CRU Kafe

CRU Kafe is a London-founded organic coffee brand selling Fairtrade, ethically sourced coffee - including award-winning Nespresso-compatible pods from 33p per pod, plus ground coffee and beans - direct to consumers through its Shopify storefront at crukafe.com. Backed by Seedcamp, the company was added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio lead. CRU Kafe publishes no first-party developer API; its machine-readable surface is the Shopify / Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) agent-commerce layer served on its own domain: a hosted UCP MCP endpoint for agent-driven catalog search and buyer-approved checkout, an llms.txt / agents.md for AI shopping assistants, and Shopify Customer Account OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect identity.

CRU Kafe is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Coffee, E-Commerce, Retail, and Consumer Goods.

CRU Kafe’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 7 more developer resources.

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19.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 38/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company Coffee E-Commerce Retail Consumer Goods Food and Beverage Shopify Agentic Commerce Universal Commerce Protocol

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 19.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 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.

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):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

9 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 14.3 — up to +17.1 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

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.

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (shopify)

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 1

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

CRU Kafe Agent Commerce (UCP)

Shopify-native Universal Commerce Protocol surface served on crukafe.com: a hosted MCP endpoint for agent-driven catalog search, cart, and buyer-approved checkout, backed by Sho...

MCP Servers 1

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

CRU Kafe Shopping (UCP)

Hosted agent-commerce MCP server exposed natively by CRU Kafe's Shopify storefront via the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Lets agents search the catalog, build a cart, and d...

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Cru Kafe Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Cru Kafe Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Cru Kafe Scopes

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cru-kafe
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: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cru-kafe.png
name: CRU Kafe
description: 'CRU Kafe is a London-founded organic coffee brand selling Fairtrade, ethically sourced coffee - including award-winning
  Nespresso-compatible pods from 33p per pod, plus ground coffee and beans - direct to consumers through its Shopify storefront
  at crukafe.com. Backed by Seedcamp, the company was added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio lead. CRU Kafe publishes
  no first-party developer API; its machine-readable surface is the Shopify / Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) agent-commerce
  layer served on its own domain: a hosted UCP MCP endpoint for agent-driven catalog search and buyer-approved checkout, an
  llms.txt / agents.md for AI shopping assistants, and Shopify Customer Account OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect identity.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cru-kafe/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- seedcamp
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Coffee
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Consumer Goods
- Food and Beverage
- Shopify
- Agentic Commerce
- Universal Commerce Protocol
tags_raw:
- Company
- Coffee
- Ecommerce
- Retail
- Consumer Goods
- Food and Beverage
- Shopify
- Agent Commerce
- UCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: CRU Kafe Agent Commerce (UCP)
  description: 'Shopify-native Universal Commerce Protocol surface served on crukafe.com: a hosted MCP endpoint for agent-driven
    catalog search, cart, and buyer-approved checkout, backed by Shopify Customer Account OAuth/OIDC. Platform-provided, not
    a bespoke CRU Kafe build.'
  humanURL: https://www.crukafe.com
  baseURL: https://www.crukafe.com/api/ucp/mcp
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/cru-kafe-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cru-kafe-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/cru-kafe-scopes.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cru-kafe-conformance.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
common:
- url: https://www.crukafe.com/blogs/news
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.crukafe.com/blogs/news.atom
  type: BlogRSS
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cru-kafe-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: http://crukafe.com
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cru-kafe-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cru-kafe-well-known.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.crukafe.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.crukafe.com/policies/terms-of-service
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

CRU Kafe API — frequently asked questions

Does CRU Kafe have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from CRU Kafe, including CRU Kafe Agent Commerce (UCP).

How do I authenticate with the CRU Kafe API?

CRU Kafe documents its authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cru Kafe Authentication.

Does CRU Kafe have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for CRU Kafe: Hosted agent-commerce MCP server exposed natively by CRU Kafe's Shopify storefront via the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Lets agents search the catalog, build a cart, and drive a buyer-approved c

Is the CRU Kafe API ready for AI agents?

CRU Kafe has a Kin Score of 19.3 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 15.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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