Scimar

Scimar (Scimar Ltd., formerly styled SciMar) is a privately held Canadian life-sciences company founded in 2009 with its head office in Dauphin, Manitoba and research laboratories in Winnipeg. It commercializes the work of co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. W. Wayne Lautt, who in 1996 identified hepatalin — known in the literature as hepatic insulin-sensitizing substance, or HISS — a liver hormone Scimar describes as the missing link in nutrient partitioning, prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. Its pipeline pairs diagnostics with therapeutics: SciMar NuPa Test, a diagnostic test meal that measures hepatalin production and is in Phase 2 clinical trials in Canada; SciMar NuPa Renew, a pre-meal pharmaceutical preparing for Phase 2B; SciMar NuPa Daily, an antioxidant supplement intended to protect hepatalin production; and Hepatalin-S, a synthetic hepatalin for advanced-stage disease. Alongside the science the company runs the Wellness Transformation Network, a community outreach program with nonprofits, Indigenous communities and Manitoba businesses, and produces the Webby-nominated science podcast Inside the Breakthrough hosted by Dan Riskin. Scimar publishes no product or developer API and operates no developer program. The machine-readable surface on scimar.ca is CMS-provided: a served llms.txt generated by All in One SEO, the anonymously readable WordPress REST API (wp/v2) that returns news stories, pages, team profiles, media and site search as JSON, and a WordPress MCP Adapter that advertises two Model Context Protocol endpoints plus RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 OAuth discovery documents — all of which are authentication-gated.

Scimar is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, and Diabetes.

Scimar’s developer surface includes engineering blog, product news, support, authentication, and 28 more developer resources.

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20.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Company Biotechnology Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals Diabetes Diagnostics Clinical Trials Health Nutrition Research Canada Content

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 20.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.4 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health 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.

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
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
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 1.7 — up to +24.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 25.6 — up to +14.9 composite points

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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
Clinical Trial Sponsors (drug pipelines)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 2

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

Scimar MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter)

Two Model Context Protocol endpoints advertised in the scimar.ca WordPress REST route index under the "mcp" namespace — /wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server and /wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapte...

Scimar Website (WordPress REST)

The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Scimar website at scimar.ca: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than a...

MCP Servers 1

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

Scimar MCP Server

scimar.ca runs the WordPress MCP Adapter. The "mcp" namespace is registered in the site's WordPress REST route index alongside wp-abilities/v1 (the adapter's backing ability reg...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

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

Read the Scimar news archive and science pages

AGENT SKILL

Search scimar.ca and resolve results

AGENT SKILL

Scimar API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Scimar Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scimar Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

Scimar Content Overlay

7 actions · update · scimar-content-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Scimar Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Scimar Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Scimar Scopes

1 scope

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Videos

Videos

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Community

Community

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 8

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

BlogRSS

News

Press

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

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Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Team

Technology

Pipeline

Accessibility

SecondaryMarket

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: scimar
name: Scimar
description: 'Scimar (Scimar Ltd., formerly styled SciMar) is a privately held Canadian life-sciences company founded in 2009
  with its head office in Dauphin, Manitoba and research laboratories in Winnipeg. It commercializes the work of co-founder
  and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. W. Wayne Lautt, who in 1996 identified hepatalin — known in the literature as hepatic insulin-sensitizing
  substance, or HISS — a liver hormone Scimar describes as the missing link in nutrient partitioning, prediabetes and type
  2 diabetes. Its pipeline pairs diagnostics with therapeutics: SciMar NuPa Test, a diagnostic test meal that measures hepatalin
  production and is in Phase 2 clinical trials in Canada; SciMar NuPa Renew, a pre-meal pharmaceutical preparing for Phase
  2B; SciMar NuPa Daily, an antioxidant supplement intended to protect hepatalin production; and Hepatalin-S, a synthetic
  hepatalin for advanced-stage disease. Alongside the science the company runs the Wellness Transformation Network, a community
  outreach program with nonprofits, Indigenous communities and Manitoba businesses, and produces the Webby-nominated science
  podcast Inside the Breakthrough hosted by Dan Riskin. Scimar publishes no product or developer API and operates no developer
  program. The machine-readable surface on scimar.ca is CMS-provided: a served llms.txt generated by All in One SEO, the anonymously
  readable WordPress REST API (wp/v2) that returns news stories, pages, team profiles, media and site search as JSON, and
  a WordPress MCP Adapter that advertises two Model Context Protocol endpoints plus RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 OAuth discovery
  documents — all of which are authentication-gated.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scimar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://scimar.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/scimar-logo.svg
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Life Sciences
- Pharmaceuticals
- Diabetes
- Diagnostics
- Clinical Trials
- Health
- Nutrition
- Research
- Canada
- Content
tags_raw:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Life Sciences
- Pharmaceuticals
- Diabetes
- Diagnostics
- Clinical Trials
- Health
- Nutrition
- Research
- Canada
- Content
apis:
- aid: scimar:mcp
  name: Scimar MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter)
  description: 'Two Model Context Protocol endpoints advertised in the scimar.ca WordPress REST route index under the "mcp"
    namespace — /wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server and /wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server. Both are live and authentication-gated:
    an anonymous JSON-RPC tools/list returns HTTP 401, so the published tool set could not be enumerated. Unusually for this
    class of surface, the OAuth server endpoint answers with a WWW-Authenticate Bearer challenge naming an RFC 9728 protected-resource
    metadata document, and scimar.ca serves both /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (RFC 8414) and /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
    anonymously with HTTP 200.'
  humanURL: https://scimar.ca/wp-json/mcp
  baseURL: https://scimar.ca/wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/scimar-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/scimar-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/scimar-scopes.yml
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/scimar-well-known.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: mcp-plugin
- aid: scimar:scimar-ca-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Scimar Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Scimar website at scimar.ca: the route index of the site''s
    content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://scimar.ca/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://scimar.ca/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://scimar.ca/
- type: About
  url: https://scimar.ca/about/
- type: Blog
  url: https://scimar.ca/news/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://scimar.ca/feed/
- type: News
  url: https://scimar.ca/news/
- type: Press
  url: https://scimar.ca/about/media/
- type: Support
  url: https://scimar.ca/about/contact/
- type: Team
  url: https://scimar.ca/team/
- type: Technology
  url: https://scimar.ca/science-products/the-science/
- type: Pipeline
  url: https://scimar.ca/science-products/product-pipeline/
- type: Community
  url: https://scimar.ca/community/
- type: Videos
  url: https://scimar.ca/videos/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://scimar.ca/about/legal/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://scimar.ca/about/privacy/
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://scimar.ca/about/accessibility/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/698875/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/SciMarL
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://www.hiive.com/securities/scimar-stock
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/scimar-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/scimar-well-known.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/scimar-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/scimar-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/scimar-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/scimar-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/scimar-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/scimar-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/scimar-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/scimar-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/scimar-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/scimar-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/scimar-content-overlay.yaml

Scimar API — frequently asked questions

Does Scimar have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Scimar, including Scimar MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter) and Scimar Website (WordPress REST).

How do I authenticate with the Scimar API?

Scimar documents its authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Scimar Authentication.

Does Scimar have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Scimar: scimar.ca runs the WordPress MCP Adapter. The "mcp" namespace is registered in the site's WordPress REST route index alongside wp-abilities/v1 (the adapter's backing ability registry) and exposes TWO

Is the Scimar API ready for AI agents?

Scimar has a Kin Score of 20.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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