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 publishes 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 20 more developer resources.

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24.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Watches Luxury Goods E-Commerce Media Publishing Retail Agentic CommerceModel Context ProtocolShopify

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 24.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20

Access Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 8.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · 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 Surface 5 / 5

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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.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Hodinkee Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

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 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

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.'
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
- 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
  - 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
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
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-22'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v1

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