Gardin

Gardin is a UK-based agritech company (Abingdon, Oxfordshire) whose product, Gardin Pulse, is a real-time plant-level crop intelligence platform built on an optical sensor that measures chlorophyll fluorescence to assess photosynthetic efficiency. The sensors detect crop stress weeks before visible symptoms appear, letting growers optimise lighting, irrigation and climate control across glasshouses, polytunnels and indoor farms. Gardin exposes this plant-health data to growers and developers through the Gardin API — a set of OAuth2 client-credentials-secured HTTP services covering sensor/device management, an asynchronous bulk Query API for chlorophyll-fluorescence and Gardin-indices data, and a Notification API that delivers real-time plant alerts over webhooks and websockets. Gardin also integrates plant feedback into leading climate-control systems including Priva, Ridder and LetsGrow.

Gardin is listed with 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Agriculture, AgTech, Precision Agriculture, and Plant Health.

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

Gardin’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, changelog, engineering blog, support, authentication, and 18 more developer resources.

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40.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

AccessSelf serve

3 APIs

Company Agriculture AgTech Precision Agriculture Plant Health Photosynthesis IoT Sensors GreenhouseCrop IntelligenceSustainability Data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 40.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.7 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 23/100 · 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 8 / 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

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Agriculture and Food (Farm Data, Nutrition)	undeclared	-	-	-

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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.

Greenhouse

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 3

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

Gardin Query API

Asynchronous bulk data API for downloading chlorophyll-fluorescence (ChF) and Gardin-indices data. Submit a query, poll its status, then download the result set as CSV. Supports...

Gardin Sensor Management API

Device registry and control API to list and find sensors, group devices, run and stop measurement / pick-poses jobs, enable or disable schedules, and check command job status.

Gardin Notification API

Real-time plant-health alert delivery over webhooks and websockets. Emits PLANT_CRITICAL_ALERT, PLANT_STRESS_ALERT, PLANT_LIGHT_ALERT and PLANT_RECOVERY_ALERT events (RAISED / C...

Event Specifications 1

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

Gardin Notification Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

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

Gardin Authentication

oauth2/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Gardin Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Gardin Scopes

11 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Webhooks

Conformance

DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

StatusPage

Support

ChangeLog

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: gardin
name: Gardin
description: Gardin is a UK-based agritech company (Abingdon, Oxfordshire) whose product, Gardin Pulse, is a real-time plant-level
  crop intelligence platform built on an optical sensor that measures chlorophyll fluorescence to assess photosynthetic efficiency.
  The sensors detect crop stress weeks before visible symptoms appear, letting growers optimise lighting, irrigation and climate
  control across glasshouses, polytunnels and indoor farms. Gardin exposes this plant-health data to growers and developers
  through the Gardin API — a set of OAuth2 client-credentials-secured HTTP services covering sensor/device management, an
  asynchronous bulk Query API for chlorophyll-fluorescence and Gardin-indices data, and a Notification API that delivers real-time
  plant alerts over webhooks and websockets. Gardin also integrates plant feedback into leading climate-control systems including
  Priva, Ridder and LetsGrow.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gardin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://gardin.ag/_astro/get-started.BY5JeD8x.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- seedcamp
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Precision Agriculture
- Plant Health
- Photosynthesis
- IoT
- Sensors
- Greenhouse
- Crop Intelligence
- Sustainability
- Data
tags_raw:
- Company
- Agriculture
- Agritech
- Precision Agriculture
- Plant Health
- Photosynthesis
- IoT
- Sensors
- Greenhouse
- Crop Intelligence
- Sustainability
- Data
- AgriTech
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Gardin Query API
  description: Asynchronous bulk data API for downloading chlorophyll-fluorescence (ChF) and Gardin-indices data. Submit a
    query, poll its status, then download the result set as CSV. Supports control-area, device, index-name, daytime and time-range
    filters.
  humanURL: https://developers.gardin.ag/docs/gardin-api/submit-a-new-query
  baseURL: https://api.gardin.ag/v1
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.gardin.ag/docs/gardin-api/submit-a-new-query
- name: Gardin Sensor Management API
  description: Device registry and control API to list and find sensors, group devices, run and stop measurement / pick-poses
    jobs, enable or disable schedules, and check command job status.
  humanURL: https://developers.gardin.ag/docs/gardin-api/list-all-sensors
  baseURL: https://api.gardin.ag/v1
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.gardin.ag/docs/gardin-api/list-all-sensors
- name: Gardin Notification API
  description: Real-time plant-health alert delivery over webhooks and websockets. Emits PLANT_CRITICAL_ALERT, PLANT_STRESS_ALERT,
    PLANT_LIGHT_ALERT and PLANT_RECOVERY_ALERT events (RAISED / CLOSED) with an HMAC-SHA256 Gardin-Signature header for verification.
  humanURL: https://developers.gardin.ag/docs/gardin-api/plant-alert
  baseURL: https://api.gardin.ag/v1
  properties:
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/gardin-notification-webhooks.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://gardin.ag/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.gardin.ag/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.gardin.ag/docs/dev-guide/getting-started/welcome
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.gardin.ag/docs/gardin-api/gardin-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.gardin.ag/docs/dev-guide/getting-started/welcome
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://developers.gardin.ag/docs/dev-guide/changelog/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.gardin.ag/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/gardinltd
- type: Blog
  url: https://gardin.ag/news
- type: Support
  url: https://gardin.ag/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://gardin.ag/documents/GardinPrivacyNotice.pdf
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/gardin-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/gardin-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/gardin-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/gardin-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/gardin-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/gardin-changelog.yml
  name: Gardin API Changelog (artifact)
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/gardin-notification-webhooks.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/gardin-packages.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/gardin-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/gardin-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/gardin-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gardin-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/gardin-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/gardin-data-model.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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