Specific

Specific is an infrastructure-as-code platform built for coding agents, positioned as "AWS for coding agents." Any coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) defines its whole system in a single specific.hcl file — services, managed Postgres, S3-compatible object storage, Redis, real-time Postgres sync (powered by Electric), Temporal workflows, crons, secrets, volumes, custom domains, preview environments and environments — then runs it locally with `specific dev` and ships it to production with `specific deploy`. Everything is reached through the Specific CLI and a hosted docs MCP server rather than proprietary SDKs, so agents can build backends from natural-language prompts and deploy production infrastructure in minutes.

Specific is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Platform-as-a-Service, and Backend-as-a-Service.

Specific’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, changelog, CLI, and 15 more developer resources.

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24.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 10/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 97/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 API 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

Company Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code Platform-as-a-Service Backend-as-a-Service Coding Agents Deployment PostgreSQL Developer Tools Cloud CLI MCP

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 24.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 10/100 · 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 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 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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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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/specific/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/specific to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

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
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	undeclared	-	-	2

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 3

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 (documented)

The S3 Interface

prose — states compatibility; nothing published to check it against

8 core of 116 operations graded · api-commons/storage

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

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

Specific Platform

The Specific control plane and CLI that builds, deploys and runs agent-defined infrastructure from a single specific.hcl file, spanning local development and production on Speci...

MCP Servers 1

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

Specific MCP Server

Official hosted MCP server that lets coding agents search and read the Specific documentation directly. Install commands are published for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and VS Code.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

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

specific

AGENT SKILL

Security Posture 2

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

Specific Authentication

oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Specific Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: specific
name: Specific
description: Specific is an infrastructure-as-code platform built for coding agents, positioned as "AWS for coding agents."
  Any coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) defines its whole system in a single specific.hcl file — services, managed
  Postgres, S3-compatible object storage, Redis, real-time Postgres sync (powered by Electric), Temporal workflows, crons,
  secrets, volumes, custom domains, preview environments and environments — then runs it locally with `specific dev` and ships
  it to production with `specific deploy`. Everything is reached through the Specific CLI and a hosted docs MCP server rather
  than proprietary SDKs, so agents can build backends from natural-language prompts and deploy production infrastructure in
  minutes.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/specific/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
image: https://specific.dev/opengraph-image?2b9073564a4e0222
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure as Code
- Platform-as-a-Service
- Backend-as-a-Service
- Coding Agents
- Deployment
- PostgreSQL
- Developer Tools
- Cloud
- CLI
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure as Code
- Platform as a Service
- Backend as a Service
- Coding Agents
- Deployment
- PostgreSQL
- Developer Tools
- Cloud
- CLI
- MCP
apis:
- name: Specific Platform
  description: The Specific control plane and CLI that builds, deploys and runs agent-defined infrastructure from a single
    specific.hcl file, spanning local development and production on Specific Cloud.
  humanURL: https://docs.specific.dev
  baseURL: https://api.specific.dev
  tags:
  - Infrastructure as Code
  - Deployment
  - PostgreSQL
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.specific.dev
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.specific.dev/quickstart
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v1
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://specific.dev
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.specific.dev
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.specific.dev
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.specific.dev/quickstart
- type: Blog
  url: https://specific.dev/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://specific.dev/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://dashboard.specific.dev
- type: Login
  url: https://dashboard.specific.dev
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/specific-dev
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://specific.dev/changelog
- type: Packages
  url: packages/specific-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/specific-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/specific-cli.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/specific-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/specific-llms.txt
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/specific-changelog.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/specific-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/specific-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/specific-lifecycle.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/specific-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/specific-domain-security.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml

Specific API — frequently asked questions

Does Specific have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Specific, including Specific Platform.

How do I authenticate with the Specific API?

Specific uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Specific Authentication.

Does Specific have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Specific: Official hosted MCP server that lets coding agents search and read the Specific documentation directly. Install commands are published for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and VS Code.

Is the Specific API ready for AI agents?

Specific has a Kin Score of 24.5 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 9.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

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