Automattic is profiled on APIs.io from a single APIs.json file, apis.yml. Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Gravatar, Akismet, WordPress VIP, Pocket Casts, Day One, Beeper and Simplenote. The file indexes 385 APIs and 56 common properties. 64 Kin Score checks read this file, and it earns 173.8 of their 267 points. Automattic scored 54.5 (strong) on 2026-10-30; the badge above is live and shows the current score.
What the file contains
- 16 tags: Company, Content Management, Publishing, Blogging, Website Hosting, Web Publishing, Content, Comments, Spam Filtering, Media, Analytics, Domains…
- Specification version: 0.23
- Created: 2026-07-31
- Modified: 2026-10-06
- Maintainers: 2 listed
Common properties (49 types) apply across every API in the file:
AgenticAccess · AgentSkill · APIReference · Authentication · Blog · BlogRSS · ChangeLog · CLI · Compliance · Components · Conformance · Console · Conventions · DataModel · DeveloperPortal · Documentation · DomainSecurity · ErrorCatalog · GettingStarted · GitHubOrganization · IssueTracker · Lifecycle · LLMsTxt · Login · MCPServer · OAuthScopes · OpenIDConnect · Overlay · Packages · Plans · Pricing · PrivacyPolicy · ReleaseNotes · Releases · Sandbox · SDKs · SecondaryMarketListing · Security · SecurityTxt · SignUp · StatusPage · Support · TermsOfService · ToolCrosswalk · TrustCenter · VulnerabilityDisclosure · Webhooks · Website · WellKnown
APIs (385), the first 12:
- WordPress.com MCP Server — APIReference, Documentation, MCPServer, ToolCrosswalk
- WordPress VIP Platform API — APIReference, Documentation, GettingStarted, GraphQL
- Automattic A8c Lore API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
- Automattic A8cmentorship API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
- Automattic Abilities API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
- Automattic Activity API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
- Automattic Activity Log Events API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
- Automattic Activitypub API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
- Automattic Adflow API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
- Automattic Admin Bar API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
- Automattic Admin Color API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
- Automattic Admin Menu API — APIReference, Console, Documentation, GettingStarted, OpenAPI, PluginManifest, SourceCode
How the file drives the Kin Score
64 checks in rubric 0.25.0 read this file. 38 are earned, 2 partly, and 24 are not.
| Check | Points | What it reads |
|---|---|---|
| Discoverability — 37 of 43 points | ||
| Publishes an apis.yml index | 10 / 10 | source_filename == "apis.yml" |
| Base URL on every API | 5 / 5 | every api has baseURL and no baseURL contains "localhost" |
| Human URL on every API | 5 / 5 | every api has humanURL |
| Substantive description | 5 / 5 | len(description) >= 200 |
| Tagged for discovery | 5 / 5 | len(tags) >= 5 |
| Named maintainer | 3 / 3 | maintainers[0].email is set |
| Created and modified dates | 2 / 2 | created and modified both ISO dates |
| Provider image | 2 / 2 | image is set |
| Operational transparency — 20 of 26 points | ||
| Change log | 6 / 6 | common[].type includes "ChangeLog" (alias-aware) |
| Status page | 6 / 6 | common[].type includes "StatusPage" |
| Security disclosure | 4 / 4 | common[].type includes "Security" (alias-aware) |
| Webhooks advertised | 3 / 3 | common[].type includes "Webhooks" |
| GitHub organization | 1 / 2 | common[].type includes "GitHubOrganization" or "GitHubRepository" (alias-aware) |
| Developer ergonomics — 33.8 of 42 points | ||
| Authentication documented | 5 / 5 | common[].type includes "Authentication" |
| Getting started guide | 5 / 5 | common[].type includes "GettingStarted" or "Quickstart" |
| Developer portal | 4 / 4 | common[].type includes "DeveloperPortal" (alias-aware) |
| Documentation | 4 / 4 | common[].type includes "Documentation" |
| API reference | 3 / 3 | common[].type includes "APIReference" (alias-aware) |
| At least one SDK | 3 / 3 | count(common[].type == "SDK" alias-aware) >= 1 |
| Command-line interface | 3 / 3 | common[].type includes "CLI" |
| Console or sandbox | 3 / 3 | common[].type includes "Console" or "Sandbox" or "Playground" |
| Support channel | 2 / 2 | common[].type includes "Support" or "HelpCenter" or "Community" |
| Blog | 1 / 1 | common[].type includes "Blog" |
| Agent Skill | 0.8 / 3 | common[].type includes "AgentSkill", graded by who authored it |
| Access clarity — 23 of 23 points | ||
| Self-service sign-up | 5 / 5 | common[].type includes "SignUp" or "Login" |
| Pricing published | 4 / 4 | common[].type includes "Pricing" |
| Privacy policy | 4 / 4 | common[].type includes "PrivacyPolicy" (alias-aware) |
| Terms of service | 4 / 4 | common[].type includes "TermsOfService" (alias-aware) |
| Compliance published | 3 / 3 | common[].type includes "Compliance" |
| Trust center | 3 / 3 | common[].type includes "TrustCenter" or "Trust" |
| Regulatory — 46 of 94 points | ||
| Consent-scoped authorization | 10 / 10 | common[].type includes "OAuthScopes" OR a scopes artifact is present |
| Authentication model documented | 6 / 6 | common[].type includes "Authentication" or "OpenIDConnect" |
| Security posture published | 6 / 6 | common[].type includes "Security" or "DomainSecurity" |
| Vulnerability disclosure program | 6 / 6 | common[].type includes "VulnerabilityDisclosure" |
| Compliance / certification disclosure | 5 / 5 | common[].type includes "Compliance" or "TrustCenter" or "Trust" |
| Data-standard conformance | 5 / 5 | implements a recognized data standard — common[].type includes "Standard"/"Conformance", or a Vocabulary/JSON-LD context is published |
| Privacy policy (data handling) | 4 / 4 | common[].type includes "PrivacyPolicy" |
| Terms of service (legal basis) | 4 / 4 | common[].type includes "TermsOfService" |
| Agent readiness — 14 of 30 points | ||
| Stable Error Semantics | 8 / 8 | OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes |
| Typed Event Surface | 6 / 6 | AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks |
What the file does not say yet
93.2 more points depend on entries this file does not have. A missing pointer means the file does not link to it. It does not mean Automattic has not published it.
- 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) - Publishes a vocabulary (5 pts) —
common[].type includes "Vocabulary" - Accessibility conformance report (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "AccessibilityConformance" - Age assurance (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "AgeAssurance" - Data residency statement (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "DataResidency" - Data-subject request route (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "DataSubjectRequest" - Declared support lifetime (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "SupportLifetime" - Exit assistance / switching terms (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "ExitAssistance" - Global Privacy Control honoured (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "GlobalPrivacyControl" - Incident notification commitment (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "IncidentNotification" - Notice-and-action mechanism (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "NoticeAndAction" - Published example corpus (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "Examples" (alias-aware: CodeExamples, Samples, CodeSamples, Demos) - Self-hosts the APIs.json index (4 pts) —
apis.yml url points at a host the provider controls, not the catalog - Software bill of materials (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "SBOM" - Subprocessor list (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "Subprocessors" - Three or more SDKs (4 pts) —
count(common[].type == "SDK" alias-aware) >= 3 - Transparency report (4 pts) —
common[].type includes "TransparencyReport" - Well-Known Catalog (4 pts) —
common[].type includes WellKnown, APICatalog, or api-catalog - Consent & Bot Identity (3 pts) —
common[].type includes AIPREF, ContentSignal, WebBotAuth, or HTTPMessageSignatures - Deprecation policy (3 pts) —
common[].type includes "Deprecation" (alias-aware) - Postman collection (2 pts) —
common[].type includes "Postman" (alias-aware), graded by who authored it - Public roadmap (2 pts) —
common[].type includes "RoadMap" or "Roadmap" - Leadership page (1 pt) —
common[].type includes Leadership, LeadershipTeam, Management or ExecutiveTeam - Newsroom (1 pt) —
common[].type includes Newsroom, PressReleases, Press or News
Who keeps this file
API Evangelist maintains this file at github.com/api-evangelist/automattic. If you work at Automattic, you can open an issue or a pull request to add or correct an entry. You can also publish your own APIs.json at /.well-known/apis.json on your domain, which earns the self-hosting check and makes the file yours.
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