# Horizon Robotics

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/horizon-robotics/  
**Website:** https://www.horizon.auto/en  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Horizon Robotics (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: 9660.HK) is a Chinese provider of smart-driving computing solutions, founded in 2015, that designs the Journey (征程) family of automotive AI processors around its proprietary BPU (Brain Processing Unit) architecture and pairs them with a full software stack — Horizon Mono ADAS, Horizon SuperDrive assisted driving, TogetheROS, Matrix, QoHo and AIDI. Its developer-facing surface is not a hosted web API but a toolchain: OpenExplorer (OE), the model compilation, quantization and deployment kit built around HBDK, HMCT, the Horizon PyTorch Plugin, horizon_tc_ui and the UCP on-board runtime, documented at developer.horizon.auto and doc.oe.horizon.auto. Horizon publishes two genuine agent surfaces on top of that toolchain: a live, unauthenticated remote Model Context Protocol server at mcp.oe.horizon.auto that exposes semantic code and documentation retrieval, and OE-Skills, an Apache-2.0 pack of 37 structured Agent Skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor that drive HBDK compilation, PTQ/QAT quantization, UCP on-board inference and LLM compression.

## Kin Score — 27.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (-0.8 from 28.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 18.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (1)

- **Open Explorer MCP Server** — Horizon Robotics' hosted Model Context Protocol server for the OpenExplorer toolchain. Probed anonymously on 2026-08-22: MCP protocol version 2025-06-18, serverInfo "Open Explor...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Open Explorer MCP Server** — Horizon Robotics' hosted Model Context Protocol server for the OpenExplorer (OE) toolchain. It gives a coding agent semantic retrieval over Horizon's indexed codebases (Milvus-b...

## Security (3)

- **Horizon Robotics Authentication** — 1 scheme
- **Horizon Robotics Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Horizon Robotics Vulnerability Disclosure** — contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Horizon Robotics Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive, Autonomous Driving, Semiconductors, Robotics, Edge AI, Machine Learning, Model Context Protocol, Agent Skills, Developer Tools, China

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/horizon-robotics/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.