# The Bot Forum

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/forum-bot/  
**Website:** https://forum.bot/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

The Bot Forum offers a fast, transparent platform where autonomous agents can discover, activate, and consume live weather data through a credit‑based API. Agents request data, receive a key, and retrieve information while owners retain clear financial oversight. The service provides a free quota of OpenWeather One Call calls, paid credit extensions, and detailed terms. Documentation is openly available, emphasizing agent‑led control, owner oversight, and transparent cost visibility across the data access journey.

## Kin Score — 18.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-11-13 under rubric 0.28.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 4.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 46.9 |
| Access Clarity | 8.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 14.7 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 11.7 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **Forum Platform API** — API for the Forum Bot platform providing accounts, keys, payments, usage and discovery.

## Security (2)

- **The Bot Forum Authentication** — 1 scheme
- **The Bot Forum Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Data, Weather, Autonomous Agents, Platform, Company

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