Government Accountability Office

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the United States government's supreme audit institution. It provides Congress with auditing, evaluation, and investigative services, and publishes reports, testimonies, and other products examining federal programs and policies.

Government Accountability Office is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Accountability, Auditing, Federal Government, Government, and United States.

Government Accountability Office’s developer surface includes developer portal, support, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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16.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

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AccountabilityAuditingFederal GovernmentGovernmentUnited States

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Composite quality — 16.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Reports

Reports

OpenData

OpenData

Source (apis.yml)

aid: government-accountability-office
name: Government Accountability Office
description: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the United States government's supreme audit institution. It provides
  Congress with auditing, evaluation, and investigative services, and publishes reports, testimonies, and other products examining
  federal programs and policies.
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/government-accountability-office.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/government-accountability-office/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-25'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
- Accountability
- Auditing
- Federal Government
- Government
- United States
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/government-accountability-office-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/us-government
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.gao.gov
- type: Reports
  url: https://www.gao.gov/reports-testimonies
- type: OpenData
  url: https://www.gao.gov/about/what-gao-does/data-tools
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.gao.gov/about/legal
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.gao.gov/about/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://www.gao.gov/about/contact-us
- url: https://www.gao.gov/rss/reports.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com