Rock The Bells

Rock The Bells is the hip-hop culture brand and direct-to-consumer merchandise retailer founded by LL COOL J, describing itself on its own storefront as "The Home For All Things Classic and Timeless Hip-Hop". It sells apparel and accessories and publishes editorial across five blogs (features, artists, videos, From Jamaica to the Bronx, and COHH). It ships no developer program and no OpenAPI, but it does serve a live, anonymously callable agent commerce surface: a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP 2026-04-08) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, a 13-tool Model Context Protocol server at /api/ucp/mcp, a fully introspectable Storefront GraphQL API, and an agent instruction document at /llms.txt and /agents.md that its robots.txt and a purpose-built sitemap_agentic_discovery.xml both point at. Discovery is open; payment is gated by a stated human-approval invariant rather than by a credential.

Rock The Bells is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Merchandise, and Apparel.

Rock The Bells’ developer surface includes documentation, authentication, engineering blog, support, and 23 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Profile data on GitHub

25.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Retail E-Commerce Merchandise Apparel Agentic Commerce MCP Universal Commerce Protocol GraphQL Media Music Hip-Hop

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 25.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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/.

Show this score on your site.

It updates itself when the score changes. Paste this where you link to your API docs:

<a href="https://apis.io/providers/rock-the-bells/"><img src="https://apis.io/badge/rock-the-bells/card.svg" alt="Rock The Bells on APIs.io — Kin Score by API Evangelist"></a>

Other styles, a README pill and a shields.io endpoint are on the badge page.

Raise your score.

Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

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
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
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

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 15.1 — up to +21.2 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 30.4 — up to +13.9 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/rock-the-bells/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/rock-the-bells to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

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
Fashion & Apparel (apparel, footwear, textiles)	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.

Standards implemented 2

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.

GraphQL

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 2

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

Rock The Bells Commerce MCP Server (UCP)

A live, remote Model Context Protocol server on Rock The Bells' own storefront host implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol shopping service. Thirteen tools let an agent se...

Rock The Bells Storefront GraphQL API

The Shopify Storefront GraphQL API as served on Rock The Bells' own domain. Full introspection succeeded anonymously on 2026-08-26, returning a 414-type schema with 34 root quer...

MCP Servers 1

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

Rock The Bells Commerce MCP Server (UCP)

Rock The Bells serves a live, anonymously-listable Model Context Protocol server on its own storefront host at https://shop.rockthebells.com/api/ucp/mcp. It implements the Unive...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

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

rock-the-bells-browse-catalog

AGENT SKILL

rock-the-bells-build-cart

AGENT SKILL

rock-the-bells-complete-purchase

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rock The Bells Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rock The Bells Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

JSON Schema 1

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

Rock The Bells UCP/MCP tool input schemas

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Rock The Bells Authentication

5 schemes

SECURITY

Rock The Bells Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

GraphQL

GraphQL

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

MCPServer

WellKnown

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Deprecation

RateLimits

Support

HelpCenter

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

RefundPolicy

RefundPolicy

Source (apis.yml)

aid: rock-the-bells
name: Rock The Bells
description: 'Rock The Bells is the hip-hop culture brand and direct-to-consumer merchandise retailer founded by LL COOL J,
  describing itself on its own storefront as "The Home For All Things Classic and Timeless Hip-Hop". It sells apparel and
  accessories and publishes editorial across five blogs (features, artists, videos, From Jamaica to the Bronx, and COHH).
  It ships no developer program and no OpenAPI, but it does serve a live, anonymously callable agent commerce surface: a Universal
  Commerce Protocol (UCP 2026-04-08) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, a 13-tool Model Context Protocol server at /api/ucp/mcp,
  a fully introspectable Storefront GraphQL API, and an agent instruction document at /llms.txt and /agents.md that its robots.txt
  and a purpose-built sitemap_agentic_discovery.xml both point at. Discovery is open; payment is gated by a stated human-approval
  invariant rather than by a credential.'
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
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://shop.rockthebells.com/cdn/shop/files/RTB-Logo_dbd6e9a5-9b51-485a-970c-04d742548a60.png?v=1749612774
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rock-the-bells/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Merchandise
- Apparel
- Agentic Commerce
- MCP
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- GraphQL
- Media
- Music
- Hip-Hop
tags_raw:
- Company
- Retail
- Ecommerce
- Merchandise
- Apparel
- Agentic Commerce
- Model Context Protocol
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- GraphQL
- Media
- Music
- Hip-Hop
apis:
- aid: rock-the-bells:rock-the-bells-commerce-mcp
  name: Rock The Bells Commerce MCP Server (UCP)
  description: A live, remote Model Context Protocol server on Rock The Bells' own storefront host implementing the Universal
    Commerce Protocol shopping service. Thirteen tools let an agent search the catalog, look up and retrieve products, build
    and cancel a cart, and create, update, complete or cancel a checkout, plus retrieve an order. Every tool carries a complete
    JSON Schema 2020-12 inputSchema, enumerated anonymously — no API key, no OAuth challenge. Completing payment requires
    contemporaneous human buyer approval, which the store states in both llms.txt and robots.txt.
  humanURL: https://shop.rockthebells.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://shop.rockthebells.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agentic Commerce
  - Checkout
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/rock-the-bells-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/rock-the-bells-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/rock-the-bells-well-known.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rock-the-bells-ucp-tool-schemas.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shop.rockthebells.com/llms.txt
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
- aid: rock-the-bells:rock-the-bells-storefront-graphql
  name: Rock The Bells Storefront GraphQL API
  description: The Shopify Storefront GraphQL API as served on Rock The Bells' own domain. Full introspection succeeded anonymously
    on 2026-08-26, returning a 414-type schema with 34 root query fields and 41 mutations covering products, variants, collections,
    carts, customer accounts, blogs, articles, pages and Shop Pay payment request sessions. Dated calendar versioning in the
    URL path; every response carries an extensions.cost query budget.
  humanURL: https://shop.rockthebells.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://shop.rockthebells.com/api/2026-07/graphql.json
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - E-Commerce
  - Catalog
  - Cart
  tags_raw:
  - GraphQL
  - Ecommerce
  - Catalog
  - Cart
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/rock-the-bells-storefront.graphql
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/rock-the-bells-data-model.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/rock-the-bells-problem-types.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/rock-the-bells-authentication.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: storefront-graphql
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://shop.rockthebells.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://shop.rockthebells.com/llms.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/rock-the-bells-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/rock-the-bells-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/rock-the-bells-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/rock-the-bells-well-known.yml
- type: GraphQL
  url: graphql/rock-the-bells-storefront.graphql
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/rock-the-bells-ucp-tool-schemas.json
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/rock-the-bells-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/rock-the-bells-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/rock-the-bells-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/rock-the-bells-problem-types.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/rock-the-bells-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/rock-the-bells-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/rock-the-bells-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/rock-the-bells-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/rock-the-bells-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rock-the-bells-rate-limits.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/rock-the-bells-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/rock-the-bells-domain-security.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://shop.rockthebells.com/blogs/articles
- type: Support
  url: https://shop.rockthebells.com/pages/contact
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://shop.rockthebells.com/pages/faq
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://shop.rockthebells.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://shop.rockthebells.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: RefundPolicy
  url: https://shop.rockthebells.com/policies/refund-policy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 8
  pass: local-v1

Rock The Bells API — frequently asked questions

Does Rock The Bells have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Rock The Bells, including Rock The Bells Commerce MCP Server (UCP) and Rock The Bells Storefront GraphQL API.

How do I authenticate with the Rock The Bells API?

Rock The Bells uses bearer-token authentication (5 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Rock The Bells Authentication.

Does Rock The Bells have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Rock The Bells: Rock The Bells serves a live, anonymously-listable Model Context Protocol server on its own storefront host at https://shop.rockthebells.com/api/ucp/mcp. It implements the Universal Commerce Protocol

Is the Rock The Bells API ready for AI agents?

Rock The Bells has a Kin Score of 25.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

Work with this as data

Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for providers

9 MCP tools reach this

find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This provider

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/rock-the-bells"

All providers

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/rock-the-bells/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/rock-the-bells/evidence"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.