Scribe

Scribe (scribehow) is an AI workflow-documentation platform founded in 2019 that automatically turns any process or software walkthrough into a step-by-step guide. Its products — Scribe Capture, the knowledge base, and the newer Scribe Optimize workflow-mapping platform — are used by more than five million people across a large share of the Fortune 500. For developers, Scribe publishes a read-only Search & Retrieval API (OpenAPI 3.1) that searches, lists, and retrieves an organization's Scribe Documents and Knowledge Pages for integration into custom applications and AI agents. Public API access is an Enterprise-plan feature authenticated with a static API key sent in the X-API-Key header. The company is backed by Amplify Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global, StepStone, Morado Ventures, and New York Life Ventures, and reached a $1.3B valuation with its 2025 Series C.

Scribe publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Documents API, Search API, and Teams API. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Documentation, Knowledge Management, and Search.

The Scribe catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Scribe’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 22 more developer resources.

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60.8/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Company Artificial Intelligence Documentation Knowledge Management Search WorkflowsProcess DocumentationEnterprise

What this lets a business do 1

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

Knowledge Management

BC-830

Documents

GET /v1/documents/

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 60.8/100 · strong

Contract Quality 11.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.4 / 17

Access Clarity 17.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 11

Contract Governance 3.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
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)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

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 52.7 — up to +11.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 49.4 — up to +10.1 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 36.8 — up to +8.2 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

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

Scribe Documents API

The Documents API from Scribe — 2 operation(s) for documents.

Scribe Search API

The Search API from Scribe — 1 operation(s) for search.

Scribe Teams API

The Teams API from Scribe — 1 operation(s) for teams.

Open Collections 3

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

Scribe Search & Retrieval Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scribe & Retrieval Documents Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scribe Search & Retrieval Documents Teams API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

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

Search the Scribe knowledge base

AGENT SKILL

Sync Scribe documents into an external system

AGENT SKILL

Scribe API pricing

Prices published by Scribe, read 2026-10-28 from scribe.com/pricing. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Basic	Free Includes: Works with any web app; Quick customization; Shareable with link & embed
Pro Personal	$35 per seat per month Includes: Starts at 1 seat; yearly price $25 per seat per month
Pro Team	$17 per seat per month Includes: Starts at 5 seats; yearly price $13 per seat per month
Enterprise	Custom Includes: Everything from Pro Team, plus advanced security and governance

Plan details, limits and sources →

Billed by: seat · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Scribe Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Scribe Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scribe Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Scribe

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Scribe Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Scribe API Rules

52 rules · 50 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.

Scribe Search Retrieval Overlay

4 actions · update · scribe-search-retrieval-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Scribe Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Scribe Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scribe Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FERPA, GDPR, US State Privacy Laws

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Scribe Agentic Access

4 operations

4 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

TrustCenter

Authentication

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: scribe
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: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/scribe.png
name: Scribe
description: Scribe (scribehow) is an AI workflow-documentation platform founded in 2019 that automatically turns any process
  or software walkthrough into a step-by-step guide. Its products — Scribe Capture, the knowledge base, and the newer Scribe
  Optimize workflow-mapping platform — are used by more than five million people across a large share of the Fortune 500.
  For developers, Scribe publishes a read-only Search & Retrieval API (OpenAPI 3.1) that searches, lists, and retrieves an
  organization's Scribe Documents and Knowledge Pages for integration into custom applications and AI agents. Public API access
  is an Enterprise-plan feature authenticated with a static API key sent in the X-API-Key header. The company is backed by
  Amplify Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global, StepStone, Morado Ventures, and New York Life Ventures, and reached a
  $1.3B valuation with its 2025 Series C.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scribe/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- amplify-partners
- redpoint-ventures
- tiger-global
x-tier: active
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-public-api
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Documentation
- Knowledge Management
- Search
- Workflows
- Process Documentation
- Enterprise
tags_raw:
- Company
- Ai Ml
- Documentation
- Knowledge Management
- Search
- Workflow
- Process Documentation
- Enterprise
- Knowledge-Management
apis:
- aid: scribe:scribe-documents-api
  name: Scribe Documents API
  description: The Documents API from Scribe — 2 operation(s) for documents.
  humanURL: https://public-api.scribehow.com/schema/redoc/
  baseURL: https://public-api.scribehow.com
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scribe-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://public-api.scribehow.com/schema/redoc/
- aid: scribe:scribe-search-api
  name: Scribe Search API
  description: The Search API from Scribe — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://public-api.scribehow.com/schema/redoc/
  baseURL: https://public-api.scribehow.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scribe-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://public-api.scribehow.com/schema/redoc/
- aid: scribe:scribe-teams-api
  name: Scribe Teams API
  description: The Teams API from Scribe — 1 operation(s) for teams.
  humanURL: https://public-api.scribehow.com/schema/redoc/
  baseURL: https://public-api.scribehow.com
  tags:
  - Team
  tags_raw:
  - Teams
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scribe-teams-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://public-api.scribehow.com/schema/redoc/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/scribe-plans-pricing.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/scribe-capability-edges.yml
  name: Scribe Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/scribe-search-retrieval-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://scribe.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://public-api.scribehow.com/schema/redoc/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://public-api.scribehow.com/schema/redoc/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://scribehow.com/settings?tab=developerAccess
- type: Support
  url: https://support.scribehow.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://scribe.com/library
- type: Pricing
  url: https://scribe.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://scribehow.com/signup?plan=free
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://scribe.com/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://scribe.com/legal/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.scribe.com
- type: Compliance
  url: https://scribe.com/security
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/scribe-trust-center.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/scribe-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/scribe-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/scribe-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/scribe-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/scribe-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/scribe-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/scribe-data-model.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/scribe-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/scribe-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/scribe-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/scribe-agentic-access.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/scribe-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v1

Scribe API — frequently asked questions

Does Scribe have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Scribe, including Scribe Documents API, Scribe Search API and Scribe Teams API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Scribe API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Scribe, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Scribe API?

Scribe uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Scribe Authentication.

How much does the Scribe API cost?

Scribe publishes its prices; its Pro Personal plan is $35 per seat per month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Scribe, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Scribe API ready for AI agents?

Scribe has a Kin Score of 60.8 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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