Pragma

Pragma is a backend infrastructure company for game developers, used by more than half of top PC and console studios (including studios such as Bungie, EA, and Remedy) to launch and operate live games. The Pragma Platform provides a game backend engine (game loops, player data, live operations, telemetry, and admin dashboards), plus social and commerce services (cross-platform authentication with Steam, Discord, Twitch, PlayStation, Xbox and more, virtual currency, entitlements, and order management). Pragma Connect packages these as a suite of backend tools for Unreal and Unity. Pragma also operates FirstLook, a playtest and community-management platform that runs onboarding, key management, surveys, rewards, creator programs, and player analytics — and exposes a public external REST API (scoped API tokens), Unity/Unreal SDKs, and a hosted MCP server for AI assistants. Added to the API Evangelist network from VC-portfolio signal (Greylock, Insight Partners) and enriched from Pragma's public developer surface.

Pragma is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Infrastructure, Gaming, Game Backend, and Live Operations.

Pragma’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, support, and 17 more developer resources.

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34.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Infrastructure Gaming Game Backend Live Operations Player Accounts Authentication Commerce Playtesting Community Analytics Developer Tools

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 34.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 17

Access Clarity 7.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

11 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
Operational Transparency scores 10.5 — up to +11.6 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 2

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

FirstLook External API

Public external REST API for FirstLook, Pragma's playtest and community platform. Uses scoped API tokens to query players, look up or find-or-create a player, record analytics e...

Pragma Connect

Pragma Connect is a suite of backend game-development tools — player accounts, social, economy/commerce, and Limited Access Mode — that integrate with Steam, Twitch, Discord and...

MCP Servers 1

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

Pragma MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.firstlook.gg over HTTP requiring OAuth; 5 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Pragma Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Pragma Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Pragma Scopes

5 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pragma
name: Pragma
description: Pragma is a backend infrastructure company for game developers, used by more than half of top PC and console
  studios (including studios such as Bungie, EA, and Remedy) to launch and operate live games. The Pragma Platform provides
  a game backend engine (game loops, player data, live operations, telemetry, and admin dashboards), plus social and commerce
  services (cross-platform authentication with Steam, Discord, Twitch, PlayStation, Xbox and more, virtual currency, entitlements,
  and order management). Pragma Connect packages these as a suite of backend tools for Unreal and Unity. Pragma also operates
  FirstLook, a playtest and community-management platform that runs onboarding, key management, surveys, rewards, creator
  programs, and player analytics — and exposes a public external REST API (scoped API tokens), Unity/Unreal SDKs, and a hosted
  MCP server for AI assistants. Added to the API Evangelist network from VC-portfolio signal (Greylock, Insight Partners)
  and enriched from Pragma's public developer surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pragma/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- greylock
- insight-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
image: https://pragma.gg/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Gaming
- Game Backend
- Live Operations
- Player Accounts
- Authentication
- Commerce
- Playtesting
- Community
- Analytics
- Developer Tools
apis:
- name: FirstLook External API
  description: Public external REST API for FirstLook, Pragma's playtest and community platform. Uses scoped API tokens to
    query players, look up or find-or-create a player, record analytics events (sessions, counters, durations), list and export
    surveys, and search creators / read the creator leaderboard. Endpoint detail is published as an interactive Swagger UI.
  humanURL: https://docs.firstlook.gg/developers/api/
  baseURL: https://api.firstlook.gg/external
  tags:
  - Playtesting
  - Player
  - Analytics
  - Surveys
  - Creators
  tags_raw:
  - Playtesting
  - Players
  - Analytics
  - Surveys
  - Creators
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.firstlook.gg/external/swagger-ui/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.firstlook.gg/developers/api/
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/pragma-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/pragma-llms.txt
- name: Pragma Connect
  description: Pragma Connect is a suite of backend game-development tools — player accounts, social, economy/commerce, and
    Limited Access Mode — that integrate with Steam, Twitch, Discord and more, with an API reference for Unreal and Unity
    titles.
  humanURL: https://cloud-docs.pragma.gg/
  baseURL: https://cloud-docs.pragma.gg
  tags:
  - Game Backend
  - Account
  - Social
  - Commerce
  tags_raw:
  - Game Backend
  - Accounts
  - Social
  - Commerce
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud-docs.pragma.gg/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://cloud-docs.pragma.gg/api
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://pragma.gg/blog/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://pragma.gg/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://cloud-docs.pragma.gg/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.firstlook.gg/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.firstlook.gg/external/swagger-ui/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://cloud-docs.pragma.gg/get-started
- type: Blog
  url: https://pragma.gg/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://pragma.gg/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.firstlook.gg/manage/~/signup
- type: Support
  url: https://pragma.gg/contact-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://pragma.gg/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://pragma.gg/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pragmaplatform
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.firstlook.gg
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/pragma-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/pragma-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pragma-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/pragma-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/pragma-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/pragma-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/pragma-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/pragma-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/pragma-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pragma-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v1

Pragma API — frequently asked questions

Does Pragma have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Pragma, including FirstLook External API and Pragma Connect.

How do I authenticate with the Pragma API?

Pragma uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Pragma Authentication.

Does Pragma have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Pragma: Remote MCP server at mcp.firstlook.gg over HTTP requiring OAuth; 5 tools listed.

Is the Pragma API ready for AI agents?

Pragma has a Kin Score of 34.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 6.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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