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GetCalFresh

GetCalFresh is a service delivered by Code for America on behalf of the people of California, providing plain-language guidance to help Californians understand and navigate CalFresh (SNAP) food benefits. Since California's statewide move to BenefitsCal.com on the CalSAWS platform, GetCalFresh.org no longer accepts applications directly - it is an informational and guidance site that hands off to BenefitsCal and county agencies for eligibility determination and case processing. No public developer API is documented; historically, before BenefitsCal existed, Code for America's application tooling submitted CalFresh applications to county systems via generated PDF forms, fax, and secure email rather than a documented API.

GetCalFresh is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Civic Tech, Non-Profit, Government, Public Benefits, and SNAP.

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3.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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Civic TechNon-ProfitGovernmentPublic BenefitsSNAPFood AssistanceCalifornia

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 3.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 1.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 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
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector 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.
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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Security Posture 1

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

Getcalfresh Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: getcalfresh
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/getcalfresh/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: GetCalFresh
kind: nonprofit
description: GetCalFresh is a service delivered by Code for America on behalf of the people of California, providing plain-language
  guidance to help Californians understand and navigate CalFresh (SNAP) food benefits. Since California's statewide move to
  BenefitsCal.com on the CalSAWS platform, GetCalFresh.org no longer accepts applications directly - it is an informational
  and guidance site that hands off to BenefitsCal and county agencies for eligibility determination and case processing. No
  public developer API is documented; historically, before BenefitsCal existed, Code for America's application tooling submitted
  CalFresh applications to county systems via generated PDF forms, fax, and secure email rather than a documented API.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/getcalfresh.png
tags:
- Civic Tech
- Non-Profit
- Government
- Public Benefits
- SNAP
- Food Assistance
- California
tags_raw:
- Civic Tech
- Nonprofit
- Government
- Public Benefits
- SNAP
- Food Assistance
- California
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/getcalfresh-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/codeforamerica
- type: Website
  url: https://www.getcalfresh.org
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com