Karat

Karat Inc. is a Seattle-based technical interviewing platform that conducts standardized software engineering interviews for enterprise hiring teams through its community of trained Interview Engineers. Karat exposes a GraphQL API, hosted per-customer at https://{subdomain}.karat.io/api/v1/graphql, that lets talent and ATS systems programmatically manage roles and groups, look up users, invite candidates into assessments, retrieve candidacy statuses, code-challenge and interview results, and bulk-update candidacy dispositions. The API uses Bearer token authentication, Relay-style cursor pagination, and ships an example Python SDK and a Postman collection. Karat is SOC 2 Type II certified and certified under the EU-US, UK-US and Swiss-US Data Privacy Frameworks.

Karat publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Technical Interviewing, Hiring, Recruiting, and Talent Assessment.

Karat’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, authentication, sandbox, and 20 more developer resources.

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34.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyTechnical InterviewingHiring Recruiting Talent Assessment Engineering GraphQL

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

Composite quality — 34.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20

Access Clarity 6.3 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 1

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

Karat GraphQL API

Karat's GraphQL API for managing technical-interview hiring workflows: query candidacies, roles, groups and users; invite candidates into assessments; and bulk-update candidacy ...

MCP Servers 1

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

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

GraphQL

GraphQL

GraphQLOperations

GraphQLOperations

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

MCPServer

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

DataModel

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Postman

Postman

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Authentication

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: karat
name: Karat
description: Karat Inc. is a Seattle-based technical interviewing platform that conducts standardized software engineering
  interviews for enterprise hiring teams through its community of trained Interview Engineers. Karat exposes a GraphQL API,
  hosted per-customer at https://{subdomain}.karat.io/api/v1/graphql, that lets talent and ATS systems programmatically manage
  roles and groups, look up users, invite candidates into assessments, retrieve candidacy statuses, code-challenge and interview
  results, and bulk-update candidacy dispositions. The API uses Bearer token authentication, Relay-style cursor pagination,
  and ships an example Python SDK and a Postman collection. Karat is SOC 2 Type II certified and certified under the EU-US,
  UK-US and Swiss-US Data Privacy Frameworks.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/karat/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- norwest-venture-partners
- union-square-ventures
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://karat.com/wp-content/themes/karat/assets/img/png/logo.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Technical Interviewing
- Hiring
- Recruiting
- Talent Assessment
- Engineering
- GraphQL
tags_raw:
- Company
- Technical Interviewing
- Hiring
- Recruiting
- Talent Assessment
- Engineering
- GraphQL
- API
apis:
- name: Karat GraphQL API
  description: 'Karat''s GraphQL API for managing technical-interview hiring workflows: query candidacies, roles, groups and
    users; invite candidates into assessments; and bulk-update candidacy dispositions. Hosted per-customer on a tenant subdomain.'
  humanURL: https://karat.slab.com/posts/karat-api-documentation-dezzam7y
  baseURL: https://{subdomain}.karat.io/api/v1/graphql
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Hiring
  - Interviewing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://karat.slab.com/posts/karat-api-documentation-dezzam7y
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://karat.slab.com/posts/karat-api-overview-6l4gprc3
  - type: GraphQL
    url: https://github.com/karat/api-docs
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://karat.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://karat.slab.com/posts/karat-api-documentation-dezzam7y
- type: APIReference
  url: https://karat.slab.com/posts/karat-api-overview-6l4gprc3
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://github.com/karat/api-sdk#installation
- type: GraphQL
  url: https://github.com/karat/api-docs
- type: Postman
  url: https://github.com/karat/api-docs/tree/main/Postman
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/karat
- type: Blog
  url: https://karat.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://karat.com/contact-us/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://karat.com/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://karat.com/privacy/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://karat.com/customer-faq/
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/karat-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/karat-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/karat-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/karat-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/karat-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/karat-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/karat-lifecycle.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/karat-sandbox.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/karat-well-known.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/karat-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/karat-domain-security.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/karat-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/karat-llms.txt
- type: GraphQLOperations
  url: graphql/karat-operations.graphql
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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