Tecovas

Tecovas is an Austin, Texas direct-to-consumer Western wear brand selling handcrafted cowboy boots, work boots, hats, leather goods and apparel for men, women and kids, made by artisans in Leon, Mexico and sold online and through its own US retail stores. Its storefront runs on Shopify Hydrogen (React Router 7) with Sanity content and Algolia search, and it publishes an unusually complete agent-facing surface for a retailer: an llms.txt, an agents.md, an RFC 9727 api-catalog linkset of read-only JSON endpoints, a Cloudflare-style agent-skills discovery index, an anonymously introspectable Shopify Storefront GraphQL API, and a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) MCP endpoint on its Shopify checkout host for agent-driven cart and checkout.

Tecovas is listed with 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Apparel, and Footwear.

Tecovas’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 20 more developer resources.

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30.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 42/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Retail E-Commerce Apparel Footwear Direct to Consumer Shopify Agentic Commerce Universal Commerce Protocol Product Catalog

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 30.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 2.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.3 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 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 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 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 5 / 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):

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)
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)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

2 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 10.4 — up to +22.4 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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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
Fashion & Apparel (apparel, footwear, textiles)	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 4

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.

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (shopify)

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 3

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

Tecovas Storefront Content API

Read-only JSON endpoints on the Tecovas storefront host, published in the company's own RFC 9727 api-catalog linkset and documented in its agents.md. Covers product detail by sl...

Tecovas Storefront GraphQL API

The Shopify Storefront GraphQL API as deployed on the Tecovas checkout host. Anonymous introspection succeeds (424 types, 35 query fields, 41 mutations), covering products, coll...

Tecovas Agentic Commerce (UCP/MCP)

Tecovas implements the Universal Commerce Protocol 2026-04-08 on its Shopify checkout host, exposing an MCP endpoint whose tools/list returns 13 tools with full JSON Schema inpu...

MCP Servers 1

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

Tecovas MCP Server

Remote MCP server at checkout.tecovas.com over HTTP; 13 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Tecovas Authentication

none/oauth2/openIdConnect · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Tecovas Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Tecovas Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Tecovas Agentic Access

17 operations · 9 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

17 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

GraphQL

GraphQL

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgentSkill

MCPServer

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conformance

Lifecycle

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

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 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

APICatalog

APICatalog

ContentSignal

ContentSignal

SecondaryMarket

SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tecovas
name: Tecovas
description: 'Tecovas is an Austin, Texas direct-to-consumer Western wear brand selling handcrafted cowboy boots, work boots,
  hats, leather goods and apparel for men, women and kids, made by artisans in Leon, Mexico and sold online and through its
  own US retail stores. Its storefront runs on Shopify Hydrogen (React Router 7) with Sanity content and Algolia search, and
  it publishes an unusually complete agent-facing surface for a retailer: an llms.txt, an agents.md, an RFC 9727 api-catalog
  linkset of read-only JSON endpoints, a Cloudflare-style agent-skills discovery index, an anonymously introspectable Shopify
  Storefront GraphQL API, and a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) MCP endpoint on its Shopify checkout host for agent-driven
  cart and checkout.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tecovas/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.sanity.io/images/v8kybopt/production/073bf9cd1134041e2c334a569e22504347e336eb-8108x5289.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&w=1200
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-05'
modified: '2026-08-05'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Apparel
- Footwear
- Direct to Consumer
- Shopify
- Agentic Commerce
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- Product Catalog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: tecovas:tecovas-storefront-content-api
  name: Tecovas Storefront Content API
  description: Read-only JSON endpoints on the Tecovas storefront host, published in the company's own RFC 9727 api-catalog
    linkset and documented in its agents.md. Covers product detail by slug, collection metadata, Algolia-backed collection
    products and free-text search, and site-wide search settings. No authentication is required.
  humanURL: https://www.tecovas.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://www.tecovas.com/api
  tags:
  - Product
  - Collection
  - Search
  - Catalog
  tags_raw:
  - Products
  - Collections
  - Search
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.tecovas.com/agents.md
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.tecovas.com/.well-known/api-catalog
  - type: APICatalog
    url: well-known/tecovas-api-catalog.json
- aid: tecovas:tecovas-storefront-graphql-api
  name: Tecovas Storefront GraphQL API
  description: The Shopify Storefront GraphQL API as deployed on the Tecovas checkout host. Anonymous introspection succeeds
    (424 types, 35 query fields, 41 mutations), covering products, collections, carts, blogs, menus, metaobjects, localization
    and search. Not listed in the company's own api-catalog, but reachable without credentials.
  humanURL: https://checkout.tecovas.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://checkout.tecovas.com/api/2026-01/graphql.json
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Product
  - Cart
  - Shopify
  tags_raw:
  - GraphQL
  - Products
  - Cart
  - Shopify
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/tecovas-storefront.graphql
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://checkout.tecovas.com/agents.md
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: storefront-graphql
- aid: tecovas:tecovas-ucp-agentic-commerce
  name: Tecovas Agentic Commerce (UCP/MCP)
  description: Tecovas implements the Universal Commerce Protocol 2026-04-08 on its Shopify checkout host, exposing an MCP
    endpoint whose tools/list returns 13 tools with full JSON Schema inputs for catalog search and lookup, cart lifecycle,
    checkout lifecycle and order retrieval. Payment handlers advertised are Google Pay, Shopify card and Shop Pay. Checkout
    completion requires explicit contemporaneous human approval per the published agent instructions.
  humanURL: https://checkout.tecovas.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://checkout.tecovas.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agentic Commerce
  - Checkout
  - Cart
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - Agentic Commerce
  - Checkout
  - Cart
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/tecovas-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/tecovas-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://checkout.tecovas.com/agents.md
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tecovas.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.tecovas.com/agents.md
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.tecovas.com/.well-known/api-catalog
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.tecovas.com/agents.md#typical-agent-flow
- type: Support
  url: https://www.tecovas.com/help-center
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.tecovas.com/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.tecovas.com/p/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.tecovas.com/p/terms-and-conditions
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/tecovas-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/tecovas-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/tecovas-api-catalog.json
- type: ContentSignal
  url: well-known/tecovas-robots.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/tecovas-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/tecovas-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: GraphQL
  url: graphql/tecovas-storefront.graphql
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tecovas-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/tecovas-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/tecovas-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tecovas-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/tecovas-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tecovas-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tecovas-agentic-access.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/tecovas-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/tecovas-problem-types.yml
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/tecovas_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 28
  pass: local-v1

Tecovas API — frequently asked questions

Does Tecovas have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Tecovas, including Tecovas Storefront Content API, Tecovas Storefront GraphQL API and Tecovas Agentic Commerce (UCP/MCP).

How do I authenticate with the Tecovas API?

Tecovas documents its authentication (none/oauth2/openIdConnect · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tecovas Authentication.

Does Tecovas have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Tecovas: Remote MCP server at checkout.tecovas.com over HTTP; 13 tools listed.

Is the Tecovas API ready for AI agents?

Tecovas has a Kin Score of 30.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 41.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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