# Outer

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/outer/  
**Website:** https://liveouter.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Outer is a direct-to-consumer outdoor furniture brand founded in 2017 by Jiake Liu and Terry Lin and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, known for its OuterShell built-in cushion cover, OuterWeave wicker and OuterCloud cushions, and for the Neighborhood Showroom program that turns customer backyards into showrooms. Outer publishes no traditional developer program and no OpenAPI, but its Shopify-hosted storefront at liveouter.com serves a real machine-readable agent surface: an /llms.txt and /agents.md agent instruction document, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp advertising catalog search, cart, checkout, fulfillment, discount and order capabilities, a UCP MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp, and OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect discovery documents for the Shopify Customer Account API.

## Kin Score — 22.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 12.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 32.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 24.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | yes |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (1)

- **Outer UCP Shopping (MCP)** — The Universal Commerce Protocol shopping service Outer's storefront exposes over MCP, advertised in the merchant profile at https://liveouter.com/.well-known/ucp. It carries the...

## MCP servers (1)

- **outer-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Outer Authentication** — oauth2/openIdConnect · 1 scheme
- **Outer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Furniture, Home, Direct to Consumer, Agentic Commerce, Shopify, Universal Commerce Protocol

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