PBS Biotech

PBS Biotech, Inc. is a Camarillo, California manufacturer of single-use Vertical-Wheel bioreactor systems for cell and gene therapy manufacturing, scaling from 0.1 L benchtop vessels (PBS-Mini 0.1, PBS-Mini 0.5, MiniPRO) through 3 L, 15 L and 80 L production systems (PBS-3, PBS-15, PBS-80), together with single-use vessels, perfusion consumables, process development (CDO) services, field service and service plans. The company is a hardware and consumables business, not a software vendor: it publishes no developer program, no REST/GraphQL API and no machine-readable contract for its bioreactor control software, whose releases are documented only as versioned PDF release notes. Its one genuinely machine-callable, agent-facing surface is its own online store at shoppbsbiotech.com, a Shopify-hosted storefront that serves an llms.txt/agents.md agent instruction document, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, and an anonymous MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp exposing 13 catalog, cart, checkout and order tools for agent-driven purchase of PBS Biotech consumables.

PBS Biotech is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Bioprocessing, and Cell Therapy.

PBS Biotech’s developer surface includes support, pricing, authentication, changelog, and 20 more developer resources.

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29.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 API 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

Company Life Sciences Biotechnology Bioprocessing Cell Therapy Laboratory Equipment Manufacturing E-Commerce Agentic Commerce MCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 29.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.0 / 17

Access Clarity 8.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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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
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

4 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
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 15.8 — up to +10.9 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Cell & Gene Therapy	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 1

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

PBS Biotech Store Agent Commerce (UCP/MCP)

The agent-callable commerce surface of the PBS Biotech online store. Implemented by Shopify on the company's own shoppbsbiotech.com host and advertised by the store's own /llms....

MCP Servers 1

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

PBS Biotech Store Agent Commerce (UCP/MCP)

Remote MCP server at shoppbsbiotech.com; 13 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

pbs-biotech-order-consumables

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pbs Biotech Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pbs Biotech Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Pbs Biotech Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Pbs Biotech Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Pbs Biotech Scopes

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

MCPServer

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Compliance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

HelpCenter

RateLimits

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pbs-biotech
name: PBS Biotech
description: 'PBS Biotech, Inc. is a Camarillo, California manufacturer of single-use Vertical-Wheel bioreactor systems for
  cell and gene therapy manufacturing, scaling from 0.1 L benchtop vessels (PBS-Mini 0.1, PBS-Mini 0.5, MiniPRO) through 3
  L, 15 L and 80 L production systems (PBS-3, PBS-15, PBS-80), together with single-use vessels, perfusion consumables, process
  development (CDO) services, field service and service plans. The company is a hardware and consumables business, not a software
  vendor: it publishes no developer program, no REST/GraphQL API and no machine-readable contract for its bioreactor control
  software, whose releases are documented only as versioned PDF release notes. Its one genuinely machine-callable, agent-facing
  surface is its own online store at shoppbsbiotech.com, a Shopify-hosted storefront that serves an llms.txt/agents.md agent
  instruction document, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, and an anonymous MCP endpoint
  at /api/ucp/mcp exposing 13 catalog, cart, checkout and order tools for agent-driven purchase of PBS Biotech consumables.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pbs-biotech/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/62cc627d7fe73059b1484e97/6375797b9b37d215da32705e_PBS_Wing_Logo_1375C-p-500.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Life Sciences
- Biotechnology
- Bioprocessing
- Cell Therapy
- Laboratory Equipment
- Manufacturing
- E-Commerce
- Agentic Commerce
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Life Sciences
- Biotechnology
- Bioprocessing
- Cell Therapy
- Laboratory Equipment
- Manufacturing
- Ecommerce
- Agent Commerce
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: pbs-biotech:pbs-biotech-store-agent-commerce
  name: PBS Biotech Store Agent Commerce (UCP/MCP)
  description: The agent-callable commerce surface of the PBS Biotech online store. Implemented by Shopify on the company's
    own shoppbsbiotech.com host and advertised by the store's own /llms.txt, /agents.md and /robots.txt, it exposes a Universal
    Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp and an MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp whose anonymous tools/list
    returns 13 tools spanning catalog search and lookup, cart, checkout and order retrieval. Completing a checkout requires
    a buyer-approval step and a meta.idempotency-key.
  humanURL: https://shoppbsbiotech.com/
  baseURL: https://shoppbsbiotech.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - E-Commerce
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  tags_raw:
  - Ecommerce
  - Agent Commerce
  - MCP
  - UCP
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/pbs-biotech-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/pbs-biotech-llms.txt
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pbs-biotech-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://pbsbiotech.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://pbsbiotech.com/customer-support-portal
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://pbsbiotech.com/help-center
- type: Login
  url: https://pbsbiotech.com/vertical-wheel-scaling-calculator-sign-in
- type: Pricing
  url: https://pbsbiotech.com/service-plans
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.pbsbiotech.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://shoppbsbiotech.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pbs-biotech-inc.
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/pbs-biotech-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/pbs-biotech-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/pbs-biotech-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pbs-biotech-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/pbs-biotech-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/pbs-biotech-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/pbs-biotech-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/pbs-biotech-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/pbs-biotech-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pbs-biotech-plans-pricing.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/pbs-biotech-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/pbs-biotech-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/pbs-biotech-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/pbs-biotech-conformance.yml
x-pointer-liveness:
  checked: '2026-08-26'
  method: probed
  note: Every external pointer in common[] was fetched with a browser User-Agent on 2026-08-26 and the status recorded. No
    dead pointers were emitted or left in place.
  results:
  - url: https://pbsbiotech.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://pbsbiotech.com/customer-support-portal
    status: 200
  - url: https://pbsbiotech.com/help-center
    status: 200
  - url: https://pbsbiotech.com/vertical-wheel-scaling-calculator-sign-in
    status: 200
  - url: https://pbsbiotech.com/service-plans
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.pbsbiotech.com/privacy-policy
    status: 200
  - url: https://shoppbsbiotech.com/policies/terms-of-service
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pbs-biotech-inc.
    status: 200
  - url: https://shoppbsbiotech.com/
    status: 200
  not_emitted:
  - url: https://pbsbiotech.com/blog
    status: 404
    reason: No blog exists; no Blog pointer emitted.
  - url: https://status.pbsbiotech.com/
    status: <no response>
    reason: Host does not resolve; no StatusPage pointer emitted.
  - url: https://github.com/pbsbiotech
    status: 200
    reason: Organization is empty (0 repos, created 2026-08-24, no name or description) and unlinked from any company surface;
      no GitHubOrganization pointer emitted.
  - url: https://shoppbsbiotech.com/account/login
    status: 406
    reason: Shopify returned a bot-block for our User-Agent, so liveness was not established; the verified pbsbiotech.com
      scaling-calculator sign-in carries the Login pointer instead.
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
  pass: local-v1

PBS Biotech API — frequently asked questions

Does PBS Biotech have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from PBS Biotech, including PBS Biotech Store Agent Commerce (UCP/MCP).

How do I authenticate with the PBS Biotech API?

PBS Biotech documents its authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Pbs Biotech Authentication.

Does PBS Biotech have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for PBS Biotech: Remote MCP server at shoppbsbiotech.com; 13 tools listed.

Is the PBS Biotech API ready for AI agents?

PBS Biotech has a Kin Score of 29.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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