Secton API

Secton API is the OpenAI-compatible inference surface from Secton, a small developer-tools company operating at secton.org. It publishes two REST operations — POST /v1/chat/completions, with optional incremental streaming, and GET /v1/models — behind a static API key issued in the Secton Console and sent in the Authorization header. A first-party TypeScript SDK ("secton" on npm) wraps chat, model listing, credit usage and client-side conversation context management. Secton announced a permanent shutdown of the API on 2025-11-18 with an end date of 2025-12-19, yet the host, the OpenAPI and the status page remain live and the Console Terms of Service governing API keys were re-issued effective 2026-08-06 — see lifecycle/secton-api-lifecycle.yml before building on it.

Secton API publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Models API and Chat Completions API. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Inference, LLM, Chat Completions, and Generative AI.

The Secton API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Secton API’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, support, and 26 more developer resources.

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39.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Artificial Intelligence Inference LLM Chat Completions Generative AI Developer Tools OpenAI-Compatible Streaming Machine Learning

What this lets a business do 1

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

Information & Data Management

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Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 39.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.1 / 15

Access Clarity 4.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.2 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 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

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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
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

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 27.6 — up to +14.5 composite points
Contract Quality scores 44.2 — up to +14.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 47.0 — up to +10.6 composite points

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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.

The OpenAI Interface reaches core

declared — publishes a spec that declares them

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

Secton API Models API

The Models API from Secton API — 1 operation(s) for models.

Secton API Chat Completions API

The Chat Completions API from Secton API — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.

Agent Skills 2

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

secton-api-chat-completion

AGENT SKILL

secton-api-list-models

AGENT SKILL

Secton API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Secton Api Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Secton Api Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Secton API API Rules

39 rules · 37 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

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.

Secton Api Chat Api Overlay

8 actions · documentation · secton-api-chat-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Secton Api Models Api Overlay

7 actions · documentation · secton-api-models-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Secton Api Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Secton Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Secton Api Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

DataModel

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

Packages

SDKs

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

name: Secton API
description: Secton API is the OpenAI-compatible inference surface from Secton, a small developer-tools company operating
  at secton.org. It publishes two REST operations — POST /v1/chat/completions, with optional incremental streaming, and GET
  /v1/models — behind a static API key issued in the Secton Console and sent in the Authorization header. A first-party TypeScript
  SDK ("secton" on npm) wraps chat, model listing, credit usage and client-side conversation context management. Secton announced
  a permanent shutdown of the API on 2025-11-18 with an end date of 2025-12-19, yet the host, the OpenAPI and the status page
  remain live and the Console Terms of Service governing API keys were re-issued effective 2026-08-06 — see lifecycle/secton-api-lifecycle.yml
  before building on it.
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
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.secton.org/website-assets/summary_large_image.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/secton-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-08-13'
modified: '2026-08-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Inference
- LLM
- Chat Completions
- Generative AI
- Developer Tools
- OpenAI-Compatible
- Streaming
- Machine Learning
tags_raw:
- ai
- inference
- llm
- chat-completions
- generative-ai
- developer-tools
- openai-compatible
- streaming
- machine-learning
- api
- Machine-Learning
apis:
- aid: secton-api:secton-api-models-api
  name: Secton API Models API
  description: The Models API from Secton API — 1 operation(s) for models.
  humanURL: https://console.secton.org/api
  baseURL: https://api.secton.org
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/secton-api-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.secton.org/api
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/secton-api-models-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/secton-api-list-models.md
- aid: secton-api:secton-api-chat-completions-api
  name: Secton API Chat Completions API
  description: The Chat Completions API from Secton API — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.
  humanURL: https://console.secton.org/api
  baseURL: https://api.secton.org
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/secton-api-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://console.secton.org/api
maintainers:
- FN: Secton
  email: management@secton.org
  url: https://github.com/sectoncorp
generated:
  by: apis.io/add
  model: claude-opus-4-8
  confidence: 95
  at: '2026-08-13T10:46:31.364Z'
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/secton-api-chat-api-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/secton-api-chat-completion.md
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/secton-api-capability-edges.yml
  name: Secton API Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://www.secton.org/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/secton-api-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/secton-api-authentication.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://console.secton.org/api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://console.secton.org/api
- type: Blog
  url: https://secton.org/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://secton.org/contact
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/sectoncorp
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://gitlab.com/wearesecton/secton-sdk
- type: Login
  url: https://console.secton.org/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://secton.org/legal/console-terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://secton.org/legal/privacy
- type: Packages
  url: packages/secton-api-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/secton-api-packages.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/secton-api-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.secton.org
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/secton-api-lifecycle.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/secton-api-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/secton-api-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/secton-api-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/secton-api-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/secton-api-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/secton-api-data-model.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/secton-api-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/secton-api-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/secton-api-rate-limits.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-16'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1
  pointers_deliberately_withheld:
    note: Each artifact below exists on disk and records a real, evidenced ABSENCE. No canonical pointer is wired for it,
      because the pointer would assert a surface Secton does not serve.
    MCPServer: mcp/secton-api-mcp.yml — no MCP server exists; the file holds a derived candidate tool list only
    WellKnown: well-known/secton-api-well-known.yml — every /.well-known/ path misses on every host
    SecurityTxt: no security.txt is served, despite an active HackerOne disclosure intake
    AgentCard: no agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json or /.well-known/agent.json on any host
    Idempotency: conventions/secton-api-conventions.yml — no idempotency key on the billable POST
    ChangeLog: changelog/secton-api-changelog.yml — no API changelog or release notes are published
    Pricing: plans/secton-api-plans-pricing.yml — no pricing page exists (secton.org/pricing 404s)
    Compliance: conformance/secton-api-conformance.yml — no certification or audit is published
    TrustCenter: no trust centre; trust.secton.org does not resolve
    AsyncAPI: no event, webhook or message surface — genuinely N/A, streaming is in-band
    OAuthScopes: authentication is a single all-or-nothing API key; there is no scope surface
    ToolCrosswalk: nothing to cross-walk without an MCP or GraphQL surface

Secton API — frequently asked questions

Does Secton API have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Secton API, including Secton API Models API and Secton API Chat Completions API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Secton API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Secton API, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Secton API?

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

Is the Secton API ready for AI agents?

Secton API has a Kin Score of 39.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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