# Korso

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/korso/  
**Website:** https://korsoai.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Korso is a Los Angeles based company (Y Combinator Spring 2026) building tooling for the next generation of software. Its flagship open source product, Shepherd, is a coordination layer for AI coding agents: a Fastify + Postgres hub, a published stdio Model Context Protocol server (@korso/shepherd on npm), a shared zod wire contract, and a React dashboard (@korso/shepherd-ui). Shepherd lets a fleet of agents working across sessions, worktrees, and team members claim files, release claims, broadcast announcements, and refresh a shared workspace landscape so they stop producing merge conflicts and overwriting each other. The MCP surface exposes seven documented tools (work, done, announce, sync, link, unlink, decline). Korso also runs a beta Trading API over its own quantitative trading desk and Korso Research, an AI-native research workspace.

## Kin Score — 28.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 63.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 9.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## MCP servers (1)

- **Shepherd MCP server** — Shepherd is a coordination layer for AI coding agents. The MCP server is a thin stdio client that forwards agent tool calls to a Shepherd hub (Fastify + Postgres), letting a fle...

## Security (3)

- **Korso Authentication** — http · 3 schemes
- **Korso Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Korso Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Agents, MCP, Developer Tools, Open-Source, Agent Coordination, Y Combinator

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