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 publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Coffee, Ecommerce, Retail, and Consumer Goods.

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13.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyCoffeeEcommerceRetailConsumer GoodsFood and BeverageShopifyAgent CommerceUCP

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 13.5/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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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.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Cru Kafe Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 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 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cru-kafe
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- 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
common:
- 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