Outlier

Outlier is a consumer online-education company that delivers college-level, for-credit courses (Calculus, Psychology, Financial Accounting, Computer Science, Astronomy, Business, and Professional Communication) to high-school and independent learners through dual-enrollment partnerships, offering transferable credit from an accredited university. Outlier was surfaced as a portfolio company of GV (Google Ventures). Its public storefront at www.outlier.org runs on Shopify and exposes a real agent-commerce surface: an llms.txt / agents.md instruction file, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, a hosted UCP shopping MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp, and Shopify Customer Account OpenID Connect discovery at /.well-known/openid-configuration. This profile was enriched from those publicly served surfaces; there is no first-party developer/API program.

Outlier publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Education, Online Learning, and Dual Enrollment.

Outlier’s developer surface includes documentation, authentication, and 11 more developer resources.

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22.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyConsumerEducationOnline LearningDual EnrollmentE-CommerceShopifyAgent CommerceMCP

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 22.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 7.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 8.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 19/100 · 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 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

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

Outlier UCP Agent Commerce (MCP)

Shopify-native Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) shopping surface for the Outlier storefront. Agents discover capabilities at /.well-known/ucp and transact via the hosted MCP en...

MCP Servers 1

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

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Outlier Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

MCPServer

MCPServer

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 11
  pass: local-v1
aid: outlier
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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/outlier.png
name: Outlier
description: 'Outlier is a consumer online-education company that delivers college-level, for-credit courses (Calculus, Psychology,
  Financial Accounting, Computer Science, Astronomy, Business, and Professional Communication) to high-school and independent
  learners through dual-enrollment partnerships, offering transferable credit from an accredited university. Outlier was surfaced
  as a portfolio company of GV (Google Ventures). Its public storefront at www.outlier.org runs on Shopify and exposes a real
  agent-commerce surface: an llms.txt / agents.md instruction file, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at
  /.well-known/ucp, a hosted UCP shopping MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp, and Shopify Customer Account OpenID Connect discovery
  at /.well-known/openid-configuration. This profile was enriched from those publicly served surfaces; there is no first-party
  developer/API program.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/outlier/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Education
- Online Learning
- Dual Enrollment
- E-Commerce
- Shopify
- Agent Commerce
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Outlier UCP Agent Commerce (MCP)
  description: Shopify-native Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) shopping surface for the Outlier storefront. Agents discover
    capabilities at /.well-known/ucp and transact via the hosted MCP endpoint (search_catalog, create_cart, create_checkout,
    update_checkout, complete_checkout). Checkout requires contemporaneous buyer approval. Read-only browsing is available
    without auth via Shopify product/collection JSON endpoints. Customer authentication uses Shopify Customer Account OpenID
    Connect.
  humanURL: https://www.outlier.org/agents.md
  baseURL: https://www.outlier.org/api/ucp/mcp
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/outlier-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/outlier-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/outlier-scopes.yml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/outlier-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.outlier.org
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.outlier.org/agents.md
- type: Login
  url: https://www.outlier.org/account
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.outlier.org/pages/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.outlier.org/policies/privacy-policy
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/outlier-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/outlier-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/outlier-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/outlier-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/outlier-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/outlier-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/outlier-lifecycle.yml