handy

Handy is a home-services marketplace, now part of Angi (ANGI Homeservices), that connects customers with pre-screened independent professionals for house cleaning, handyman work, furniture assembly, and in-home installations. Handy's Partner API lets retailers offer fixed-price installation and service bookings at eCommerce or in-store checkout: partners create and manage orders, products, and line items, retrieve bookings and their assigned providers, and receive booking-lifecycle webhooks. Requests are authenticated with a custom RSA-SHA256 signed-request scheme.

handy publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Bookings API, Order Products API, Orders API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Home Services, Marketplace, Cleaning, and Handyman.

The handy catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

handy’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, authentication, sandbox, and 22 more developer resources.

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43.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 1 Agent Skills

Company Home Services Marketplace Cleaning Handyman Installations On-Demand Gig Economy Order Webhook RetailAngi

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Home, Device & Consumer IoT

AE-200

Bookings

GET /api/v1/bookings/{id}

Supply Chain Management

BC-520

Orders

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 43.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 15

Access Clarity 3.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 1.1 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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.

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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 15.8 — up to +10.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 59.6 — up to +10.1 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Field Service, Home Services and Trades	undeclared	-	-	-
Accelerator Portfolios (Y Combinator, 500 Global, Antler participation)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

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

handy Bookings API

The Bookings API from handy — 1 operation(s) for bookings.

handy Order Products API

The Order Products API from handy — 2 operation(s) for order products.

handy Orders API

The Orders API from handy — 2 operation(s) for orders.

handy Testing API

The Testing API from handy — 1 operation(s) for testing.

Open Collections 4

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

Handy’s Partner Bookings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Handy’s Partner Bookings Order Products API

OPEN COLLECTION

Handy’s Partner Bookings Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

Handy’s Partner Bookings Testing API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Create and track a Handy installation order

AGENT SKILL

Event Specifications 1

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

Handy Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

handy API Rules

47 rules · 44 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Handy Orders Overlay

1 action · update · handy-orders-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Handy Authentication

signed-request · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Handy Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Handy Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Handy Agentic Access

10 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Conformance

Webhooks

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

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 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: handy
name: handy
description: 'Handy is a home-services marketplace, now part of Angi (ANGI Homeservices), that connects customers with pre-screened
  independent professionals for house cleaning, handyman work, furniture assembly, and in-home installations. Handy''s Partner
  API lets retailers offer fixed-price installation and service bookings at eCommerce or in-store checkout: partners create
  and manage orders, products, and line items, retrieve bookings and their assigned providers, and receive booking-lifecycle
  webhooks. Requests are authenticated with a custom RSA-SHA256 signed-request scheme.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/handy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- slow-ventures
x-tier: active
x-tier-reason: partner-api-enriched
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
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://www.handy.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Home Services
- Marketplace
- Cleaning
- Handyman
- Installations
- On-Demand
- Gig Economy
- Order
- Webhook
- Retail
- Angi
tags_raw:
- Company
- Home Services
- Marketplace
- Cleaning
- Handyman
- Installations
- On-Demand
- Gig Economy
- Orders
- Webhooks
- Retail
- Angi
apis:
- aid: handy:handy-bookings-api
  name: handy Bookings API
  description: The Bookings API from handy — 1 operation(s) for bookings.
  humanURL: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  baseURL: https://partners.services.handy.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Booking
  tags_raw:
  - Bookings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/handy-bookings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/handy-webhooks.yml
- aid: handy:handy-order-products-api
  name: handy Order Products API
  description: The Order Products API from handy — 2 operation(s) for order products.
  humanURL: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  baseURL: https://partners.services.handy.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Order Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/handy-order-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/handy-webhooks.yml
- aid: handy:handy-orders-api
  name: handy Orders API
  description: The Orders API from handy — 2 operation(s) for orders.
  humanURL: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  baseURL: https://partners.services.handy.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/handy-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/handy-webhooks.yml
- aid: handy:handy-testing-api
  name: handy Testing API
  description: The Testing API from handy — 1 operation(s) for testing.
  humanURL: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  baseURL: https://partners.services.handy.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Testing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/handy-testing-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/handy-webhooks.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/handy-capability-edges.yml
  name: handy Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/handy-agentic-access.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://partners.services.handy.com/docs/orders_api
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Handybook
- type: Support
  url: https://help.handy.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.handy.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.handy.com/privacy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/handy-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/handy-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/handy-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/handy-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/handy-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/handy-conformance.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/handy-sandbox.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/handy-webhooks.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/handy-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: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/handy-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/handy-orders-overlay.yaml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/handy-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/handy-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: https://www.handy.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/handy-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/handy-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://handy.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

handy API — frequently asked questions

Does handy have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from handy, including handy Bookings API, handy Order Products API and handy Orders API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the handy API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for handy, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the handy API?

handy uses bearer-token authentication (signed-request · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Handy Authentication.

Is the handy API ready for AI agents?

handy has a Kin Score of 43.7 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 31.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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