Meritfirst

MeritFirst is a skills-based hiring platform that replaces resume- and credential-based recruiting with practical, real-world assessments. Candidates prove their craft through work samples (Build, Try, Get Seen) and companies evaluate and match them on demonstrated ability rather than pedigree. MeritFirst exposes a hosted, authenticated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so agents and tools can manage assessments, review candidates, and analyze hiring data. Backed by 8VC and Slow Ventures.

Meritfirst is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Hiring, Recruiting, Assessment, and Talent.

Meritfirst’s developer surface includes signup flow, authentication, and 9 more developer resources.

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12.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company Hiring Recruiting Assessment TalentSkills-Based HiringMCP

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 12.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 1.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 6.6 — up to +18.7 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 1

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

MeritFirst MCP

Hosted, authenticated Model Context Protocol server for managing assessments, reviewing candidates, and analyzing hiring data. Streamable-HTTP transport; Bearer MeritFirst API k...

MCP Servers 1

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

Meritfirst MCP Server

Connect to MeritFirst to manage assessments, review candidates, and analyze hiring data.

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 3

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

Meritfirst Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Meritfirst Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Meritfirst Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Security

SecurityTxt

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: meritfirst
name: Meritfirst
description: MeritFirst is a skills-based hiring platform that replaces resume- and credential-based recruiting with practical,
  real-world assessments. Candidates prove their craft through work samples (Build, Try, Get Seen) and companies evaluate
  and match them on demonstrated ability rather than pedigree. MeritFirst exposes a hosted, authenticated Model Context Protocol
  (MCP) server so agents and tools can manage assessments, review candidates, and analyze hiring data. Backed by 8VC and Slow
  Ventures.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - 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
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.meritfirst.us/images/logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meritfirst/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 8vc
- slow-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Hiring
- Recruiting
- Assessment
- Talent
- Skills-Based Hiring
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Hiring
- Recruiting
- Assessments
- Talent
- Skills-Based Hiring
- MCP
apis:
- name: MeritFirst MCP
  description: Hosted, authenticated Model Context Protocol server for managing assessments, reviewing candidates, and analyzing
    hiring data. Streamable-HTTP transport; Bearer MeritFirst API key (mf_) required.
  humanURL: https://meritfirst.us
  baseURL: https://www.meritfirst.us/api/connect/mcp
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/meritfirst-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/meritfirst-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/meritfirst-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://meritfirst.us
- type: SignUp
  url: https://meritfirst.us/login?signup=true
- type: Login
  url: https://meritfirst.us/login
- type: Security
  url: https://www.meritfirst.us/security
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/meritfirst-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/meritfirst-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/meritfirst-security.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/meritfirst-authentication.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/meritfirst-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/meritfirst-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v1

Meritfirst API — frequently asked questions

Does Meritfirst have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Meritfirst, including MeritFirst MCP.

How do I authenticate with the Meritfirst API?

Meritfirst uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Meritfirst Authentication.

Does Meritfirst have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Meritfirst: Connect to MeritFirst to manage assessments, review candidates, and analyze hiring data.

Is the Meritfirst API ready for AI agents?

Meritfirst has a Kin Score of 12.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 15.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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