Instawork

Instawork is a flexible-staffing marketplace that connects businesses in hospitality, warehouse, events, retail, and food service with vetted hourly workers ("Pros") for short-term shifts across the USA and Canada. Businesses post or rebook shifts and Instawork's ML-driven "Smart assign" matching fills them, often within hours. Instawork's developer surface is agent-native: rather than a public REST API it ships a hosted Partner MCP server (finch.instawork.com/mcp/partner) secured with OAuth 2.1, plus a published Agent Skill (github.com/instawork/skills) that lets AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor search locations and positions, price shifts, and create bookings on a business partner's behalf. Backed by Craft Ventures, Greylock, GV, and Y Combinator.

Instawork publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Marketplace, Staffing, Gig Economy, and Hospitality.

Instawork’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 11 more developer resources.

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27.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyMarketplaceStaffingGig EconomyHospitalityWorkforceLaborMCPAgent

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scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 27.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 1.5 / 12

Discoverability 8.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

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

Instawork Partner MCP Server

Hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets business partners find hourly workers and book shifts on Instawork using natural language via an AI assistant. Secured with OAuth ...

MCP Servers 1

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

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Instawork Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 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 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: instawork
name: Instawork
description: 'Instawork is a flexible-staffing marketplace that connects businesses in hospitality, warehouse, events, retail,
  and food service with vetted hourly workers ("Pros") for short-term shifts across the USA and Canada. Businesses post or
  rebook shifts and Instawork''s ML-driven "Smart assign" matching fills them, often within hours. Instawork''s developer
  surface is agent-native: rather than a public REST API it ships a hosted Partner MCP server (finch.instawork.com/mcp/partner)
  secured with OAuth 2.1, plus a published Agent Skill (github.com/instawork/skills) that lets AI assistants such as Claude
  and Cursor search locations and positions, price shifts, and create bookings on a business partner''s behalf. Backed by
  Craft Ventures, Greylock, GV, and Y Combinator.'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63fd26f2fd0da53e0276079c/649a16c8f69460000a219a25_Instawork-OG-Image-blue.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/instawork/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- craft-ventures
- greylock
- gv
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Marketplace
- Staffing
- Gig Economy
- Hospitality
- Workforce
- Labor
- MCP
- Agent
apis:
- name: Instawork Partner MCP Server
  description: Hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets business partners find hourly workers and book shifts on Instawork
    using natural language via an AI assistant. Secured with OAuth 2.1 (PKCE + dynamic client registration). Only the USA
    and Canada are supported.
  humanURL: https://github.com/instawork/skills
  baseURL: https://finch.instawork.com/mcp/partner/
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Staffing
  - Booking
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/instawork-mcp.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/instawork-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/instawork-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/instawork-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/instawork-scopes.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/instawork-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/instawork-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/instawork-domain-security.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/instawork/skills
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/instawork
- type: Support
  url: https://help.instawork.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://engineering.instawork.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.instawork.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.instawork.com/business
- type: Login
  url: https://www.instawork.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://app.instawork.com/legal/instawork-terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://app.instawork.com/legal/instawork-privacy-policy
- type: Website
  url: https://instawork.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence