# Apple — API Agent Score

> Score: 81/100 (Grade: A) | Domain: apple.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 29, 2026

Apple scored 81/100 (A), classified "ai-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 81/100 (A)
- Classification: ai-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 100/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 85/100 (A)
- Agent Discovery: 65/100 (C)
- Agent Understanding: 71/100 (B)
- Agent Usability: 86/100 (A)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Schema coverage & depth — 508/508 (100%) public params are fully typed (no any/**kwargs). Analyzer confirms all methods have a derivable input schema. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — security.txt valid at https://apple.com/.well-known/security.txt (Contact + unexpired Expires). Investigated: wellknown 100%.
- [pass] Example coverage — README is present and includes a runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 100%, docs 0%.
- [skip] Machine-readable, versioned contract — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Auth declared & discoverable — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Self-service developer portal — Signup page at https://register.apple.com/business/ui; no free-tier language detected in docs/pricing. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Quickstart present — Quickstart at https://developer.apple.com/get-started/ with a runnable first-call sample. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Description completeness — 35/35 operations carry a description. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [pass] Changelog published — Newest official SDK activity 8 day(s) ago. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [fail] Code samples in docs — No detectable code samples across 1 sampled docs pages. Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (apple-oss-distributions/security, 75 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, cli 100%, sdk 92%.
- [warn] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — Server ignores Accept: text/markdown header (0/1 pages return markdown). Investigated: docs 75%.
- [warn] Crawlable / AEO — No sitemap discoverable via robots.txt or /sitemap.xml on the docs host. Investigated: wellknown 50%.
- [fail] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — No llms.txt found at any candidate location (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/llms.txt, https://developer.apple.com/llms.txt, https://developer.apple.com/docs/llms.txt). Investigated: docs 0%, sdk 0%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — Single base error "VerificationException" with 2 subclasses. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [warn] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — No pages support .md URLs (0/1 tested). Investigated: docs 71%.
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.
- [fail] Docs structured data — Neither JSON-LD nor OpenGraph/meta tags detected across 1 assessed pages (1 JS-rendered). Investigated: docs 0%.
- [skip] Operation purpose clarity — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Description consistency across surfaces — Only 1 surface description(s) with ≥6 tokens available; need at least 2 to compare.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [pass] Sandbox separation — Sandbox environments are exposed (Sandbox, Production, Xcode, LocalTesting). Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [fail] Runnable collection with test scripts — No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%.
- [skip] Rate-limit signaling — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Pagination documented & consistent — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

## Executive Summary

Apple's API program shows real strength in usability and developer experience, but two areas are holding back partner and agent adoption: agents cannot discover the APIs without a sales conversation (no machine-readable front door), and once they find the docs, they lack the structured context and instructions needed to act autonomously. Closing the discovery and agent-understanding gaps should be the immediate priority — both are prerequisites for partners and their AI agents to self-serve successfully.