Schwarz IT

Schwarz IT (Schwarz IT KG, Neckarsulm, Germany) is the IT service company of the Schwarz Group (Lidl, Kaufland), describing itself on GitHub as "the technological heartbeat of the companies of Schwarz Group". It is listed as an affiliated company of Schwarz Digits, the group's IT and digital division, and hosts the Schwarz Digits website. Its public GitHub organization publishes the Schwarz API rule definitions for the Spectral API linter (api-linter-rules), a Spectral IntelliJ plugin, an API-linting-as-a-service project, a Kotlin RFC 9457 problem-details library, community STACKIT Go client and Terraform provider, and SAP/ABAP open-source components.

Schwarz IT publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Health Probe API, Lintings API, and Rules API. Tagged areas include Company, API Governance, API Linting, Spectral, and OpenAPI.

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

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26.4/100 thin Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0
2 published contracts
CompanyAPI GovernanceAPI LintingSpectralOpenAPIRetailGermany

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0
Composite quality — 26.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 11.6 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 1.5 / 17
Access Clarity 1.8 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11
Contract Governance 2.2 / 10
Discoverability 4.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.2 / 15
Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 5
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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APIs 3

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

Schwarz IT Health Probe API

The health-probe API from Schwarz IT — 1 operation(s) for health-probe.

Schwarz IT Lintings API

The lintings API from Schwarz IT — 1 operation(s) for lintings.

Schwarz IT Rules API

The rules API from Schwarz IT — 1 operation(s) for rules.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Schwarz It Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Schwarz It Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Schwarz It Context

5 classes · 18 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Schwarz IT API Rules

10 rules · 8 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Schwarz It Api Linter Service Overlay

10 actions · documentation · schwarz-it-api-linter-service-openapi.yml

GENERATED

JSON Schema 2

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

CreateLintingDto

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreatedLintingDto

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Schwarz It Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Schwarz It Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Schwarz It Agentic Access

3 operations · 1 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

3 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 9

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral
Spectral
 JSONLD
JSONLD
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 DataModel
DataModel
 Components
Components
 Conventions
Conventions
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Conformance
Conformance

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Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs
SDKs
 Packages
Packages
 GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 GitHubRepository
GitHubRepository

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay
 Hosts
Hosts

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: schwarz-it
name: Schwarz IT
description: Schwarz IT (Schwarz IT KG, Neckarsulm, Germany) is the IT service company of the Schwarz Group (Lidl, Kaufland),
  describing itself on GitHub as "the technological heartbeat of the companies of Schwarz Group". It is listed as an affiliated
  company of Schwarz Digits, the group's IT and digital division, and hosts the Schwarz Digits website. Its public GitHub
  organization publishes the Schwarz API rule definitions for the Spectral API linter (api-linter-rules), a Spectral IntelliJ
  plugin, an API-linting-as-a-service project, a Kotlin RFC 9457 problem-details library, community STACKIT Go client and
  Terraform provider, and SAP/ABAP open-source components.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/schwarz-it/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25613864?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:spectral-ruleset-web
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-09 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-09'
modified: '2026-10-09'
tags:
- Company
- API Governance
- API Linting
- Spectral
- OpenAPI
- Retail
- Germany
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/schwarz-it-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/schwarz-it-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/schwarz-it-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/schwarz-it-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/schwarz-it-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/schwarz-it-data-model.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/schwarz-it-components.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/schwarz-it-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/schwarz-it-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/schwarz-it-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/schwarz-it-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/schwarz-it-api-linter-service-overlay.yaml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/schwarz-it-hosts.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/schwarz-it-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/schwarz-it-packages.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://jobs.schwarz/en/privacy-policy
- type: Website
  url: https://jobs.schwarz
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/SchwarzIT
- type: GitHubRepository
  name: api-linter-rules (Schwarz Spectral API ruleset)
  url: https://github.com/SchwarzIT/api-linter-rules
apis:
- aid: schwarz-it:schwarz-it-health-probe-api
  name: Schwarz IT Health Probe API
  description: The health-probe API from Schwarz IT — 1 operation(s) for health-probe.
  humanURL: https://github.com/SchwarzIT/api-linter-service
  tags:
  - health-probe
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/schwarz-it-health-probe-api-openapi.yml
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/SchwarzIT/api-linter-service
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schwarz-it-create-linting-dto-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schwarz-it-created-linting-dto-schema.json
- aid: schwarz-it:schwarz-it-lintings-api
  name: Schwarz IT Lintings API
  description: The lintings API from Schwarz IT — 1 operation(s) for lintings.
  humanURL: https://github.com/SchwarzIT/api-linter-service
  tags:
  - lintings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/schwarz-it-lintings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/SchwarzIT/api-linter-service
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schwarz-it-create-linting-dto-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schwarz-it-created-linting-dto-schema.json
- aid: schwarz-it:schwarz-it-rules-api
  name: Schwarz IT Rules API
  description: The rules API from Schwarz IT — 1 operation(s) for rules.
  humanURL: https://github.com/SchwarzIT/api-linter-service
  tags:
  - rules
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/schwarz-it-rules-api-openapi.yml
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/SchwarzIT/api-linter-service
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schwarz-it-create-linting-dto-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schwarz-it-created-linting-dto-schema.json
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-09'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: 'Enriched 2026-10-09: website and identity verified (partial) from the provider''s own pages; probed URLs below.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/schwarz-it/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
    status: null

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