# Lord & Taylor

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

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.

## Kin Score — 16.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 15.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 61.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

## Agent readiness — 18.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| 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)

- **Lord & Taylor Shopify MCP servers (Storefront + Customer Account)**

## Security (2)

- **Lordandtaylor Authentication** — oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes
- **Lordandtaylor Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Apparel, Shopping, Department Store, Agentic Commerce, MCP

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