Slingshot Biosciences

Slingshot Biosciences is an Emeryville, California biotechnology company that engineers synthetic cell mimics — hydrogel-based particles that behave like real cells — as reproducible reference materials and controls for flow cytometry, spectral unmixing, immunophenotyping, cell and gene therapy potency assays, and instrument standardization. Its product families include TruCytes biomarker controls, ViaComp cell health controls, FlowCytes and ScatterBridge calibration controls, SpectraComp compensation and unmixing controls, QuantCytes quantitation controls and StimCytes functional controls. The company sells direct through a Shopify-backed storefront and publishes an unusually complete agent-facing surface for a life-sciences vendor: an llms.txt, an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog naming its Shopify Storefront GraphQL and Sanity Content Lake GROQ endpoints, content negotiation that serves markdown twins of every canonical page to agents that send Accept: text/markdown, and a live Shopify Storefront MCP server.

Slingshot Biosciences publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Flow Cytometry, and Laboratory.

Slingshot Biosciences’ developer surface includes engineering blog, support, pricing, signup flow, authentication, and 14 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

39.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 43/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessSelf serve

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Biotechnology Life SciencesFlow CytometryLaboratory Synthetic Biology Diagnostics Cell Therapy E-Commerce GraphQL MCP

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 39.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 7.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 17

Access Clarity 7.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 43/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 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 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 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

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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APIs 3

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

Slingshot Bio Storefront GraphQL API

The Shopify Storefront GraphQL API for the Slingshot Bio online store, declared by the company in its own /.well-known/api-catalog. Serves products, collections, cart and checko...

Slingshot Bio Content Lake GROQ API

The Sanity Content Lake GROQ query API for the Slingshot Bio editorial surface — pages, resources, blog posts, press releases, product sheets and webinars — declared by the comp...

Slingshot Bio Storefront MCP Server

A live Model Context Protocol server for the Slingshot Bio store, answering anonymous tools/list over HTTP JSON-RPC with five tools: search_catalog, get_product_details, get_car...

MCP Servers 1

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

Slingshot Biosciences MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Slingshot Biosciences Authentication

none/oauth2/openIdConnect · 5 schemes

SECURITY

Slingshot Biosciences Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Slingshot Biosciences Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

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

APICatalog

APICatalog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: slingshot-biosciences
name: Slingshot Biosciences
description: 'Slingshot Biosciences is an Emeryville, California biotechnology company that engineers synthetic cell mimics
  — hydrogel-based particles that behave like real cells — as reproducible reference materials and controls for flow cytometry,
  spectral unmixing, immunophenotyping, cell and gene therapy potency assays, and instrument standardization. Its product
  families include TruCytes biomarker controls, ViaComp cell health controls, FlowCytes and ScatterBridge calibration controls,
  SpectraComp compensation and unmixing controls, QuantCytes quantitation controls and StimCytes functional controls. The
  company sells direct through a Shopify-backed storefront and publishes an unusually complete agent-facing surface for a
  life-sciences vendor: an llms.txt, an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog naming its Shopify Storefront GraphQL and Sanity
  Content Lake GROQ endpoints, content negotiation that serves markdown twins of every canonical page to agents that send
  Accept: text/markdown, and a live Shopify Storefront MCP server.'
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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.slingshotbio.com/favicon.ico
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/slingshot-biosciences/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-05'
modified: '2026-08-05'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Life Sciences
- Flow Cytometry
- Laboratory
- Synthetic Biology
- Diagnostics
- Cell Therapy
- E-Commerce
- GraphQL
- MCP
apis:
- name: Slingshot Bio Storefront GraphQL API
  description: The Shopify Storefront GraphQL API for the Slingshot Bio online store, declared by the company in its own /.well-known/api-catalog.
    Serves products, collections, cart and checkout operations for the cell mimic catalog. Introspection is open anonymously;
    the schema carries 428 types, 35 query fields and 40 mutations.
  humanURL: https://www.slingshotbio.com/collections
  baseURL: https://slingshot-bio.myshopify.com/api/2026-07/graphql.json
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - E-Commerce
  - Product
  - Cart
  tags_raw:
  - GraphQL
  - E-Commerce
  - Products
  - Cart
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/slingshot-biosciences-storefront.graphql
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront
- name: Slingshot Bio Content Lake GROQ API
  description: The Sanity Content Lake GROQ query API for the Slingshot Bio editorial surface — pages, resources, blog posts,
    press releases, product sheets and webinars — declared by the company in its own /.well-known/api-catalog. The production
    dataset answers anonymous GROQ queries over HTTPS GET.
  humanURL: https://www.slingshotbio.com/resources/blog
  baseURL: https://9l0m1rv5.api.sanity.io/v2025-08-29/data/query/production
  tags:
  - Content
  - CMS
  - GROQ
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.sanity.io/docs/http-query
- name: Slingshot Bio Storefront MCP Server
  description: 'A live Model Context Protocol server for the Slingshot Bio store, answering anonymous tools/list over HTTP
    JSON-RPC with five tools: search_catalog, get_product_details, get_cart, update_cart and search_shop_policies_and_faqs.
    Customer-scoped operations are protected by the OAuth 2.0 authorization server advertised at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.'
  humanURL: https://www.slingshotbio.com/
  baseURL: https://slingshot-bio.myshopify.com/api/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - E-Commerce
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/slingshot-biosciences-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/slingshot-biosciences-tool-crosswalk.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/resources/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/contact
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/collections/catalog-products
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/request-a-quote-for-cell-mimics
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/privacy-policy
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/slingshot-biosciences-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/slingshot-biosciences-api-catalog.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/slingshot-biosciences-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/slingshot-biosciences-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/slingshot-biosciences-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/slingshot-biosciences-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/slingshot-biosciences-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/slingshot-biosciences-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/slingshot-biosciences-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/slingshot-biosciences-problem-types.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/slingshot-biosciences-domain-security.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: null
  detail: Contract discovery beat the JS-rendered site. The company publishes an llms.txt, an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog
    naming two live APIs, markdown twins under Accept content negotiation, an anonymously introspectable Storefront GraphQL
    schema and an anonymous MCP tools/list.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 200
  - url: https://slingshot-bio.myshopify.com/api/mcp
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-05'

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