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Litmus Hiring

Litmus is a Y Combinator-backed technical hiring platform that turns repositories, engineering tickets, and job descriptions into structured, project-based technical assessments and interview pipelines tailored to how a team actually ships. It evaluates candidates on both code quality and development process, lets them work in their own IDE or terminal, and captures AI-tool usage (Claude Code, Copilot CLI) transparently. Candidate management syncs with the Ashby, Greenhouse, and Lever applicant-tracking systems. Litmus exposes a bearer-key REST API (roles, invites, submissions) and an official hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for agent-driven access to submissions, candidates, pipeline status, and assessment authoring.

Litmus Hiring publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Invites API, Roles API, and Submissions API. Tagged areas include Company, Hiring, Recruitment, Technical Assessment, and Developer Hiring.

Litmus Hiring’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, authentication, and 16 more developer resources.

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41.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 39/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
AccessSelf serve
3 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyHiringRecruitmentTechnical AssessmentDeveloper HiringMCPInterviewingY Combinator

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 41.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Access Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 2.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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
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APIs 3

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

Litmus Hiring Invites API

Candidate invitations

Litmus Hiring Roles API

Open roles within your organization

Litmus Hiring Submissions API

Candidate assessment submissions

Open Collections 4

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Litmus Hiring REST Invites API

OPEN COLLECTION

Litmus Hiring REST Invites Roles API

OPEN COLLECTION

Litmus Hiring REST Invites Submissions API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

Litmus Hiring MCP Server

Official hosted Model Context Protocol server for the Litmus hiring platform. Connects Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor (via Clerk OAuth) and headless/automation clients (...

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Litmus Hiring Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Litmus Hiring Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Litmus Hiring Scopes

7 scopes · authorizationCode

7 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance
 DataModel
DataModel

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: litmus-hiring
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://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/litmus-hiring.png
name: Litmus Hiring
description: Litmus is a Y Combinator-backed technical hiring platform that turns repositories, engineering tickets, and job
  descriptions into structured, project-based technical assessments and interview pipelines tailored to how a team actually
  ships. It evaluates candidates on both code quality and development process, lets them work in their own IDE or terminal,
  and captures AI-tool usage (Claude Code, Copilot CLI) transparently. Candidate management syncs with the Ashby, Greenhouse,
  and Lever applicant-tracking systems. Litmus exposes a bearer-key REST API (roles, invites, submissions) and an official
  hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for agent-driven access to submissions, candidates, pipeline status, and assessment
  authoring.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/litmus-hiring/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-provider-surface
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Hiring
- Recruitment
- Technical Assessment
- Developer Hiring
- MCP
- Interviewing
- Y Combinator
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/litmus-hiring-overlay.yaml
- url: https://litmushiring.com
  type: Website
- url: https://litmushiring.com/docs
  type: DeveloperPortal
- url: https://litmushiring.com/docs
  type: Documentation
- url: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
  type: APIReference
- url: https://litmushiring.com/docs/mcp/quickstart
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://litmushiring.com/privacy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://litmushiring.com/terms
  type: TermsOfService
- url: mailto:support@litmushiring.com
  type: Support
- url: mcp/litmus-hiring-mcp.yml
  type: MCPServer
- url: authentication/litmus-hiring-authentication.yml
  type: Authentication
- url: scopes/litmus-hiring-scopes.yml
  type: OAuthScopes
- url: conventions/litmus-hiring-conventions.yml
  type: Conventions
- url: errors/litmus-hiring-problem-types.yml
  type: ErrorCatalog
- url: lifecycle/litmus-hiring-lifecycle.yml
  type: Lifecycle
- url: conformance/litmus-hiring-conformance.yml
  type: Conformance
- url: data-model/litmus-hiring-data-model.yml
  type: DataModel
- url: well-known/litmus-hiring-well-known.yml
  type: WellKnown
- url: llms/litmus-hiring-llms.txt
  type: LLMsTxt
- url: skills/_index.yml
  type: AgentSkill
- url: security/litmus-hiring-domain-security.yml
  type: DomainSecurity
apis:
- aid: litmus-hiring:litmus-hiring-invites-api
  name: Litmus Hiring Invites API
  description: Candidate invitations
  humanURL: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
  baseURL: https://www.litmushiring.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Invites
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/litmus-hiring-invites-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
- aid: litmus-hiring:litmus-hiring-roles-api
  name: Litmus Hiring Roles API
  description: Open roles within your organization
  humanURL: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
  baseURL: https://www.litmushiring.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Roles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/litmus-hiring-roles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
- aid: litmus-hiring:litmus-hiring-submissions-api
  name: Litmus Hiring Submissions API
  description: Candidate assessment submissions
  humanURL: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
  baseURL: https://www.litmushiring.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Submissions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/litmus-hiring-submissions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://litmushiring.com/docs/rest
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v1