Quip

Quip is a Salesforce-owned collaborative productivity platform that combines documents, spreadsheets, chat, and tasks into a single workspace tightly integrated with the Salesforce CRM. It enables teams to embed live data, collaborate in real time, and automate workflows across deal collaboration, account planning, and sales operations. The Quip Automation API is a REST interface for creating and managing threads, documents, messages, folders, and users with OAuth 2.0 Bearer token authentication.

Quip publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Collaboration, Productivity, Documents, Spreadsheets, and Team Chat.

Quip’s developer surface includes documentation, developer console, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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17.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

3 APIs

Collaboration Productivity Documents Spreadsheets Team Chat Salesforce

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 17.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.5 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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

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Standards implemented 1

Interfaces this provider implements that became standards by being copied rather than ratified. Each is profiled by the API Commons, and the evidence column says how the claim was established — not that it was made.

SCIM 2.0

prose — states compatibility; nothing published to check it against

5 core of 24 operations graded · api-commons/identity

APIs 3

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

Quip Automation API

REST API for programmatically managing Quip threads, documents, spreadsheets, messages, folders, and users. Supports OAuth 2.0 access tokens passed as a Bearer token in the Auth...

Quip Admin API

Administrative REST API for managing organization-level Quip resources including company configuration, audit events, and user provisioning.

Quip SCIM API

SCIM 2.0 API for automated user provisioning, deprovisioning, and group management from identity providers into Quip.

Security Posture 1

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

Quip Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Console

Console

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Parent Company

Parent Company

Source (apis.yml)

aid: quip
name: Quip
description: Quip is a Salesforce-owned collaborative productivity platform that combines documents, spreadsheets, chat, and
  tasks into a single workspace tightly integrated with the Salesforce CRM. It enables teams to embed live data, collaborate
  in real time, and automate workflows across deal collaboration, account planning, and sales operations. The Quip Automation
  API is a REST interface for creating and managing threads, documents, messages, folders, and users with OAuth 2.0 Bearer
  token authentication.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/quip.png
tags:
- Collaboration
- Productivity
- Documents
- Spreadsheets
- Team Chat
- Salesforce
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quip/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: quip:automation-api
  name: Quip Automation API
  description: REST API for programmatically managing Quip threads, documents, spreadsheets, messages, folders, and users.
    Supports OAuth 2.0 access tokens passed as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.
  humanURL: https://quip.com/dev/automation/documentation
  baseURL: https://platform.quip.com/1
  tags:
  - Automation
  - Documents
  - Threads
  - Message
  - Folders
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Automation
  - Documents
  - Threads
  - Messages
  - Folders
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quip.com/dev/automation/documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://quip.com/api/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://quip.com/dev/automation/documentation/current#tag/Auth
- aid: quip:admin-api
  name: Quip Admin API
  description: Administrative REST API for managing organization-level Quip resources including company configuration, audit
    events, and user provisioning.
  humanURL: https://quip.com/dev/admin/documentation/current
  baseURL: https://platform.quip.com/1
  tags:
  - Admin
  - Provisioning
  - Audit
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quip.com/dev/admin/documentation/current
- aid: quip:scim-api
  name: Quip SCIM API
  description: SCIM 2.0 API for automated user provisioning, deprovisioning, and group management from identity providers
    into Quip.
  humanURL: https://quip.com/dev/scim/documentation
  baseURL: https://platform.quip.com/1
  tags:
  - SCIM
  - Identity
  - Provisioning
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quip.com/dev/scim/documentation
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/quip-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/salesforce-quip
- type: Website
  url: https://quip.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://quip.com/dev/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://quip.com/dev/automation/documentation
- type: Console
  url: https://quip.com/dev/console/
- type: Blog
  url: https://quip.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/quip
- type: Parent Company
  url: https://www.salesforce.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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