)

- **cove.tool REST API v2** — The current cove.tool REST API. Thirteen operations across six tags — User, Profiles, Energy Codes, Projects, Project Geometry and Daylight Analysis — covering account creation,...
- **cove.tool API v1** — The original cove.tool API, still served from the developer portal alongside v2. Three operations: obtain an API token, list projects and their associated information, and updat...

## Security (2)

- **Cove.Tool Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Cove.Tool Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cove.Tool Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Building Performance, Energy Modeling, Daylight Analysis, Sustainability, Architecture, AEC, Simulation, Embodied Carbon, Building Design

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