# Vestaron

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vestaron/  
**Website:** https://vestaron.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Vestaron is an agricultural biotechnology company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that develops peptide-based bioinsecticides derived from the venom of spiders and other venomous species. Its peptides deliver insecticidal modes of action that had never before been used for insect control — SPEAR, the first commercialised active ingredient, introduced IRAC Group 32, the first new neuromuscular mode of action since the diamides — and are effective on lepidopteran and sucking pests while remaining gentle on pollinators and beneficial insects. The commercial portfolio is SPEAR LEP, SPEAR RC, SPEAR T, BASIN FLEX, LEPROTEC and LEPROTEC WG, manufactured in partnership with ADM. The company has won the Crop Science Award and an EPA Green Chemistry Challenge award, and in 2024 became the first agriculture and food company inducted into the Global CleanTech 100 Hall of Fame. Vestaron publishes no developer program, no product API and no API documentation. The only machine-readable surfaces on vestaron.com are the WordPress REST content API (wp/v2), which is anonymously readable and serves the corporate newsroom, product and company pages and media library, and an OAuth-gated Model Context Protocol endpoint advertised through RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 metadata.

## Kin Score — 27.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 14.6 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 25.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 52.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 44.6 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | yes |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (10)

- **Vestaron MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter)** — A remote Model Context Protocol server published on the vestaron.com host and advertised anonymously through RFC 8414 OAuth authorization-server metadata and RFC 9728 protected-...
- **Vestaron Comments API** — The Comments API from Vestaron — 2 operation(s) for comments.
- **Vestaron Discovery API** — The Discovery API from Vestaron — 5 operation(s) for discovery.
- **Vestaron Media API** — The Media API from Vestaron — 4 operation(s) for media.
- **Vestaron Pages API** — The Pages API from Vestaron — 6 operation(s) for pages.
- **Vestaron Posts API** — The Posts API from Vestaron — 6 operation(s) for posts.
- **Vestaron Search API** — The Search API from Vestaron — 1 operation(s) for search.
- **Vestaron Settings API** — The Settings API from Vestaron — 1 operation(s) for settings.
- **Vestaron Taxonomy API** — The Taxonomy API from Vestaron — 6 operation(s) for taxonomy.
- **Vestaron Users API** — The Users API from Vestaron — 6 operation(s) for users.

## MCP servers (1)

- **vestaron-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Vestaron Agentic Access** — 89 operations · 54 acting

## Security (2)

- **Vestaron Authentication** — none/http/oauth2 · 3 schemes
- **Vestaron Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology, Crop Protection, Bioinsecticides, Peptides, Biologicals, Sustainability, Pollinator Safety, Life Sciences, Content

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/vestaron/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.