# CRU Kafe

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cru-kafe/  
**Website:** http://crukafe.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 13.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 12.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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)

- **cru-kafe-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Cru Kafe Authentication** — 1 scheme
- **Cru Kafe Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Coffee, Ecommerce, Retail, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Shopify, Agent Commerce, UCP

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