# Puddle

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/puddle/  
**Website:** https://usepuddle.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Puddle is a technical-interview platform for evaluating software-engineering candidates in real-world, AI-enabled conditions. Candidates work through live coding assessments inside a sandboxed environment with an integrated IDE and terminal, and are free to use modern AI tools (such as Claude Code) during the session. Puddle captures detailed signals about how a candidate approaches a problem across structured phases (problem discussion, architecture, implementation, and debrief) and produces an outcome report with confidence scores, focus and iteration-pace metrics, and hiring recommendations. It is sold as a B2B SaaS recruitment-assessment tool via demo and early-access waitlist. Puddle was surfaced as an a16z portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network. As of this pass Puddle publishes no public API, developer documentation, SDK, or OpenAPI surface; the profile below captures its verifiable public web and security presence.

## Kin Score — 9.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 8.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 6.6 |
| Access Clarity | 6.6 |

## Agent readiness — 2.6 (human-only)

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

## Access

Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## Security (2)

- **Puddle Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Puddle Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Technical Interviews, Hiring, Developer Assessment, Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence, Coding Assessment

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