CSC Generation

CSC Generation is an AI-native retail holding company that acquires overlooked store- and catalogue-based retailers and rebuilds them on Genesis, its agent-orchestrated operating platform. Genesis combines a Data Fabric — a Data Management Platform that ingests and normalizes data across every brand without replatforming, and a Data Intelligence Platform that turns it into decision-ready signals for operators and AI agents — with an automation engine, proprietary retail AI tools, and centralized shared services covering customer experience, supply chain, technology and compliance. The company powers 13 brands and more than $1B in revenue, including Backcountry, Competitive Cyclist, Steep & Cheap, MotoSport, BikeTiresDirect, Level Nine Sports, Sur La Table, One Kings Lane, Seattle Coffee Gear and Home Consignment Center, and operates from Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Toronto, Seattle and Salt Lake City. CSC Generation publishes no corporate developer API; its machine-readable surface is per-brand — portfolio storefronts advertise Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profiles at /.well-known/ucp that point agents at MCP endpoints for catalog search, cart and checkout.

CSC Generation publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Agent Commerce, and Artificial Intelligence.

CSC Generation’s developer surface includes authentication and 15 more developer resources.

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12.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Retail E-Commerce Agent Commerce Artificial Intelligence Universal Commerce Protocol MCP Holding Company Shopping

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 12.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.7 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · 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 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 5 / 5

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APIs 2

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

Backcountry Agent Commerce (UCP)

Backcountry, a CSC Generation brand, publishes a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at its own /.well-known/ucp declaring UCP 2026-01-23 with both REST and MCP transpo...

Seattle Coffee Gear Agent Commerce (UCP)

Seattle Coffee Gear, a CSC Generation brand, publishes a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp declaring UCP 2026-04-08 (Shopify-native) with MCP and ...

MCP Servers 1

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

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Careers

Careers

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SecondaryMarket

SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

aid: csc-generation
name: CSC Generation
description: CSC Generation is an AI-native retail holding company that acquires overlooked store- and catalogue-based retailers
  and rebuilds them on Genesis, its agent-orchestrated operating platform. Genesis combines a Data Fabric — a Data Management
  Platform that ingests and normalizes data across every brand without replatforming, and a Data Intelligence Platform that
  turns it into decision-ready signals for operators and AI agents — with an automation engine, proprietary retail AI tools,
  and centralized shared services covering customer experience, supply chain, technology and compliance. The company powers
  13 brands and more than $1B in revenue, including Backcountry, Competitive Cyclist, Steep & Cheap, MotoSport, BikeTiresDirect,
  Level Nine Sports, Sur La Table, One Kings Lane, Seattle Coffee Gear and Home Consignment Center, and operates from Chicago,
  Austin, Los Angeles, Toronto, Seattle and Salt Lake City. CSC Generation publishes no corporate developer API; its machine-readable
  surface is per-brand — portfolio storefronts advertise Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profiles at /.well-known/ucp
  that point agents at MCP endpoints for catalog search, cart and checkout.
image: https://www.cscgeneration.com/lovable-uploads/eccc3cb7-1376-4c88-a582-2a4ca479b43e.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/csc-generation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-01'
modified: '2026-08-01'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Agent Commerce
- Artificial Intelligence
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- MCP
- Holding Company
- Shopping
tags_raw:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Agent Commerce
- Artificial Intelligence
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- Model Context Protocol
- Holding Company
- Shopping
apis:
- name: Backcountry Agent Commerce (UCP)
  description: Backcountry, a CSC Generation brand, publishes a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at its own /.well-known/ucp
    declaring UCP 2026-01-23 with both REST and MCP transports for the shopping service — catalog search and lookup, cart,
    checkout, fulfillment, discount and order — hosted by Firmly on the merchant's behalf. Anonymous tools/list returns 401
    api_key_required, so the surface is credential-gated.
  humanURL: https://www.backcountry.com/
  baseURL: https://api.firmly.online/api/2026-01-23/ucp/rest/domain/backcountry.com
  tags:
  - Agent Commerce
  - E-Commerce
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - MCP
  tags_raw:
  - Agent Commerce
  - E-Commerce
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - Model Context Protocol
  properties:
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/csc-generation-backcountry-ucp.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/csc-generation-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/csc-generation-tool-crosswalk.yml
- name: Seattle Coffee Gear Agent Commerce (UCP)
  description: Seattle Coffee Gear, a CSC Generation brand, publishes a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp
    declaring UCP 2026-04-08 (Shopify-native) with MCP and embedded transports, plus its own agent instructions at /llms.txt
    and /agents.md covering the six-step search-to-checkout flow, the buyer-approval rule, rate limits and an unauthenticated
    read-only storefront JSON surface. Anonymous tools/list returns 422 invalid_profile_url — the store requires the calling
    agent to present its own UCP profile URI.
  humanURL: https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/
  baseURL: https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agent Commerce
  - E-Commerce
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - MCP
  tags_raw:
  - Agent Commerce
  - E-Commerce
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - Model Context Protocol
  properties:
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/csc-generation-seattle-coffee-gear-ucp.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/csc-generation-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/csc-generation-seattle-coffee-gear-llms.txt
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/agents.md
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/policies/terms-of-service
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/policies/privacy-policy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/csc-generation-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cscgeneration.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/csc-generation/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.cscgeneration.com/careers
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/csc-generation_stock/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/csc-generation-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/csc-generation-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/csc-generation-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/csc-generation-llms.txt
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/csc-generation-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/csc-generation-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/csc-generation-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/csc-generation-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/csc-generation-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/csc-generation-lifecycle.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-01'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1

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