The Curator

The Curator (curatorapproved.com) is a personal, publicly indexed collection of products, music, videos and things for making, chosen through an editorial eye. Entries cite maker, merchant and release sources, with dated price observations, disclosed referral links, and AI-generated product illustrations that are labelled as such. The site exposes its catalog for agents: a public JSON catalog with a JSON Schema, RSS feeds per category, an llms.txt index, and a remote, unauthenticated, read-only MCP server (Streamable HTTP at https://curatorapproved.com/api/mcp) with search_curator, get_curator_item and render_curator_items tools.

The Curator is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Curation, Product Discovery, Music, and Video.

The Curator’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, and 19 more developer resources.

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21.1/100 emerging Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company Curation Product Discovery Music Video Maker MCP Catalog RSS

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 21.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 12/100 · 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 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 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 Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

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 12.0 — up to +22.0 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 33.3 — up to +13.3 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 1

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

The Curator Public Catalog and MCP Server

Public, unauthenticated, read-only access to The Curator's catalog of products, music, videos and things for making, published as a static JSON catalog (catalog.json) described ...

MCP Servers 1

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

The Curator remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP, no auth)

MCP SERVER

The Curator API pricing

Rate limits

Browser-agent access session: 15 minutes and 60 operations shared across tools

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

The Curator Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

The Curator Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

The Curator public catalog v1

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

The Curator Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

The Curator Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

LLMSTxt

LLMSTxt

MCPServer

MCPServer

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Idempotency

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Deprecation

Deprecation

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Instagram

Instagram

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Vendors

JSONCatalog

RSSFeed

Source (apis.yml)

aid: curatorapproved-com
name: The Curator
description: 'The Curator (curatorapproved.com) is a personal, publicly indexed collection of products, music, videos and
  things for making, chosen through an editorial eye. Entries cite maker, merchant and release sources, with dated price observations,
  disclosed referral links, and AI-generated product illustrations that are labelled as such. The site exposes its catalog
  for agents: a public JSON catalog with a JSON Schema, RSS feeds per category, an llms.txt index, and a remote, unauthenticated,
  read-only MCP server (Streamable HTTP at https://curatorapproved.com/api/mcp) with search_curator, get_curator_item and
  render_curator_items tools.'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://curatorapproved.com/assets/dry-cleaning-secret-love-art.jpg
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/curatorapproved-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-04 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-04'
modified: '2026-11-04'
tags:
- Company
- Curation
- Product Discovery
- Music
- Video
- Maker
- MCP
- Catalog
- RSS
tags_raw:
- Company
- Curation
- Product Discovery
- Music
- Videos
- Maker
- MCP
- Model Context Protocol
- Catalog
- RSS
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/curatorapproved-com-rate-limits.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/curatorapproved-com-components.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/curatorapproved-com-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/curatorapproved-com-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/curatorapproved-com-authentication.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/curatorapproved-com-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/curatorapproved-com-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/curatorapproved-com-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/curatorapproved-com-llms.txt
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/curatorapproved-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/curatorapproved-com-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/curatorapproved-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://curatorapproved.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://curatorapproved.com/connect/
  name: Connect an agent
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://curatorapproved.com/connect/
- type: About
  url: https://curatorapproved.com/about/
- type: LLMSTxt
  url: https://curatorapproved.com/llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: https://curatorapproved.com/api/mcp
  name: The Curator remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP, no auth)
- type: JSONCatalog
  url: https://curatorapproved.com/catalog.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://curatorapproved.com/catalog.schema.json
- type: RSSFeed
  url: https://curatorapproved.com/feed.xml
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/curator_approved/
apis:
- aid: curatorapproved-com:the-curator-catalog
  name: The Curator Public Catalog and MCP Server
  description: Public, unauthenticated, read-only access to The Curator's catalog of products, music, videos and things for
    making, published as a static JSON catalog (catalog.json) described by a JSON Schema (draft 2020-12), RSS feeds per category,
    and a remote Streamable HTTP MCP server at https://curatorapproved.com/api/mcp with search_curator, get_curator_item and
    render_curator_items tools. No OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or GraphQL contract is published.
  humanURL: https://curatorapproved.com/connect/
  baseURL: https://curatorapproved.com
  tags:
  - Catalog
  - MCP
  properties:
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/curatorapproved-com-catalog-schema.json
    name: Catalog JSON Schema (local copy)
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://curatorapproved.com/catalog.schema.json
    name: JSONSchema (provider-hosted)
  - type: JSONCatalog
    url: https://curatorapproved.com/catalog.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: https://curatorapproved.com/api/mcp
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://curatorapproved.com/connect/
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: 'Name ''The Curator'' read from the site''s <title>, og:title and footer ''© 2026 The Curator''. No terms of service,
    privacy policy, pricing, blog, GitHub or support pages are published; /api returns 404 (MCP endpoint is /api/mcp, GET
    405 as documented: POST-only).'
  evidence:
  - url: https://curatorapproved.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://curatorapproved.com/about/
    status: 200
  - url: https://curatorapproved.com/connect/
    status: 200
  - url: https://curatorapproved.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://curatorapproved.com/catalog.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://curatorapproved.com/catalog.schema.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://curatorapproved.com/feed.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.instagram.com/curator_approved/
    status: 200
  - url: https://curatorapproved.com/api/mcp
    status: 405
  - url: https://curatorapproved.com/api
    status: 404
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 21
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

The Curator API — frequently asked questions

Does The Curator have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from The Curator, including The Curator Public Catalog and MCP Server.

How do I authenticate with the The Curator API?

The Curator uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as The Curator Authentication.

Does The Curator have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for The Curator.

Is the The Curator API ready for AI agents?

The Curator has a Kin Score of 21.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 11.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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