Hodinkee

Hodinkee is a New York-based watch media and e-commerce company founded in 2008, publishing editorial, video and its print Magazine at www.hodinkee.com and selling new and pre-owned watches, straps and accessories through HODINKEE Shop at shop.hodinkee.com. It was acquired by the Watches of Switzerland Group in October 2024. Hodinkee runs no developer program and publishes no OpenAPI, developer portal or API reference. Its one machine-readable integration surface is agentic commerce: the Shopify-hosted store serves a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp and two live, anonymously callable MCP endpoints for catalog search, cart and checkout, advertised from the store's own robots.txt and llms.txt.

Hodinkee is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Watches, Luxury Goods, E-Commerce, and Media.

Hodinkee’s developer surface includes documentation, authentication, support, engineering blog, signup flow, and 24 more developer resources.

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26.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 50/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 API 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Company Watches Luxury Goods E-Commerce Media Publishing Retail Agentic Commerce MCP Shopify

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 26.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 17

Access Clarity 6.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
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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
Fashion & Apparel (apparel, footwear, textiles)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 2

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 1

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

HODINKEE Shop Agent Commerce (UCP / MCP)

The agent-callable commerce surface of HODINKEE Shop. Two Model Context Protocol endpoints are served from shop.hodinkee.com and answered a real tools/list anonymously on 2026-0...

MCP Servers 1

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

HODINKEE Shop MCP

HODINKEE Shop (shop.hodinkee.com) exposes two live, anonymously reachable Model Context Protocol endpoints. Both answered a real JSON-RPC tools/list on 2026-08-22 with full inpu...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

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

hodinkee-build-a-cart

AGENT SKILL

hodinkee-find-a-watch

AGENT SKILL

Hodinkee API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Hodinkee Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Hodinkee Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Hodinkee

8 quoted statements, read from Hodinkee's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Hodinkee

19 quoted statements, read from Hodinkee's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Hodinkee

3 quoted statements, read from Hodinkee's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Hodinkee

1 quoted statement, read from Hodinkee's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Security Posture 2

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

Hodinkee Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Hodinkee Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Hodinkee Scopes

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hodinkee
name: Hodinkee
description: 'Hodinkee is a New York-based watch media and e-commerce company founded in 2008, publishing editorial, video
  and its print Magazine at www.hodinkee.com and selling new and pre-owned watches, straps and accessories through HODINKEE
  Shop at shop.hodinkee.com. It was acquired by the Watches of Switzerland Group in October 2024. Hodinkee runs no developer
  program and publishes no OpenAPI, developer portal or API reference. Its one machine-readable integration surface is agentic
  commerce: the Shopify-hosted store serves a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp and two live,
  anonymously callable MCP endpoints for catalog search, cart and checkout, advertised from the store''s own robots.txt and
  llms.txt.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://www.hodinkee.com/favicon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hodinkee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-22'
modified: '2026-08-22'
tags:
- Company
- Watches
- Luxury Goods
- E-Commerce
- Media
- Publishing
- Retail
- Agentic Commerce
- MCP
- Shopify
tags_raw:
- Company
- Watches
- Luxury Goods
- E-Commerce
- Media
- Publishing
- Retail
- Agentic Commerce
- Model Context Protocol
- Shopify
apis:
- name: HODINKEE Shop Agent Commerce (UCP / MCP)
  description: 'The agent-callable commerce surface of HODINKEE Shop. Two Model Context Protocol endpoints are served from
    shop.hodinkee.com and answered a real tools/list anonymously on 2026-08-22: /api/ucp/mcp implements the Universal Commerce
    Protocol shopping service (13 tools across catalog, cart, checkout and order) and /api/mcp is Shopify''s narrower storefront
    tool set (5 tools). Discovery is at /.well-known/ucp, agent instructions at /llms.txt and /agents.md. The tool schemas
    are authored by Shopify and templated per store; the host, the shop (Shopify shop id 1460732, "HODINKEE Shop") and the
    catalog the tools return are Hodinkee''s.'
  humanURL: https://shop.hodinkee.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://shop.hodinkee.com
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - E-Commerce
  - Watches
  tags_raw:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - Model Context Protocol
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - E-Commerce
  - Watches
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/hodinkee-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/hodinkee-llms.txt
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/hodinkee-well-known.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hodinkee-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/hodinkee-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hodinkee-conventions.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hodinkee-conformance.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hodinkee-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hodinkee-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/hodinkee-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/hodinkee-lifecycle.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shop.hodinkee.com/agents.md
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hodinkee.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://shop.hodinkee.com/agents.md
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/hodinkee-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hodinkee-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/hodinkee-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hodinkee-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/hodinkee-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/hodinkee-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hodinkee-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/hodinkee-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/hodinkee-data-model.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/hodinkee-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/hodinkee-lifecycle.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hodinkee-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/hodinkee-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hodinkee-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/hodinkee
- type: Support
  url: https://www.hodinkee.com/pages/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.hodinkee.com/latest
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/rss.xml
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.hodinkee.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://shop.hodinkee.com/account/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.hodinkee.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.hodinkee.com/privacy-policy
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/hodinkee-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/hodinkee-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/hodinkee-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/hodinkee-ai-preferences.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-22'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v1

Hodinkee API — frequently asked questions

Does Hodinkee have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Hodinkee, including HODINKEE Shop Agent Commerce (UCP / MCP).

How do I authenticate with the Hodinkee API?

Hodinkee documents its authentication (3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Hodinkee Authentication.

Does Hodinkee have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Hodinkee: HODINKEE Shop (shop.hodinkee.com) exposes two live, anonymously reachable Model Context Protocol endpoints. Both answered a real JSON-RPC tools/list on 2026-08-22 with full inputSchema payloads — no O

Is the Hodinkee API ready for AI agents?

Hodinkee has a Kin Score of 26.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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