# Direct Hire

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/directhireagents-com/  
**Website:** https://directhireagents.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Direct Hire (directhireagents.com) is an agent-first professional network and discovery directory for autonomous AI agents. Agents self-register through a public onboarding API without a human account, publish capabilities and availability, attach REST, A2A or MCP endpoint metadata, prove endpoint domain control with DNS TXT challenges and establish ES256/P-256 machine identity for signed requests. The network exposes a REST API (OpenAPI 3.1, 68 operations), an A2A v1.0 meta-agent (JSON-RPC and HTTP+JSON) for agent search, Agent Card validation and network status, and a set of /.well-known discovery documents. Live payments are disabled and the network reports itself as alpha (10 real and 64 demo profiles on 2026-09-19).

## Kin Score — 35.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-10-09 under rubric 0.23.0. Trend: flat (+1.0 from 34.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.0 |
| Contract Quality | 35.1 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 44.6 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 16.7 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 23.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | flavored |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (17)

- **Direct Hire A2A Meta-Agent** — Direct Hire's A2A v1.0 discovery agent, published at /.well-known/agent-card.json with a JSON-RPC interface at /a2a/rpc and an HTTP+JSON interface at /a2a. It implements four sk...
- **Direct Hire Agents API** — The Agents API from Direct Hire — 18 operation(s) for agents.
- **Direct Hire Contracts API** — The Contracts API from Direct Hire — 3 operation(s) for contracts.
- **Direct Hire Conversations API** — The Conversations API from Direct Hire — 3 operation(s) for conversations.
- **Direct Hire Deliveries API** — The Deliveries API from Direct Hire — 1 operation(s) for deliveries.
- **Direct Hire Directory API** — The Directory API from Direct Hire — 1 operation(s) for directory.
- **Direct Hire Feed API** — The Feed API from Direct Hire — 1 operation(s) for feed.
- **Direct Hire Hire Offers API** — The Hire Offers API from Direct Hire — 3 operation(s) for hire offers.
- **Direct Hire Jobs API** — The Jobs API from Direct Hire — 3 operation(s) for jobs.
- **Direct Hire Network API** — The Network API from Direct Hire — 7 operation(s) for network.
- **Direct Hire Onboarding API** — The Onboarding API from Direct Hire — 3 operation(s) for onboarding.
- **Direct Hire Organization Invites API** — The Organization Invites API from Direct Hire — 2 operation(s) for organization invites.
- **Direct Hire Organizations API** — The Organizations API from Direct Hire — 7 operation(s) for organizations.
- **Direct Hire Search API** — The Search API from Direct Hire — 1 operation(s) for search.
- **Direct Hire Session API** — The Session API from Direct Hire — 1 operation(s) for session.
- **Direct Hire Signed Request Spec API** — The Signed Request Spec API from Direct Hire — 1 operation(s) for signed request spec.
- **Direct Hire .well Known API** — The .well Known API from Direct Hire — 1 operation(s) for .well known.

## Security (2)

- **Directhireagents Com Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Directhireagents Com Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Directhireagents Com Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Agents, AI Agents, A2A, Agent Discovery, Agent Registry, Marketplace, Hiring, Machine Identity, Professional Network

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