Lord & Taylor

Lord & Taylor is one of the oldest American department-store apparel and home-goods retail brands, now operating as a direct-to-consumer online store at lordandtaylor.com. The storefront runs on the Shopify commerce platform, so its public, agent-accessible API surface is the Shopify commerce stack: OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect customer authentication (issued via Shopify Customer Accounts) plus two hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — an unauthenticated Storefront MCP exposing product search, cart, product-detail and store-policy tools, and an OAuth-protected Customer Account MCP exposing order-status, return-request and store-credit tools. Surfaced into the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-lead stub and enriched from live discovery documents and MCP tool listings.

Lord & Taylor is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Apparel, and Shopping.

Lord & Taylor’s developer surface includes authentication and 10 more developer resources.

17.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
0 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyRetailE-CommerceApparelShoppingDepartment StoreAgentic CommerceMCP

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 17.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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MCP Servers 1

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

Security Posture 2

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

Lordandtaylor Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Lordandtaylor Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Lordandtaylor Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: lordandtaylor
name: Lord & Taylor
description: 'Lord & Taylor is one of the oldest American department-store apparel and home-goods retail brands, now operating
  as a direct-to-consumer online store at lordandtaylor.com. The storefront runs on the Shopify commerce platform, so its
  public, agent-accessible API surface is the Shopify commerce stack: OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect customer authentication (issued
  via Shopify Customer Accounts) plus two hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — an unauthenticated Storefront MCP
  exposing product search, cart, product-detail and store-policy tools, and an OAuth-protected Customer Account MCP exposing
  order-status, return-request and store-credit tools. Surfaced into the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-lead stub and
  enriched from live discovery documents and MCP tool listings.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lordandtaylor/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- norwest-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Apparel
- Shopping
- Department Store
- Agentic Commerce
- MCP
image: https://www.lordandtaylor.com/cdn/shop/files/logo.png
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://lordandtaylor.com
- type: MCPServer
  name: Lord & Taylor Shopify MCP servers (Storefront + Customer Account)
  url: mcp/lordandtaylor-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/lordandtaylor-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lordandtaylor-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/lordandtaylor-scopes.yml
- type: OpenIDConnect
  url: https://www.lordandtaylor.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lordandtaylor-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lordandtaylor-domain-security.yml
- type: Login
  url: https://account.lordandtaylor.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://lordandtaylor.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://lordandtaylor.com/policies/terms-of-service
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v1