# BambooHR — API Agent Score

> Score: 66/100 (Grade: C) | Domain: bamboohr.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

BambooHR scored 66/100 (C), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 66/100 (C)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 80/100 (A)
- Developer Experience: 52/100 (D)
- Agent Discovery: 69/100 (C)
- Agent Understanding: 83/100 (A)
- Agent Usability: 51/100 (D)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Schema coverage & depth — .d.ts present on disk but not declared in package.json. Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 67%.
- [warn] Machine-readable, versioned contract — info.version="1.0" 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%.
- [warn] Auth declared & discoverable — Authentication applied on 277/278 operations (partial coverage). Investigated: docs 50%, wellknown 50%, spec 25%.
- [warn] Example coverage — README is present but has no runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 50%, spec 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Description completeness — 94% of operations + parameters have substantive descriptions. Investigated: spec 100%.
- [pass] Changelog published — Newest official SDK activity 3 day(s) ago. Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [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] Quickstart present — No quickstart/getting-started page found at the conventional paths. Investigated: docs 0%.
- [skip] Code samples in docs — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (websites/bamboohr, 153 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, cli 0%.
- [warn] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — 17 JavaScript redirect(s) detected across 17 pages. Investigated: docs 50%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — Could not test any pages; 17 failed to fetch. Investigated: docs 43%, sdk 0%.
- [warn] Crawlable / AEO — No sitemap discoverable via robots.txt or /sitemap.xml on the docs host. Investigated: wellknown 50%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — 15 distinct 4xx/5xx response codes documented. Investigated: docs 100%, spec 50%.
- [pass] Operation purpose clarity — 99% of operations have a clear summary + operationId an agent can select on. Investigated: spec 100%.
- [warn] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — No pages support .md URLs (0/17 tested). Investigated: docs 69%.
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.
- [skip] Docs structured data — 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] Pagination documented & consistent — Pagination params detected on 32 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] Idempotency documented — 3% of mutating operations document idempotency. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%, sdk 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

BambooHR's API program shows strong fundamentals in contract design, authentication, and documentation parseability — partners and agents can read and understand the surface once they find it. The critical gaps are in getting partners to a first working call quickly and giving agents the operational context they need to run reliable, autonomous workflows. Prioritize standing up a self-service onboarding path with runnable examples, then close the agent-instruction and operational-reliability gaps to make the program truly partner-ready.