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Gather

Gather (gather.town) is a video-calling platform that places people in a navigable 2D virtual space, letting multiple groups hold separate conversations in parallel and walk in and out of them as easily as they would in real life. It is used for remote and hybrid offices, conferences, and events. Gather exposes a public HTTP API for programmatically creating spaces and reading/writing the map (room) data of a space, plus managing a space's email guestlist, and a realtime WebSocket "game" API (via the official @gathertown/gather-game-client SDK) for subscribing to player/movement/chat events and driving avatars or bots. API keys are generated at gather.town/apiKeys and require Admin or Builder permission on the target space. Gather was surfaced as a portfolio company of Index Ventures and True Ventures and enriched into the API Evangelist network.

Gather publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Guestlist API, Maps API, and Spaces API. Tagged areas include Company, Future Of Work, Virtual Office, Video Conferencing, and Collaboration.

Gather’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 21 more developer resources.

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27.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0
1 APIs
CompanyFuture Of WorkVirtual OfficeVideo ConferencingCollaborationMetaverseRemote WorkEvent

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0
Composite quality — 27.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 3.1 / 23
Developer Ergonomics 10.2 / 18
Access Clarity 1.9 / 18
Operational Transparency 2.2 / 12
Contract Governance 0.0 / 11
Discoverability 6.8 / 9
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 1.1 / 10
Agent readiness — 19/100 · 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 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 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
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
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APIs 3

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

Gather Guestlist API

Manage the email guestlist (members/guests) of a space

Gather Maps API

Read and write the map/room data of a space

Gather Spaces API

Create and manage Gather spaces

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Gather HTTP Guestlist API

OPEN COLLECTION

Gather HTTP Guestlist Maps API

OPEN COLLECTION

Gather HTTP Guestlist Spaces API

OPEN COLLECTION

Security Posture 2

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

Gather Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Gather Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI
OpenAPI
 Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
 X-MCPServerCandidate
X-MCPServerCandidate
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs
 GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 Support
Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog
 Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: gather
name: Gather
description: Gather (gather.town) is a video-calling platform that places people in a navigable 2D virtual space, letting
  multiple groups hold separate conversations in parallel and walk in and out of them as easily as they would in real life.
  It is used for remote and hybrid offices, conferences, and events. Gather exposes a public HTTP API for programmatically
  creating spaces and reading/writing the map (room) data of a space, plus managing a space's email guestlist, and a realtime
  WebSocket "game" API (via the official @gathertown/gather-game-client SDK) for subscribing to player/movement/chat events
  and driving avatars or bots. API keys are generated at gather.town/apiKeys and require Admin or Builder permission on the
  target space. Gather was surfaced as a portfolio company of Index Ventures and True Ventures and enriched into the API Evangelist
  network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gather/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- index-ventures
- true-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - 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: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://app.gather.town/images/site/site_preview.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Future Of Work
- Virtual Office
- Video Conferencing
- Collaboration
- Metaverse
- Remote Work
- Event
tags_raw:
- Company
- Future Of Work
- Virtual Office
- Video Conferencing
- Collaboration
- Metaverse
- Remote Work
- Events
apis:
- aid: gather:gather-guestlist-api
  name: Gather Guestlist API
  description: Manage the email guestlist (members/guests) of a space
  humanURL: https://gathertown.notion.site/Gather-HTTP-API-3bbf6c59325f40aca7ef5ce14c677444
  baseURL: https://api.gather.town
  tags:
  - Guestlist
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gather-guestlist-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gather:gather-maps-api
  name: Gather Maps API
  description: Read and write the map/room data of a space
  humanURL: https://gathertown.notion.site/Gather-HTTP-API-3bbf6c59325f40aca7ef5ce14c677444
  baseURL: https://api.gather.town
  tags:
  - Maps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gather-maps-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gather:gather-spaces-api
  name: Gather Spaces API
  description: Create and manage Gather spaces
  humanURL: https://gathertown.notion.site/Gather-HTTP-API-3bbf6c59325f40aca7ef5ce14c677444
  baseURL: https://api.gather.town
  tags:
  - Space
  tags_raw:
  - Spaces
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gather-spaces-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/gather-http-api-openapi.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/gather-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gather-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/gather-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/gather-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/gather-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/gather-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/gather-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/gather-http-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/gather-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/gather-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/gather-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.gather.town/
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/gather-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/gather-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://support.gather.town/hc/en-us/categories/api-integration
- type: Documentation
  url: https://gathertown.notion.site/Gather-HTTP-API-3bbf6c59325f40aca7ef5ce14c677444
- type: APIReference
  url: https://gathertown.notion.site/Gather-HTTP-API-3bbf6c59325f40aca7ef5ce14c677444
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://github.com/gathertown/api-examples
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/gathertown
- type: Support
  url: https://support.gather.town/
- type: Blog
  url: https://gather.town/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://gather.town/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.gather.town/signup
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://gather.town/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://gather.town/privacy
- type: Website
  url: https://gather.town/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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