# VA Lighthouse **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/va-gov/ **Website:** https://developer.va.gov **APIs profiled:** 35 VA Lighthouse is the US Department of Veterans Affairs' developer API platform. Published at developer.va.gov with production endpoints at api.va.gov, Lighthouse exposes 22+ APIs covering Benefits (claims, documents, reference data, intake), Health (HL7 FHIR R4 Patient Health and Clinical Health, Community Care Eligibility), Facilities, Forms, Veteran Verification and Confirmation, Appeals and Decision Reviews under the Appeals Modernization Act (AMA), Address Validation, Direct Deposit Management, VA Letter Generation, Education Benefits, and the full VA Home Loan Guaranty stack (Loan Guaranty, Loan Review, Guaranty Remittance, Health-Care-Costs Coverage). All authenticated APIs use OAuth 2.0 with both Authorization Code (Veteran consent) and Client Credentials (system) flows; the health APIs additionally support SMART-on-FHIR. The platform is operated by the VA Office of the CTO with open-source backend code in github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-api and reference clients in vets-api-clients. ## Kin Score — 42.0 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-1.9 from 43.9). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 50.0 | | Contract Quality | 66.7 | | Governance | 0.0 | | Contract Governance | 0.0 | | Operational Transparency | 18.4 | | Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 | | Commercial Clarity | 23.7 | | Access Clarity | 23.7 | Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 68.5 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | no | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium). ## APIs (35) - **Decision Reviews API** — Composite of the three AMA decision-review filing endpoints — Higher-Level Review (HLR), Supplemental Claim (SC), and Notice of Disagreement (Board Appeal / NOD) — for submittin... - **Education Benefits API** — School Certifying Officials (SCOs) and education benefit administrators read and submit GI Bill / Post-9/11 education benefit enrollment data — VA Form 22-1999 enrollment certif... - **Loan Guaranty API** — Provides lenders and servicers the digital surface for the VA Home Loan Guaranty program — eligibility, appraisals, loan setup, and certificate-of-eligibility (COE) operations. ... - **Guaranty Remittance API** — Lets VA Loan Guaranty servicers remit funding-fee, late, and other Loan Guaranty payments to VA electronically instead of through legacy paper-based remittance. Client credentia... - **Health Care Costs Coverage API** — Insurance-coordination API for VA's Consolidated Patient Account Center (CPAC) — submit and update third-party health insurance coverage on a Veteran's record so VA can correctl... - **VA Lighthouse 5103 Waiver API** — Allows authenticated and authorized users to file a 5103 Notice Response on a claim. - **VA Lighthouse ACA Coverage API** — The ACA Coverage API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for aca coverage. - **VA Lighthouse AddressValidation-v3 API** — Address Standardization and Validation endpoints - **VA Lighthouse Appealable Issues API** — The Appealable Issues API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for appealable issues. - **VA Lighthouse Appeals Status API** — Caseflow appeals status API - **VA Lighthouse Claims API** — Allows authenticated and authorized users to access claims data for a single claim by ID, or for all claims based on claimant data. No data is returned if the user is not authen... - **VA Lighthouse DirectDeposit API** — The DirectDeposit API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for directdeposit. - **VA Lighthouse Disability API** — Used for 526 claims. - **VA Lighthouse Disability Compensation Claims API** — Allows authenticated and authorized users to automatically establish a Disability Compensation Claim (21-526EZ) in VBMS - **VA Lighthouse Disability Rating API** — The Disability Rating API from VA Lighthouse — 4 operation(s) for disability rating. - **VA Lighthouse Documents Service API** — The Documents Service API from VA Lighthouse — 9 operation(s) for documents service. - **VA Lighthouse Enrolled Benefits API** — The Enrolled Benefits API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for enrolled benefits. - **VA Lighthouse facilities API** — VA Facilities API - **VA Lighthouse Flashes API** — The Flashes API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for flashes. - **VA Lighthouse Forms API** — The Forms API from VA Lighthouse — 2 operation(s) for forms. - **VA Lighthouse Intent to File API** — Used for 0966 submissions. - **VA Lighthouse JWS Validation API** — The JWS Validation API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for jws validation. - **VA Lighthouse Legacy Appeals API** — The Legacy Appeals API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for legacy appeals. - **VA Lighthouse Letters API** — The Letters API from VA Lighthouse — 3 operation(s) for letters. - **VA Lighthouse loanReviewPublic API** — Loan Review Public Resource - **VA Lighthouse Path API** — The Path API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for path. - **VA Lighthouse Permanent And Total Disability API** — The Permanent And Total Disability API from VA Lighthouse — 2 operation(s) for permanent and total disability. - **VA Lighthouse Power of Attorney API** — Used for 21-22 and 21-22a form submissions. - **VA Lighthouse Reference Data API** — The Reference Data API from VA Lighthouse — 9 operation(s) for reference data. - **VA Lighthouse Search API** — The Search API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for search. - **VA Lighthouse Service History API** — The Service History API from VA Lighthouse — 1 operation(s) for service history. - **VA Lighthouse Status API** — The Status API from VA Lighthouse — 2 operation(s) for status. - **VA Lighthouse Uploads API** — The Uploads API from VA Lighthouse — 5 operation(s) for uploads. - **VA Lighthouse veteran_confirmation_status API** — Veteran Confirmation - Veteran Status - **VA Lighthouse Veteran Verification API** — The Veteran Verification API from VA Lighthouse — 3 operation(s) for veteran verification. ## Agentic access (1) - **Va Gov Agentic Access** — 116 operations · 53 acting ## Security (3) - **Va Gov Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2 · 6 schemes - **Va Gov Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC - **Va Gov Vulnerability Disclosure** — Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published ## Tags Government, Veterans Affairs, Veterans, Healthcare, Benefits, FHIR, Open Data, Federal --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/va-gov/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.