Parabol

Parabol is an open-source collaborative workspace that helps teams run more effective, inclusive, and engaging meetings — retrospectives, sprint poker estimation, check-ins/standups, and collaborative Pages documents — all in real time. Parabol exposes a public GraphQL API at action.parabol.co/graphql authenticated with scoped Personal Access Tokens (Bearer), letting developers and AI agents start meetings, create reflections and tasks, read team and organization data, and subscribe to live meeting events. The platform is dual-licensed AGPLv3, self-hostable for air-gapped deployments, and integrates with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Azure DevOps, Slack, and Mattermost.

Parabol publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: GraphQL API. Tagged areas include Company, Developer Tools, Agile, Retrospectives, and Meetings.

The Parabol catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Parabol’s developer surface includes API reference, documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, support, and 24 more developer resources.

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48.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 39/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyDeveloper ToolsAgileRetrospectivesMeetingsCollaborationGraphQLTeam ProductivityOpen Source

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 48.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 8.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 1

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

Parabol GraphQL API

Public GraphQL API for Parabol. Authenticated with scoped Personal Access Tokens passed as a Bearer token. A single root `viewer` query returns the authenticated user and their ...

MCP Servers 1

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

parabol-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Parabol GraphQL Subscriptions

Real-time event streams exposed by the Parabol GraphQL API via the Subscription root type, delivered over the graphql-ws WebSocket protocol. Requires a scoped Personal Access To...

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 4

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

Parabol Authentication

http-bearer/personal-access-token · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Parabol Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Parabol Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Parabol Trust Center

SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, CalOPPA

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Parabol Scopes

16 scopes

16 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference
APIReference
 Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance
 Webhooks
Webhooks
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes
 Compliance
Compliance
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

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Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 StatusPage
StatusPage
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 19
  pass: local-v1
aid: parabol
name: Parabol
description: Parabol is an open-source collaborative workspace that helps teams run more effective, inclusive, and engaging
  meetings — retrospectives, sprint poker estimation, check-ins/standups, and collaborative Pages documents — all in real
  time. Parabol exposes a public GraphQL API at action.parabol.co/graphql authenticated with scoped Personal Access Tokens
  (Bearer), letting developers and AI agents start meetings, create reflections and tasks, read team and organization data,
  and subscribe to live meeting events. The platform is dual-licensed AGPLv3, self-hostable for air-gapped deployments, and
  integrates with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Azure DevOps, Slack, and Mattermost.
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://action-files.parabol.co/production/build/favicon.ico
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/parabol/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- crv
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- Agile
- Retrospectives
- Meetings
- Collaboration
- GraphQL
- Team Productivity
- Open Source
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Parabol GraphQL API
  description: Public GraphQL API for Parabol. Authenticated with scoped Personal Access Tokens passed as a Bearer token.
    A single root `viewer` query returns the authenticated user and their teams, meetings, tasks, and pages; mutations start
    and drive meetings, create reflections/tasks/pages/comments; and five subscriptions stream live meeting, team, organization,
    task, and notification events.
  humanURL: https://www.parabol.co/friday-ship/introducing-the-parabol-api/
  baseURL: https://action.parabol.co/graphql
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/parabol-schema.graphql
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/parabol-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/parabol-scopes.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/parabol-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/parabol-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/parabol-data-model.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/parabol-graphql-subscriptions-asyncapi.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/parabol-mcp.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.parabol.co/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://action.parabol.co/graphql
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.parabol.co/friday-ship/introducing-the-parabol-api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.parabol.co/friday-ship/introducing-the-parabol-api/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.parabol.co/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ParabolInc
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.parabol.co/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://action.parabol.co/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.parabol.co/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.parabol.co/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.parabol.co/contact/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://parabol.statuspage.io/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol/releases
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/parabol-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/parabol-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/parabol-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/parabol-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/parabol-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/parabol-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.parabol.co/security-faq/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/parabol-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/parabol-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.parabol.co/security-faq/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/parabol-domain-security.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/parabol-graphql-subscriptions-asyncapi.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/parabol-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/parabol-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/parabol-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/parabol-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/parabol-changelog.yml