# Algolia — API Agent Score

> Score: 79/100 (Grade: B) | Domain: algolia.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Algolia scored 79/100 (B), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 79/100 (B)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 94/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 63/100 (C)
- Agent Discovery: 90/100 (A+)
- Agent Understanding: 79/100 (B)
- Agent Usability: 67/100 (C)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Schema coverage & depth — 124/124 enums are named types (not bare strings). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 67%.
- [pass] Auth declared & discoverable — Authentication required (global or on every operation). Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [warn] Machine-readable, versioned contract — info.version="1.0.0" set but no versioning scheme (URL / header / media type) detected. Investigated: spec 75%, docs 50%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — No credential-shaped strings detected in spec. Investigated: spec 100%, wellknown 0%.
- [pass] Example coverage — README is present and includes a runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Quickstart present — Quickstart at https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/get-started/quickstart with a runnable first-call sample. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Description completeness — 92% of operations + parameters have substantive descriptions. Investigated: spec 100%.
- [pass] Changelog published — changelog documented in the docs site at https://changelog.algolia.com/. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 100%.
- [fail] Self-service developer portal — No signup page detected across conventional paths (/signup, /sign-up, /register, /get-started, /console/signup, /dashboard/signup, /try, /try-free, /free, /free-trial, /start, /start-free). Investigated: docs 0%.
- [fail] Code samples in docs — No detectable code samples across 18 sampled docs pages. Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — All 50 sampled pages are publicly accessible. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (websites/algolia_doc, 24056 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, mcp 100%, sdk 58%, cli 50%, wellknown 0%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — llms.txt covers 879/1880 sitemap doc pages (47%); 1001 missing. Investigated: docs 71%, sdk 0%.
- [warn] Crawlable / AEO — Sitemap present (3 entries) but carries no lastmod values. Investigated: wellknown 75%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — 4 distinct 4xx/5xx response codes documented. Investigated: docs 100%, spec 50%.
- [pass] Operation purpose clarity — 100% of operations have a clear summary + operationId an agent can select on. Investigated: spec 100%.
- [warn] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — 15 of 50 pages have minor content differences between markdown and HTML. Investigated: docs 83%.
- [warn] Docs structured data — JSON-LD on 4/15 assessed pages, but coverage is sparse or dateModified is missing. Investigated: docs 50%.
- [warn] Description consistency across surfaces — Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (spec, docs) is 2% (threshold 35% for full credit).
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [pass] Pagination documented & consistent — Pagination params detected on 5 list endpoint(s). Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [warn] Sandbox separation — No test-mode flag or sandbox environment is exposed. Investigated: sdk 50%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Rate-limit signaling — No rate-limit response headers documented. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Runnable collection with test scripts — No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%.

## Executive Summary

Algolia's API program excels at discovery and machine-readable contract quality, giving partners and agents a strong foundation to find and read the API surface. However, two areas demand immediate attention: agents lack the structured instruction context and runnable examples they need to integrate correctly without guessing, and partner onboarding still requires too much friction before a first successful call. Closing these gaps — by adding agent-facing instruction files and a self-service portal with executable collections — will materially reduce partner integration time and make Algolia's APIs reliably usable by both human developers and AI coding agents.