Standout

Standout (standout.work) is an AI talent agent for tech professionals in the United States. Candidates run a CLI (`npx standout`) that assesses how they think, build, and debug to create a living, verified profile of capability rather than a resume. Standout matches candidates to hiring companies and brokers a direct introduction to the founder when a match looks right — no applications and no recruiter middle layer. It is free for candidates; companies pay only on a successful hire. Backed by Y Combinator.

Standout is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Hiring, Recruiting, Talent, and Jobs.

Standout’s developer surface includes engineering blog, CLI, and 7 more developer resources.

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13.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 13.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Standout
description: Standout (standout.work) is an AI talent agent for tech professionals in the United States. Candidates run a
  CLI (`npx standout`) that assesses how they think, build, and debug to create a living, verified profile of capability rather
  than a resume. Standout matches candidates to hiring companies and brokers a direct introduction to the founder when a match
  looks right — no applications and no recruiter middle layer. It is free for candidates; companies pay only on a successful
  hire. Backed by Y Combinator.
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