The Lafz

Lafz is a halal-certified cosmetics and personal-care brand, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Singapore as part of the Believe PTE FMCG group. It sells hair care, skin care, makeup, a caffeine range, deodorants and fragrance made without alcohol, parabens or animal by-products. The direct-to-consumer storefront at lafz.com runs on Shopify and exposes real agent-facing surfaces: a Shopify customer-account OpenID Connect provider, an /llms.txt agent guide, and a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) shopping MCP server for buyer-approved agent-driven checkout. thelafz.com is the corporate "halal compliant factories" site. Added to the API Evangelist network as an Accel portfolio-graph lead and enriched from its live public surfaces.

The Lafz is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Cosmetics, Personal Care, and E-Commerce.

The Lafz’s developer surface includes authentication, support, engineering blog, and 11 more developer resources.

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16.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 8/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

Company Consumer Cosmetics Personal Care E-CommerceHalalShopify Agentic Commerce

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 16.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 8/100 · 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 5 / 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.

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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)

9 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
Developer Ergonomics scores 20.8 — up to +15.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

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)

APIs 1

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

Lafz Storefront (Shopify UCP)

The Lafz direct-to-consumer storefront on Shopify, with an agent-commerce surface over the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) MCP server plus read-only product/collection JSON en...

MCP Servers 1

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

Lafz Shopping MCP (Shopify UCP)

Hosted Model Context Protocol server exposing the Lafz storefront as agent-callable shopping tools via the Universal Commerce Protocol (ucp.dev). Buyer approval is required to c...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

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

lafz-shop

AGENT SKILL

Security Posture 2

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

The Lafz Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

The Lafz Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

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

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Store

Store

Source (apis.yml)

x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v1
aid: the-lafz
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/the-lafz.png
name: The Lafz
description: 'Lafz is a halal-certified cosmetics and personal-care brand, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Singapore
  as part of the Believe PTE FMCG group. It sells hair care, skin care, makeup, a caffeine range, deodorants and fragrance
  made without alcohol, parabens or animal by-products. The direct-to-consumer storefront at lafz.com runs on Shopify and
  exposes real agent-facing surfaces: a Shopify customer-account OpenID Connect provider, an /llms.txt agent guide, and a
  Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) shopping MCP server for buyer-approved agent-driven checkout. thelafz.com is the corporate
  "halal compliant factories" site. Added to the API Evangelist network as an Accel portfolio-graph lead and enriched from
  its live public surfaces.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-lafz/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Cosmetics
- Personal Care
- E-Commerce
- Halal
- Shopify
- Agentic Commerce
tags_raw:
- Company
- Consumer
- Cosmetics
- Personal Care
- E-Commerce
- Halal
- Shopify
- Agent Commerce
apis:
- name: Lafz Storefront (Shopify UCP)
  description: The Lafz direct-to-consumer storefront on Shopify, with an agent-commerce surface over the Universal Commerce
    Protocol (UCP) MCP server plus read-only product/collection JSON endpoints and Shopify customer-account OIDC.
  humanURL: https://lafz.com
  baseURL: https://lafz.com
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/the-lafz-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/the-lafz-llms.txt
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/the-lafz-well-known.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/the-lafz-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/the-lafz-conventions.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/the-lafz-conformance.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://thelafz.com
- type: Store
  url: https://lafz.com
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/the-lafz-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/the-lafz-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/the-lafz-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/the-lafz-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/the-lafz-domain-security.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/the-lafz-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/the-lafz-conformance.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://lafz.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://lafz.com/pages/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://lafz.com/blogs/news
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-lafz
x-lifecycle:
  state: shuttered
  reason: domain-does-not-resolve
  observed: '2026-09-27'
  detail: The company's own domain returned no A or AAAA record when probed. This is an observation about the domain, not
    a request from the company.
  indexed: false

The Lafz API — frequently asked questions

Does The Lafz have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from The Lafz, including Lafz Storefront (Shopify UCP).

How do I authenticate with the The Lafz API?

The Lafz uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as The Lafz Authentication.

Does The Lafz have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for The Lafz: Hosted Model Context Protocol server exposing the Lafz storefront as agent-callable shopping tools via the Universal Commerce Protocol (ucp.dev). Buyer approval is required to complete any payment.

Is the The Lafz API ready for AI agents?

The Lafz has a Kin Score of 16.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 7.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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