LI-COR Intermediate

LI-COR Intermediate, Inc. is the Battery Ventures-backed holding entity for LI-COR, a Lincoln, Nebraska environmental and life-science instrumentation maker founded more than fifty years ago. The group operates under two brands: LI-COR Environmental (licor.com), which builds greenhouse-gas analyzers, eddy-covariance flux systems, photosynthesis and soil-gas instruments, and the HOBO line of data loggers; and LICORbio (licorbio.com), which builds Western blot imaging systems and infrared fluorescent dyes and reagents. Its instruments are cited in more than 73,000 research publications and used across 1,200+ universities in 150+ countries. The connected-device side of the business runs through LI-COR Cloud (licor.cloud, formerly HOBOlink), which exposes a public read-only HOBOLINK External API for pulling logger and sensor observations into customer systems.

LI-COR Intermediate publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Data API and Newa API. Tagged areas include Company, Environmental Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Climate, and Agriculture.

The LI-COR Intermediate catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

LI-COR Intermediate’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 17 more developer resources.

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37.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Company Environmental Monitoring Greenhouse Gas Climate Agriculture SensorsData LoggersIoT Scientific Instruments Life Sciences Time Series Data

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 37.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.4 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Contract Quality scores 47.8 — up to +13.1 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 37.5 — up to +12.5 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IVD, Diagnostics and Surgical Devices (FDA / EU regulated device makers)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-
Carbon Accounting Disclosure Standards (SBTi, PCAF, CDP, GHG Protocol)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

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 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

LI-COR Intermediate Data API

The Data API from LI-COR Intermediate — 1 operation(s) for data.

LI-COR Intermediate Newa API

The Newa API from LI-COR Intermediate — 1 operation(s) for newa.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

HOBOLINK External Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

HOBOLINK External Data Newa API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

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

Pull sensor-grouped data for one device

AGENT SKILL

Pull HOBO logger observations

AGENT SKILL

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Li Cor Intermediate Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

LI-COR Intermediate API Rules

47 rules · 45 errors 1 warnings 1 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.

Li Cor Intermediate Hobolink Overlay

4 actions · documentation · li-cor-intermediate-hobolink-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Li Cor Intermediate Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Li Cor Intermediate Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Li Cor Intermediate Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Conformance

Lifecycle

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

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 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: li-cor-intermediate
name: LI-COR Intermediate
description: 'LI-COR Intermediate, Inc. is the Battery Ventures-backed holding entity for LI-COR, a Lincoln, Nebraska environmental
  and life-science instrumentation maker founded more than fifty years ago. The group operates under two brands: LI-COR Environmental
  (licor.com), which builds greenhouse-gas analyzers, eddy-covariance flux systems, photosynthesis and soil-gas instruments,
  and the HOBO line of data loggers; and LICORbio (licorbio.com), which builds Western blot imaging systems and infrared fluorescent
  dyes and reagents. Its instruments are cited in more than 73,000 research publications and used across 1,200+ universities
  in 150+ countries. The connected-device side of the business runs through LI-COR Cloud (licor.cloud, formerly HOBOlink),
  which exposes a public read-only HOBOLINK External API for pulling logger and sensor observations into customer systems.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/li-cor-intermediate/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  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
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.licor.com/favicon.ico
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: public-api-found
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Environmental Monitoring
- Greenhouse Gas
- Climate
- Agriculture
- Sensors
- Data Loggers
- IoT
- Scientific Instruments
- Life Sciences
- Time Series Data
apis:
- aid: li-cor-intermediate:li-cor-intermediate-data-api
  name: LI-COR Intermediate Data API
  description: The Data API from LI-COR Intermediate — 1 operation(s) for data.
  humanURL: https://api.licor.cloud/v1/docs
  baseURL: https://api.licor.cloud
  tags:
  - Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/li-cor-intermediate-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.licor.cloud/v1/docs
- aid: li-cor-intermediate:li-cor-intermediate-newa-api
  name: LI-COR Intermediate Newa API
  description: The Newa API from LI-COR Intermediate — 1 operation(s) for newa.
  humanURL: https://api.licor.cloud/v1/docs
  baseURL: https://api.licor.cloud
  tags:
  - Newa
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/li-cor-intermediate-newa-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.licor.cloud/v1/docs
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/li-cor-intermediate-hobolink-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/li-cor-intermediate-agentic-access.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.licor.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.licor.cloud/v1/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.licor.cloud/v1/docs
- type: Support
  url: https://www.licor.com/support/home.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.licor.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/LI-COR
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.licor.com/corp/legal
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.licor.com/corp/privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/li-cor-intermediate-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/li-cor-intermediate-error-codes.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/li-cor-intermediate-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/li-cor-intermediate-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/li-cor-intermediate-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/li-cor-intermediate-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/li-cor-intermediate-data-model.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/li-cor-intermediate-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/li-cor-intermediate-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/li-cor-intermediate-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/li-cor-intermediate-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

LI-COR Intermediate API — frequently asked questions

Does LI-COR Intermediate have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from LI-COR Intermediate, including LI-COR Intermediate Data API and LI-COR Intermediate Newa API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the LI-COR Intermediate API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for LI-COR Intermediate, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the LI-COR Intermediate API?

LI-COR Intermediate uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Li Cor Intermediate Authentication.

Is the LI-COR Intermediate API ready for AI agents?

LI-COR Intermediate has a Kin Score of 37.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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