Zulily

Zulily is an online retailer of daily deals on apparel, home, toys, and lifestyle goods. After its 2023 shutdown the brand was acquired and relaunched as a Shopify-hosted store. The relaunched storefront is agent-native: it implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) with a JSON-RPC MCP shopping endpoint, exposes OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 authentication via the Shopify Customer Account API (including a customer-account-mcp-api scope), and publishes an llms.txt / agents.md describing how AI shopping agents can discover products and run buyer-approved checkouts. This profile was surfaced as an a16z / Trinity Ventures portfolio company and enriched from Zulily's real public agent-commerce surface.

Zulily publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Ecommerce, Retail, Shopping, and Commerce.

Zulily’s developer surface includes authentication and 12 more developer resources.

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18.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyEcommerceRetailShoppingCommerceAgent CommerceUniversal Commerce ProtocolMCPShopify

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 18.7/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 33/100 · 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 3 / 3
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APIs 2

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

Zulily UCP Shopping (MCP)

Zulily's agent-facing commerce API implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) over a JSON-RPC MCP endpoint — search the catalog, build a cart, and run a buyer-approved c...

Zulily Customer Account API (Shopify)

OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 authentication and customer-account access for Zulily shoppers, provided by the Shopify Customer Account API, including an MCP-scoped agent surface.

MCP Servers 1

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

zulily-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 1

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

Zulily Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Zulily Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 Conventions
Conventions

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: zulily
name: Zulily
description: 'Zulily is an online retailer of daily deals on apparel, home, toys, and lifestyle goods. After its 2023 shutdown
  the brand was acquired and relaunched as a Shopify-hosted store. The relaunched storefront is agent-native: it implements
  the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) with a JSON-RPC MCP shopping endpoint, exposes OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 authentication
  via the Shopify Customer Account API (including a customer-account-mcp-api scope), and publishes an llms.txt / agents.md
  describing how AI shopping agents can discover products and run buyer-approved checkouts. This profile was surfaced as an
  a16z / Trinity Ventures portfolio company and enriched from Zulily''s real public agent-commerce surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zulily/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- trinity-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
image: https://www.zulily.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Ecommerce
- Retail
- Shopping
- Commerce
- Agent Commerce
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- MCP
- Shopify
apis:
- name: Zulily UCP Shopping (MCP)
  description: Zulily's agent-facing commerce API implementing the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) over a JSON-RPC MCP endpoint
    — search the catalog, build a cart, and run a buyer-approved checkout.
  humanURL: https://www.zulily.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://www.zulily.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Commerce
  - MCP
  - UCP
  - Agent Commerce
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/zulily-mcp.yml
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/zulily-well-known.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
- name: Zulily Customer Account API (Shopify)
  description: OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 authentication and customer-account access for Zulily shoppers, provided by the
    Shopify Customer Account API, including an MCP-scoped agent surface.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/customer
  baseURL: https://account.zulily.com/authentication
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - OAuth
  - OpenID Connect
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/zulily-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/zulily-scopes.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.zulily.com
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/zulily-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/zulily-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: llms/zulily-agents.md
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/zulily-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/zulily-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/zulily-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/zulily-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/zulily-conventions.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zulily-domain-security.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.zulily.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.zulily.com/policies/terms-of-service
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io