Swift Navigation

Swift Navigation builds precise positioning technology for mass-market applications — automotive ADAS and autonomy, mobile handsets, robotics, drones, micromobility, fleet and asset tracking, GIS and construction. Its flagship service, Skylark, is a cloud-based GNSS corrections service that streams RTCM 3.x corrections over NTRIP from regional casters in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, correcting satellite clock, orbit and atmospheric errors to take positioning from several metres to a few centimetres. Skylark ships in three variants — Nx RTK (network RTK on virtual reference stations), Cx (PPP-RTK, continent-wide, ISO 26262:2018 certified by UL Solutions) and Dx (differential code corrections for handsets and IoT). Swift also publishes the Swift Binary Protocol (SBP), the open, machine-readable wire protocol for its Piksi and Duro GNSS receivers and its Starling positioning engine, along with generated client libraries in six languages, and it publishes the complete gRPC contract for its Sora location time-series service on the Buf Schema Registry.

Swift Navigation publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, GNSS, Precise Positioning, Location, and Corrections.

The Swift Navigation catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Swift Navigation’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, CLI, and 26 more developer resources.

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41.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 43/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

4 APIs

Company GNSSPrecise PositioningLocation Corrections RTKNTRIPRTCMAutomotive Geospatial IoT Robotics Protocols

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Composite quality — 41.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.0 / 20

Access Clarity 1.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Contract Governance 4.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

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 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: swift-navigation
name: Swift Navigation
description: Swift Navigation builds precise positioning technology for mass-market applications — automotive ADAS and autonomy,
  mobile handsets, robotics, drones, micromobility, fleet and asset tracking, GIS and construction. Its flagship service,
  Skylark, is a cloud-based GNSS corrections service that streams RTCM 3.x corrections over NTRIP from regional casters in
  North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, correcting satellite clock, orbit and atmospheric errors to take positioning from
  several metres to a few centimetres. Skylark ships in three variants — Nx RTK (network RTK on virtual reference stations),
  Cx (PPP-RTK, continent-wide, ISO 26262:2018 certified by UL Solutions) and Dx (differential code corrections for handsets
  and IoT). Swift also publishes the Swift Binary Protocol (SBP), the open, machine-readable wire protocol for its Piksi and
  Duro GNSS receivers and its Starling positioning engine, along with generated client libraries in six languages, and it
  publishes the complete gRPC contract for its Sora location time-series service on the Buf Schema Registry.
image: https://www.swiftnav.com/wp-content/uploads/SwiftNav-Social-Card.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/swift-navigation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-29'
modified: '2026-08-29'
tags:
- Company
- GNSS
- Precise Positioning
- Location
- Corrections
- RTK
- NTRIP
- RTCM
- Automotive
- Geospatial
- IoT
- Robotics
- Protocols
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-backed-by:
- lemnos-labs
apis:
- name: Skylark Precise Positioning Service
  description: Real-time GNSS corrections delivered as continuously-open NTRIP streams. A client opens an HTTP GET against
    a regional caster mountpoint with HTTP Basic credentials issued per device, and the caster writes RTCM 3.x correction
    frames until the connection closes, while the client pushes its own approximate position back as NMEA GGA. Each caster
    serves a keyless NTRIP sourcetable at "/" that enumerates every stream, its RTCM message numbers and its constellation
    set.
  humanURL: https://www.swiftnav.com/products/skylark
  baseURL: http://na.all-freq.skylark.swiftnav.com:2101
  tags:
  - GNSS
  - Corrections
  - NTRIP
  - RTCM
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.swiftnav.com/support/solutions/articles/44002519397-ntrip-client-configuration-for-skylark-corrections
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.swiftnav.com/skylark-quick-start-guide
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/swift-navigation-authentication.yml
  - type: StreamCatalog
    url: asyncapi/swift-navigation-skylark-ntrip-streams.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/swift-navigation-examples.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/swift-navigation-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/swift-navigation-rate-limits.yml
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://account.swiftnav.com/sign-up
- name: Swift Binary Protocol (SBP)
  description: The native binary protocol for Swift Navigation devices — Piksi and Duro GNSS receivers and the Starling positioning
    engine. 242 message types across 29 packages carry position, velocity, baseline and time solutions, raw observations and
    ephemerides, SSR corrections, integrity bounds, message signing, inertial and vehicle inputs, and device management. The
    machine-readable specification is published as YAML and every client library is generated from it, along with 225 JSON
    Schema documents for the JSON representation.
  humanURL: https://swift-nav.github.io/libsbp/
  baseURL: tcp://{device-host}:55556
  tags:
  - Protocol
  - GNSS
  - Binary
  - JSON-Schema
  tags_raw:
  - Protocol
  - GNSS
  - Binary
  - JSON Schema
  properties:
  - type: Specification
    url: spec/swift-navigation-sbp-spec.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/swift-navigation-json-schema.yml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/swift-nav/libsbp
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://swift-nav.github.io/libsbp/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/swift-navigation-changelog.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/swift-navigation-data-model.yml
- name: Sora API
  description: gRPC service for collecting, storing and analysing device location time series. DeviceService (5 RPCs) takes
    device state and events from the field; AppService (29 RPCs) queries and streams that data and manages projects, devices,
    layers, annotators, alertors and event generators. The complete contract is published as a public Buf Schema Registry
    module. The endpoint is no longer reachable — see lifecycle/ — but the contract remains public.
  humanURL: https://buf.build/swift-nav/sora-api
  baseURL: https://grpc.sora.swiftnav.com
  tags:
  - gRPC
  - Protobuf
  - Location
  - Time Series
  properties:
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/swift-navigation-sora-api.yml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/swift-nav/sora-device-client
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://buf.build/swift-nav/sora-api
- name: Swift Navigation Web Data Endpoints
  description: First-party, keyless JSON endpoints on the Swift Navigation website that power the Skylark User Portal and
    the receiver compatibility checker — the 134-entry third-party receiver compatibility catalog, per-country Skylark variant
    availability, the Skylark support FAQ, and site navigation. They are named in the portal's own public runtime configuration
    but are not otherwise documented or versioned consistently.
  humanURL: https://www.swiftnav.com/compatibility-checker
  baseURL: https://www.swiftnav.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - JSON
  - Catalog
  - Undocumented
  properties:
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/swift-navigation-examples.yml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/swift-navigation-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.swiftnav.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.swiftnav.com/support/solutions
- type: APIReference
  url: https://swift-nav.github.io/libsbp/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.swiftnav.com/get-started
- type: Support
  url: https://support.swiftnav.com/support/home
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.swiftnav.com/resource-library
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.swiftnav.com/feed
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/swift-nav
- type: SignUp
  url: https://account.swiftnav.com/sign-up
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.swiftnav.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.swiftnav.com/privacy-policy
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/swift-navigation-conformance.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/swift-navigation-conformance.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/swift-navigation-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/swift-navigation-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/swift-navigation-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/swift-navigation-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/swift-navigation-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/swift-navigation-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/swift-navigation-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/swift-navigation-changelog.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/swift-navigation-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/swift-navigation-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/swift-navigation-examples.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/swift-navigation-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/swift-navigation-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/swift-navigation-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/swift-navigation-scopes.yml
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/swift-navigation-sora-api.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/swift-navigation-json-schema.yml
- type: Specification
  url: spec/swift-navigation-sbp-spec.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-29'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 294
  pass: local-v1

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