# Meritfirst

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/meritfirst/  
**Website:** https://meritfirst.us  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 13.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 12.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 6.6 |
| Access Clarity | 6.6 |

## Agent readiness — 24.8 (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 | yes |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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)

- **Meritfirst MCP Server** — Connect to MeritFirst to manage assessments, review candidates, and analyze hiring data.

## Security (3)

- **Meritfirst Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Meritfirst Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Meritfirst Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Hiring, Recruiting, Assessments, Talent, Skills-Based Hiring, MCP

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