# Instawork

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/instawork/  
**Website:** https://instawork.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 25.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 25.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 30.9 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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)

- **Instawork MCP Server** — Instawork Partner MCP server. Lets business partners find hourly workers and book shifts on the Instawork flexible-staffing marketplace using natural language. Only the USA and ...

## Security (2)

- **Instawork Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Instawork Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Marketplace, Staffing, Gig Economy, Hospitality, Workforce, Labor, MCP, Agents

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