Regulations.gov

Regulations.gov is the US federal government's central portal for public participation in the rulemaking process, operated by the General Services Administration. Its REST API enables programmatic access to regulatory dockets, proposed rules, final rules, supporting documents, and public comments submitted to federal agencies. Developers can search and filter content across all federal agencies, retrieve full document and comment details with attachments, and submit public comments programmatically. The API is managed through api.data.gov and uses API key authentication.

Regulations.gov publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including comment submission utilities API, Comments API, Dockets API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Government, Federal Rulemaking, Public Comments, Regulatory, and Dockets.

The Regulations.gov catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Regulations.gov’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, support, and 8 more developer resources.

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31.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

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1 published contract

GovernmentFederal RulemakingPublic CommentsRegulatory Dockets GSA Open Data Government Data

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Public Policy Management

BC-3200

comments

GET /comments

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 31.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 4 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector 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 does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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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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
Open Data Portals (CKAN / DCAT)	undeclared	-	-	-
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	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 4

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

Regulations.gov comment submission utilities API

Utilities to support submitting public comments

Regulations.gov Comments API

Public comments submitted on regulatory documents

Regulations.gov Dockets API

Regulatory dockets grouping related documents

Regulations.gov Documents API

Federal regulatory documents including notices, rules, and proposed rules

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Regulations.gov comment submission utilities API

OPEN COLLECTION

Regulations.gov comment submission utilities comments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Regulations.gov comment submission utilities dockets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Regulations.gov comment submission utilities documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Regulations Gov Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Regulations Gov Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Regulations Gov Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Regulations Gov Context

5 classes · 99 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Regulations.gov — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Comment

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Docket

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Document

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Comment List Response

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Comment Submission Request

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Docket Detail Response

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Document List Response

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Regulations Gov Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Regulations Gov Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Regulations Gov Agentic Access

7 operations

7 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: regulations-gov
name: Regulations.gov
description: Regulations.gov is the US federal government's central portal for public participation in the rulemaking process,
  operated by the General Services Administration. Its REST API enables programmatic access to regulatory dockets, proposed
  rules, final rules, supporting documents, and public comments submitted to federal agencies. Developers can search and filter
  content across all federal agencies, retrieve full document and comment details with attachments, and submit public comments
  programmatically. The API is managed through api.data.gov and uses API key authentication.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/regulations-gov.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/regulations-gov/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Government
- Federal Rulemaking
- Public Comments
- Regulatory
- Dockets
- GSA
- Open Data
- Government Data
apis:
- aid: regulations-gov:regulations-gov-comment-submission-utilities-api
  name: Regulations.gov comment submission utilities API
  description: Utilities to support submitting public comments
  humanURL: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
  baseURL: https://api.regulations.gov
  tags:
  - comment submission utilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/regulations-gov-comment-submission-utilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
- aid: regulations-gov:regulations-gov-comments-api
  name: Regulations.gov Comments API
  description: Public comments submitted on regulatory documents
  humanURL: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
  baseURL: https://api.regulations.gov
  tags:
  - Comments
  tags_raw:
  - comments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/regulations-gov-comments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
- aid: regulations-gov:regulations-gov-dockets-api
  name: Regulations.gov Dockets API
  description: Regulatory dockets grouping related documents
  humanURL: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
  baseURL: https://api.regulations.gov
  tags:
  - Dockets
  tags_raw:
  - dockets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/regulations-gov-dockets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
- aid: regulations-gov:regulations-gov-documents-api
  name: Regulations.gov Documents API
  description: Federal regulatory documents including notices, rules, and proposed rules
  humanURL: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
  baseURL: https://api.regulations.gov
  tags:
  - Documents
  tags_raw:
  - documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/regulations-gov-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/regulations-gov-capability-edges.yml
  name: Regulations.gov Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/regulations-gov-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/regulations-gov-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/regulations-gov-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.regulations.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/GSA
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.gsa.gov/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://api.data.gov/docs/rate-limits/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/regulations-gov-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/regulations-gov-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/regulations-gov-finops.yml
- type: Support
  url: https://www.regulations.gov/support
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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