uScoop

uScoop appears in the 500 Global portfolio mapped to the website tnuck.com. The original uScoop was a 2010 college-student daily-deals startup (theuscoop.com, later uscoop.com); both domains are now offline or parked for sale, and the recorded website today is the Tuckernuck online retail storefront on Shopify. This profile documents the live API and agent surface of that recorded website, which publishes llms.txt and agents.md agent instructions, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile, a live MCP shopping endpoint, and OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 discovery documents for customer accounts.

uScoop publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, Fashion, eCommerce, and Agentic Commerce.

uScoop’s developer surface includes documentation, authentication, support, engineering blog, and 11 more developer resources.

24.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyRetailFashioneCommerceAgentic CommerceShopping

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 24.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 1

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

Storefront Agent Commerce (UCP over MCP)

Universal Commerce Protocol shopping service exposed over MCP by the tnuck.com Shopify storefront - catalog search, cart, checkout, fulfillment, discounts, and orders, with buye...

MCP Servers 1

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

uscoop-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Uscoop Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Uscoop Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Uscoop Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: uscoop
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/uscoop.png
name: uScoop
description: uScoop appears in the 500 Global portfolio mapped to the website tnuck.com. The original uScoop was a 2010 college-student
  daily-deals startup (theuscoop.com, later uscoop.com); both domains are now offline or parked for sale, and the recorded
  website today is the Tuckernuck online retail storefront on Shopify. This profile documents the live API and agent surface
  of that recorded website, which publishes llms.txt and agents.md agent instructions, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)
  merchant profile, a live MCP shopping endpoint, and OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 discovery documents for customer accounts.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uscoop/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-identity-note: The 500 Global portfolio source pairs the name uScoop with https://tnuck.com (Tuckernuck). Probed 2026-07-21
  - uscoop.com redirects to a GoDaddy for-sale page (307) and theuscoop.com does not resolve; the uScoop-Tuckernuck relationship
  (rebrand vs source-data mismatch) is unconfirmed. All artifacts in this repo were fetched from tnuck.com, the website of
  record in the source data.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- Fashion
- eCommerce
- Agentic Commerce
- Shopping
apis:
- name: Storefront Agent Commerce (UCP over MCP)
  description: Universal Commerce Protocol shopping service exposed over MCP by the tnuck.com Shopify storefront - catalog
    search, cart, checkout, fulfillment, discounts, and orders, with buyer-approved payment. Discovery at /.well-known/ucp;
    agent instructions at /llms.txt and /agents.md.
  humanURL: https://tnuck.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://tnuck.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Commerce
  - MCP
  - UCP
  - Shopping
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tnuck.com/agents.md
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/uscoop-mcp.yml
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/uscoop-ucp.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://tnuck.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://tnuck.com/agents.md
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/uscoop-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/uscoop-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/uscoop-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/uscoop-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/uscoop-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/uscoop-conformance.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/uscoop-domain-security.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://tnuck.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://tnuck.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: Login
  url: https://tnuck.com/account
- type: Support
  url: https://tnuck.com/pages/contact-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://tnuck.com/blogs/news
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v1