Flic

Flic (Shortcut Labs) makes wireless smart buttons and dials — the Flic Button, Flic Twist, Flic Duo, and the Flic Hub — that let people control smart-home devices, lights, music, and cloud services with a single press. Its developer surface is SDK- and protocol-centric rather than a REST API: first-party flic2lib SDKs for iOS, Android, C, Linux, and Windows implement the open Flic 2 Bluetooth protocol, the Flic Hub SDK runs JavaScript modules (MQTT, OSC) on the hub, and "Cloud Buttons" deliver physical button presses to any HTTP endpoint as a signed-JWT webhook. Flic is backed by 500 Global and lists 1,000+ compatible devices and services across smart home, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and logistics.

Flic is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Smart Buttons, IoT, Smart Home, and Bluetooth.

The Flic catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Flic’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, authentication, and 11 more developer resources.

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33.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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CompanySmart ButtonsIoT Smart Home Bluetooth Webhook SDK Hardware

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 33.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.7 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Contract Quality scores 39.0 — up to +15.3 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 10.5 — up to +11.6 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IoT and Smart Home	standard	35.0	-	1
Apple Accessory & Device Ecosystem (MFi, Matter, Apple partners)	standard	35.0	-	1
Wireless and Wired Connectivity Certification (Thread, USB-IF, Wi-Fi Alliance)	standard	35.0	-	1
Home Assistant Custom Integrations (HACS)	standard	35.0	-	1
IFTTT Services (service publishers)	standard	35.0	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Flic Cloud Buttons Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

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

Flic Authentication

jwt-signed-webhook/ble-pairing · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Flic Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Webhooks

Webhooks

Conformance

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: flic
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/flic.png
name: Flic
description: 'Flic (Shortcut Labs) makes wireless smart buttons and dials — the Flic Button, Flic Twist, Flic Duo, and the
  Flic Hub — that let people control smart-home devices, lights, music, and cloud services with a single press. Its developer
  surface is SDK- and protocol-centric rather than a REST API: first-party flic2lib SDKs for iOS, Android, C, Linux, and Windows
  implement the open Flic 2 Bluetooth protocol, the Flic Hub SDK runs JavaScript modules (MQTT, OSC) on the hub, and "Cloud
  Buttons" deliver physical button presses to any HTTP endpoint as a signed-JWT webhook. Flic is backed by 500 Global and
  lists 1,000+ compatible devices and services across smart home, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and logistics.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flic/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Smart Buttons
- IoT
- Smart Home
- Bluetooth
- Webhook
- SDK
- Hardware
tags_raw:
- Company
- Smart Buttons
- IoT
- Smart Home
- Bluetooth
- Webhooks
- SDK
- Hardware
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://flic.io/feed
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://flic.io
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://flic.io/flic-hub-sdk
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/50ButtonsEach/flic2-documentation
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://flic.io/start
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/50ButtonsEach
- type: Support
  url: https://community.flic.io/
- type: Blog
  url: https://flic.io/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://flic.io/shop
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://flic.io/privacy-policy
- type: Packages
  url: packages/flic-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/flic-packages.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/flic-cloud-buttons-webhooks.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/flic-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/flic-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/flic-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/flic-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Flic API — frequently asked questions

How do I authenticate with the Flic API?

Flic uses bearer-token authentication (jwt-signed-webhook/ble-pairing · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Flic Authentication.

Is the Flic API ready for AI agents?

Flic has a Kin Score of 33.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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