Kargo

Kargo (Kargo Technologies, kargo.ai) builds an AI-powered smart loading dock for warehouses and distribution centers. Camera towers (Kargo Tower) and forklift-mounted cameras (Kargo Lift) apply computer vision to every pallet that moves through a dock door, reading LPN, SKU, lot code and expiration-date labels to automate shipping and receiving, verify loads and shipments, detect damage, and feed inventory visibility, shelf-life management, FSMA traceability, claims management, financial reconciliation and automated ASNs back into the customer WMS. Kargo publishes a public integration surface for that data exchange: a REST Document Intake API described by an OpenAPI 3.1 document, a public GraphQL API with open anonymous introspection, a single unified JSON endpoint, a webhook (push) API at shipment and pallet level plus a GraphQL subscription alternative, and flat-file ingest over email, SFTP or AS2. All programmatic access is Auth0 OAuth 2.0 client-credentials bearer tokens.

Kargo publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Public GraphQL API, Documents API, and SKU Master API. Tagged areas include Company, Logistics, Supply Chain, Warehouse, and Computer Vision.

The Kargo catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Kargo’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, engineering blog, signup flow, support, and 30 more developer resources.

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55.7/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 51/100 agent native Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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3 published contracts 2 Agent Skills

Company Logistics Supply Chain Warehouse Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence Shipping Inventory Industrial Automation Freight GraphQL Webhook

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information & Data Management

BC-610

SKU Master

POST /sku_master

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 55.7/100 · strong

Contract Quality 12.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 10.6 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.3 / 10

Contract Governance 2.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 3.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 51/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Protected Resource Metadata +5 pts — a served /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource carrying `resource` (documented), and naming its authorization_servers (verified)
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's

3 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 13.2 — up to +11.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 67.4 — up to +8.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 5

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

GraphQL

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

Postman Collections

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 3

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

Kargo Public GraphQL API

Kargo's original public integration method, maintained for existing integrations and still the surface behind the Unified Endpoint API. Exposes queries for businesses, shipments...

Kargo Documents API

The Documents API from Kargo — 1 operation(s) for documents.

Kargo SKU Master API

The SKU Master API from Kargo — 1 operation(s) for sku master.

Postman Collections 1

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Kargo Public GraphQL API

POSTMAN

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Maintain the Kargo SKU master

AGENT SKILL

Schedule a Kargo shipment and validate it against what the dock sees

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kargo Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kargo Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Kargo Ai Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Kargo Push Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Kargo API Rules

53 rules · 49 errors 1 warnings 3 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Kargo Document Intake Overlay

7 actions · documentation · kargo-document-intake-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kargo Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Kargo Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Kargo Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

GraphQL

GraphQL

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Webhooks

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Idempotency

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Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Postman

Packages

ToolCrosswalk

Examples

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Careers

Careers

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

Overlay

OpenIDConnect

HowItWorks

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kargo-ai
name: Kargo
description: 'Kargo (Kargo Technologies, kargo.ai) builds an AI-powered smart loading dock for warehouses and distribution
  centers. Camera towers (Kargo Tower) and forklift-mounted cameras (Kargo Lift) apply computer vision to every pallet that
  moves through a dock door, reading LPN, SKU, lot code and expiration-date labels to automate shipping and receiving, verify
  loads and shipments, detect damage, and feed inventory visibility, shelf-life management, FSMA traceability, claims management,
  financial reconciliation and automated ASNs back into the customer WMS. Kargo publishes a public integration surface for
  that data exchange: a REST Document Intake API described by an OpenAPI 3.1 document, a public GraphQL API with open anonymous
  introspection, a single unified JSON endpoint, a webhook (push) API at shipment and pallet level plus a GraphQL subscription
  alternative, and flat-file ingest over email, SFTP or AS2. All programmatic access is Auth0 OAuth 2.0 client-credentials
  bearer tokens.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kargo-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.kargo.ai/assets/images/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-23'
modified: '2026-08-23'
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Warehouse
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Shipping
- Inventory
- Industrial Automation
- Freight
- GraphQL
- Webhook
tags_raw:
- Company
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Warehouse
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Shipping
- Inventory
- Industrial Automation
- Freight
- GraphQL
- Webhooks
- Computer-Vision
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Kargo Public GraphQL API
  description: Kargo's original public integration method, maintained for existing integrations and still the surface behind
    the Unified Endpoint API. Exposes queries for businesses, shipments, push messages and the Kargo agent download, mutations
    for creating and updating shipments, orders, order items, SKUs, exceptions and parsed images, and a pushMessage subscription
    as an alternative to webhooks. Anonymous introspection is open.
  humanURL: https://docs.kargo.ai/graphql/
  baseURL: https://api.kargo.zone/public_graphql
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Shipping
  - Logistics
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - GraphQL
  - Shipping
  - Logistics
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/kargo-public-graphql.graphql
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kargo.ai/graphql/
  - type: Postman
    url: postman/kargo-public-graphql.postman_collection.json
- aid: kargo-ai:kargo-ai-documents-api
  name: Kargo Documents API
  description: The Documents API from Kargo — 1 operation(s) for documents.
  humanURL: https://docs.kargo.ai/graphql/
  baseURL: https://api.kargo.zone/public_graphql
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kargo-ai-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.kargo.zone/v1/docs/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kargo.ai/rest-api
- aid: kargo-ai:kargo-ai-sku-master-api
  name: Kargo SKU Master API
  description: The SKU Master API from Kargo — 1 operation(s) for sku master.
  humanURL: https://docs.kargo.ai/graphql/
  baseURL: https://api.kargo.zone/public_graphql
  tags:
  - SKU Master
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kargo-ai-sku-master-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.kargo.zone/v1/docs/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kargo.ai/rest-api
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/kargo-ai-capability-edges.yml
  name: Kargo Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/kargo-document-intake-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kargo.ai/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.kargo.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.kargo.ai/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.kargo.zone/v1/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.kargo.ai/basic_examples
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kargo-authentication.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.kargo.ai/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/mykargo
- type: SignUp
  url: https://athena.mykargo.com/
- type: Login
  url: https://athena.mykargo.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.kargo.ai/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.kargo.ai/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://info.mykargo.com/demo
- type: Postman
  url: https://docs.kargo.ai/kargo-public-graphql.postman_collection.json
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/kargo-sandbox.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/kargo-push-webhooks.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kargo-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/kargo-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kargo-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kargo-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/kargo-data-model.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kargo-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kargo-well-known.yml
- type: OpenIDConnect
  url: well-known/kargo-openid-configuration.json
- type: Packages
  url: packages/kargo-packages.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kargo-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kargo-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kargo-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/kargo-conventions.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/kargo-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/kargo-request-examples.yml
- type: GraphQL
  url: graphql/kargo-public-graphql.graphql
- type: HowItWorks
  url: https://www.kargo.ai/how-it-works
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.kargo.ai/careers
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-23'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 28
  pass: local-v1

Kargo API — frequently asked questions

Does Kargo have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Kargo, including Kargo Public GraphQL API, Kargo Documents API and Kargo SKU Master API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Kargo API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Kargo, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Kargo API?

Kargo documents its authentication (http/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Kargo Authentication.

Is the Kargo API ready for AI agents?

Kargo has a Kin Score of 55.7 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 50.9 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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