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Kizik

Kizik is the hands-free footwear company founded in Alpine, Utah, built on the patented Cage and Inner Cage step-in technology that lets a wearer put on a shoe without bending down, tying, or using their hands. Kizik sells direct-to-consumer at kizik.com across men's, women's and kids' lines, and licenses its hands-free technology to other footwear brands. Kizik has no traditional developer program, but it operates a real, publicly reachable agent commerce surface: its Shopify storefront serves an agent instruction document at /agents.md and /llms.txt, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, and an unauthenticated MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp exposing thirteen catalog, cart, checkout and order tools with full JSON Schema inputs. Customer identity is OpenID Connect, discoverable at /.well-known/openid-configuration.

Kizik is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Footwear, and Consumer Goods.

Kizik’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 20 more developer resources.

25.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 26/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills
CompanyRetailE-CommerceFootwearConsumer GoodsAgentic CommerceUniversal Commerce ProtocolMCPShopifyDirect to Consumer

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0
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Markets this provider is in provisional

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MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
Fashion & Apparel (apparel, footwear, textiles) 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 2

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.

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measured — observed by APIs.io (shopify)

APIs 2

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

Kizik Agent Commerce API (UCP / MCP)

Kizik's Universal Commerce Protocol surface, exposed over MCP at https://kizik.com/api/ucp/mcp. An unauthenticated tools/list returns thirteen tools covering catalog search and ...

Kizik Storefront Product Data

The read-only JSON product surface of the Kizik Shopify storefront, documented for agents in https://kizik.com/llms.txt: /products.json, /collections/{handle}/products.json, /pr...

MCP Servers 1

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

Kizik UCP Commerce MCP Server

Kizik's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) shopping service, exposed over MCP on Kizik's own domain. An unauthenticated JSON-RPC tools/list returns 13 tools with full JSON Schema...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

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

Kizik API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kizik Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kizik Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Kizik

9 quoted statements, read from Kizik's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Kizik

19 quoted statements, read from Kizik's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Kizik

3 quoted statements, read from Kizik's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Kizik

1 quoted statement, read from Kizik's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Security Posture 2

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

Kizik Authentication

4 schemes

SECURITY

Kizik Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Kizik Scopes

4 scopes · authorization_code

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: kizik
name: Kizik
description: 'Kizik is the hands-free footwear company founded in Alpine, Utah, built on the patented Cage and Inner Cage
  step-in technology that lets a wearer put on a shoe without bending down, tying, or using their hands. Kizik sells direct-to-consumer
  at kizik.com across men''s, women''s and kids'' lines, and licenses its hands-free technology to other footwear brands.
  Kizik has no traditional developer program, but it operates a real, publicly reachable agent commerce surface: its Shopify
  storefront serves an agent instruction document at /agents.md and /llms.txt, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant
  profile at /.well-known/ucp, and an unauthenticated MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp exposing thirteen catalog, cart, checkout
  and order tools with full JSON Schema inputs. Customer identity is OpenID Connect, discoverable at /.well-known/openid-configuration.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kizik/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
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: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-23'
modified: '2026-10-06'
image: https://kizik.com/cdn/shop/files/social-image-athens-2-soft-chambray.jpg?v=1738684971&width=2048
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Footwear
- Consumer Goods
- Agentic Commerce
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- MCP
- Shopify
- Direct to Consumer
tags_raw:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Footwear
- Consumer Goods
- Agent Commerce
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- MCP
- Shopify
- Direct to Consumer
apis:
- name: Kizik Agent Commerce API (UCP / MCP)
  description: Kizik's Universal Commerce Protocol surface, exposed over MCP at https://kizik.com/api/ucp/mcp. An unauthenticated
    tools/list returns thirteen tools covering catalog search and lookup, cart create/update/cancel, checkout create/update/complete/cancel,
    and order retrieval, each with a full JSON Schema 2020-12 inputSchema. Payment completion requires contemporaneous human
    approval; agents must not finalize checkout autonomously.
  humanURL: https://kizik.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://kizik.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - Checkout
  - Catalog
  tags_raw:
  - Agent Commerce
  - MCP
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - Checkout
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/kizik-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/kizik-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kizik.com/agents.md
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/kizik-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/kizik-scopes.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/kizik-problem-types.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/kizik-rate-limits.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
- name: Kizik Storefront Product Data
  description: 'The read-only JSON product surface of the Kizik Shopify storefront, documented for agents in https://kizik.com/llms.txt:
    /products.json, /collections/{handle}/products.json, /products/{handle}.json and /search?q={query}&type=product. No authentication
    is required and the documents are served directly from kizik.com.'
  humanURL: https://kizik.com/llms.txt
  tags:
  - Product
  - Catalog
  - E-Commerce
  tags_raw:
  - Products
  - Catalog
  - E-Commerce
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kizik.com/llms.txt
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: storefront-json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kizik-rate-limits.yml
- url: https://kizik.com/blogs/news.atom
  type: BlogRSS
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kizik-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://kizik.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://kizik.com/agents.md
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kizik-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kizik-well-known.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kizik-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/kizik-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kizik-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kizik-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/kizik-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kizik-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://kizik.com/blogs/news
- type: Support
  url: https://kizik.com/pages/contact
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://kizik.com/pages/faqs
- type: SignUp
  url: https://kizik.com/account/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://kizik.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://kizik.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/kizik-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/kizik-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/kizik-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/kizik-ai-preferences.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-23'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1

Kizik API — frequently asked questions

Does Kizik have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Kizik, including Kizik Agent Commerce API (UCP / MCP) and Kizik Storefront Product Data.

How do I authenticate with the Kizik API?

Kizik documents its authentication (4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Kizik Authentication.

Does Kizik have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Kizik: Kizik's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) shopping service, exposed over MCP on Kizik's own domain. An unauthenticated JSON-RPC tools/list returns 13 tools with full JSON Schema 2020-12 inputSchemas c

Is the Kizik API ready for AI agents?

Kizik has a Kin Score of 25.0 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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