Starfish Space

Starfish Space is a satellite-servicing company founded in 2019 by Trevor Bennett and Austin Link and headquartered in the Seattle, Washington area (Tukwila). It builds Otter, a small, low-cost, electrically propelled servicing vehicle that performs autonomous rendezvous, proximity operations and docking (RPOD) with satellites that were never designed to be serviced — extending their life, relocating them, or disposing of them at end of mission. Its Otter Pup demonstration missions target the first-ever commercial satellite docking in low Earth orbit, and the company has been awarded a $54.5M U.S. Space Force contract for a dedicated Otter servicing vehicle. Starfish Space publishes no developer product API; the machine-readable surface catalogued here is the public WordPress REST API and the OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol (MCP) server served from starfishspace.com.

Starfish Space is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Aerospace, Space, Satellite, and Satellite Servicing.

The Starfish Space catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Starfish Space’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, support, and 22 more developer resources.

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19.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 10/100 dormant Full breakdown ↓
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2 APIs 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Aerospace Space SatelliteSatellite ServicingSpacecraftSpace RoboticsDefense Content Management MCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 19.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 17

Access Clarity 2.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 0 / 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 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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 Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
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Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented) Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Contract Quality scores 1.7 — up to +24.6 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 12.8 — up to +17.4 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 30.4 — up to +13.9 composite points Ask about this →

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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
Space and Satellite (operators, earth observation, ground segment)	undeclared	-	-	-

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 (platform)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

Starfish Space MCP Server

A live Model Context Protocol (MCP) server exposed by Starfish Space at https://www.starfishspace.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server, served through the WordPress MCP adapter. Acc...

Starfish Space Website (WordPress REST)

The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Starfish Space website at www.starfishspace.com: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as one site s...

Open Collections 1

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

Starfish Space MCP Server

Starfish Space serves a live Model Context Protocol server from its own host, via the WordPress MCP adapter. The MCP namespace, the OAuth 2.1 authorization-server metadata and t...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

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

Connect to the Starfish Space MCP server

AGENT SKILL

Inventory Starfish Space site content and media

AGENT SKILL

Read Starfish Space news and press releases

AGENT SKILL

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Starfish Space

16 quoted statements, read from Starfish Space's own page on 2026-11-10.

PRIVACY

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Starfish Space API Rules

65 rules · 57 error-severity 7 warn-severity 1 info-severity

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.

Starfish Space Wordpress Certification Overlay

22 actions · update · starfish-space-wordpress-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Starfish Space Wordpress Overlay

4 actions · update · starfish-space-wordpress-openapi.yml

DERIVED

JSON Schema 10

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

comment

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

attachment

33 properties

JSON SCHEMA

page

26 properties

JSON SCHEMA

search-result

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

status

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

tag

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

taxonomy

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

type

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

user

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Security Posture 2

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

Starfish Space Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Starfish Space Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Starfish Space Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Starfish Space Agentic Access

225 operations · 124 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

WellKnown

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 7

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

BlogRSS

About

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

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Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Products

Products

Overlay

Overlay

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: starfish-space
name: Starfish Space
description: Starfish Space is a satellite-servicing company founded in 2019 by Trevor Bennett and Austin Link and headquartered
  in the Seattle, Washington area (Tukwila). It builds Otter, a small, low-cost, electrically propelled servicing vehicle
  that performs autonomous rendezvous, proximity operations and docking (RPOD) with satellites that were never designed to
  be serviced — extending their life, relocating them, or disposing of them at end of mission. Its Otter Pup demonstration
  missions target the first-ever commercial satellite docking in low Earth orbit, and the company has been awarded a $54.5M
  U.S. Space Force contract for a dedicated Otter servicing vehicle. Starfish Space publishes no developer product API; the
  machine-readable surface catalogued here is the public WordPress REST API and the OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol
  (MCP) server served from starfishspace.com.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://www.starfishspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/starfishspace-logo-fullcolor.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/starfish-space/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 33
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Aerospace
- Space
- Satellite
- Satellite Servicing
- Spacecraft
- Space Robotics
- Defense
- Content Management
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Aerospace
- Space
- Satellites
- Satellite Servicing
- Spacecraft
- Space Robotics
- Defense
- Content Management
- Model Context Protocol
apis:
- name: Starfish Space MCP Server
  description: 'A live Model Context Protocol (MCP) server exposed by Starfish Space at https://www.starfishspace.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server,
    served through the WordPress MCP adapter. Access is OAuth 2.1 protected: the site publishes RFC 8414 authorization-server
    metadata and RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata with a single `mcp` scope and PKCE (S256). Anonymous initialize / tools/list
    calls return HTTP 401 mcp_unauthorized, so the live tool inventory could not be introspected without credentials.'
  humanURL: https://www.starfishspace.com/
  baseURL: https://www.starfishspace.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Model Context Protocol
  - Agents
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/starfish-space-mcp.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/starfish-space-scopes.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: mcp-plugin
- aid: starfish-space:starfishspace-com-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Starfish Space Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Starfish Space website at www.starfishspace.com: the route
    index of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://www.starfishspace.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.starfishspace.com/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/starfish-space-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/starfish-space-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/starfish-space-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.starfishspace.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.starfishspace.com/news/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.starfishspace.com/feed/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.starfishspace.com/contact/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.starfishspace.com/privacy-policy/
- type: About
  url: https://www.starfishspace.com/company/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.starfishspace.com/careers/
- type: Products
  url: https://www.starfishspace.com/the-otter/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/starfish-space/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/StarfishSpace/
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/starfish-space-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/starfish-space-well-known.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/starfish-space-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/starfish-space-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/starfish-space-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/starfish-space-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/starfish-space-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/starfish-space-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/starfish-space-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/starfish-space-wordpress-overlay.yaml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/starfish-space-privacy-policy.yml

Starfish Space API — frequently asked questions

Does Starfish Space have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Starfish Space, including Starfish Space MCP Server and Starfish Space Website (WordPress REST).

How do I authenticate with the Starfish Space API?

Starfish Space documents its authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Starfish Space Authentication.

Does Starfish Space have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Starfish Space: Starfish Space serves a live Model Context Protocol server from its own host, via the WordPress MCP adapter. The MCP namespace, the OAuth 2.1 authorization-server metadata and the protected-resource m

Is the Starfish Space API ready for AI agents?

Starfish Space has a Kin Score of 19.3 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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