Glossier

Glossier is a direct-to-consumer beauty and personal-care brand (skincare, makeup, body, and fragrance) that sells through its own Shopify-powered storefront at glossier.com. It reached the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, IVP, and Thrive Capital. Glossier does not publish a traditional developer program, but its storefront is agent-native: it implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) with a live MCP endpoint for agent-driven catalog search, cart, and buyer-approved checkout, publishes /llms.txt and /agents.md agent instructions, and exposes Shopify Customer Account OAuth2/OIDC authentication with a discoverable authorization server.

Glossier publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Beauty, Cosmetics, and Ecommerce.

Glossier’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 12 more developer resources.

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21.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyConsumerBeautyCosmeticsEcommerceRetailAgent CommerceUniversal Commerce ProtocolShopifyMCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 21.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13

Governance 1.5 / 12

Discoverability 8.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 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 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

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

Glossier Agent Commerce (UCP / MCP)

Agent-facing commerce surface for the Glossier storefront implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol over MCP: catalog search, cart, checkout, and fulfillment with a buyer-app...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Glossier Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Conventions

Conventions

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: glossier
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://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/glossier.png
name: Glossier
description: 'Glossier is a direct-to-consumer beauty and personal-care brand (skincare, makeup, body, and fragrance) that
  sells through its own Shopify-powered storefront at glossier.com. It reached the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company
  of Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, IVP, and Thrive Capital. Glossier does not publish a traditional developer program,
  but its storefront is agent-native: it implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) with a live MCP endpoint for agent-driven
  catalog search, cart, and buyer-approved checkout, publishes /llms.txt and /agents.md agent instructions, and exposes Shopify
  Customer Account OAuth2/OIDC authentication with a discoverable authorization server.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/glossier/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- forerunner-ventures
- index-ventures
- ivp
- thrive-capital
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: agent-commerce-surface-found
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Beauty
- Cosmetics
- Ecommerce
- Retail
- Agent Commerce
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- Shopify
- MCP
apis:
- name: Glossier Agent Commerce (UCP / MCP)
  description: 'Agent-facing commerce surface for the Glossier storefront implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol over
    MCP: catalog search, cart, checkout, and fulfillment with a buyer-approval invariant on payment. Tool schemas are gated
    behind a UCP agent-profile identity check.'
  humanURL: https://www.glossier.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://glossier-admin.myshopify.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agent Commerce
  - MCP
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - Ecommerce
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/glossier-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/glossier-llms.txt
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/glossier-well-known.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/glossier-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/glossier-scopes.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/glossier-conformance.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/glossier-conventions.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/glossier-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/glossier-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/glossier-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/glossier-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/glossier-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/glossier-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/glossier-conventions.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/glossier-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.glossier.com/pages/responsible-disclosure
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/glossier-domain-security.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ucp.dev/2026-04-08/specification/overview/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.glossier.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.glossier.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: Website
  url: https://www.glossier.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence