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CMA CGM's API program shows meaningful investment in its core contract, but partners and their AI agents face significant friction in three areas: onboarding is manual and code-sample-poor (forcing partners to wait rather than self-serve), agent-facing context is largely absent (no instructions file, no idempotency guidance, no runnable collection), and discoverability falls short of what modern agents require to find and act on APIs autonomously. Prioritizing a self-service portal with embedded code samples and agent-ready documentation will unblock the widest range of partners fastest, while closing the runnable-truth and security-hygiene gaps ensures integrations are both trustworthy and resilient.
API DesignA clean, typed, well-governed API contract agents can reason about2 pass0 warn1 fail75B
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pass | Schema coverage & depthvia sdk | 25/25 | 4/4 enums are named types (not bare strings). Investigated: sdk 100%. | Typed, complete request/response schemas are what make agent function-calling possible. |
| pass | Example coveragevia sdk | 10/10 | README is present and includes a runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 100%, docs 0%. | Examples carry shape semantics schemas under-specify — for humans and agents alike. |
| fail | Security & governance hygienevia wellknown | 0/15 | No security.txt at /.well-known/security.txt or /security.txt. Investigated: wellknown 0%. | No leaked secrets, no critical lint violations, no OWASP API Top-10 spec smells, and a published vulnerability-disclosure channel. |
| na | Machine-readable, versioned contract | —/25 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | A current OpenAPI version with a declared versioning scheme lets agents reason about the contract. |
| na | Auth declared & discoverable | —/25 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | Agents can only authenticate when auth is declared, scoped, and discoverable. |
Developer ExperienceThe context both developers and agents need to integrate fast — onboarding, code samples, complete descriptions and worked examples0 pass1 warn2 fail44F
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| warn | Quickstart presentvia docs | 12.5/25 | Quickstart page reachable (12 variants scanned starting at https://api-portal.cma-cgm.com/quickstart) but no runnable code sample detected in HTML or .md variant. Investigated: docs 50%. | A quickstart is the fastest path from landing page to first successful call. |
| fail | Self-service developer portalvia docs | 0/29 | No self-service signup detected: no signup link found on the homepage or docs, and no conventional signup path (/signup, /sign-up, /register, /get-started, /console/signup, /dashboard/signup, /try, /try-free, /free, /free-trial, /start, /start-free, /join, /create-account, /account/signup, /auth/signup, /users/sign_up) resolved. Investigated: docs 0%. | Self-serve key/account creation is the fast first call for partners, with no sales gate. |
| fail | Code samples in docsvia docs | 0/18 | No detectable code samples across 1 sampled docs pages. Investigated: docs 0%. | Multi-language samples shorten time-to-first-call. |
| na | Description completeness | —/15 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | Complete descriptions are the context humans and agents need to use endpoints. |
| na | Changelog published | —/13 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | A published changelog lets partners track changes without surprise. |
Agent DiscoveryPartners and their agents can find your APIs — llms.txt, registries, crawlable and reachable docs0 pass4 warn0 fail57D
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| warn | Docs reachable, not hard auth-gatedvia docs | 15/30 | 1 of 1 pages return 200 for non-existent URLs (soft 404). Investigated: docs 50%. | Agents can only index and fetch docs they can reach — past auth gates and over correct HTTP semantics. |
| warn | llms.txt present, valid & comprehensivevia docs | 10/30 | No llms.txt found at any candidate location (https://api-portal.cma-cgm.com/llms.txt, https://api-portal.cma-cgm.com/docs/llms.txt). Investigated: docs 33%, sdk 0%. | A valid, comprehensive llms.txt is the machine-readable entry point for agents. |
| warn | Registry & SDK presencevia sdk | 9.3/28 | No official SDKs discovered via npm, PyPI, or GitHub. Investigated: sdk 33%, docs 0%, cli 0%. | Listing in MCP registries and publishing SDKs puts the API where agents and their tooling look. |
| warn | Crawlable / AEOvia wellknown | 9/12 | Sitemap present (0 entries) but carries no lastmod values. Investigated: wellknown 75%. | Bots allowed plus a fresh sitemap make docs findable by agent crawlers. |
Agent UnderstandingAgents can correctly interpret your APIs — machine-readable errors, consistent descriptions, structured data, parseable docs0 pass3 warn1 fail58D
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| warn | Agent-navigable, token-efficient docsvia docs | 14.1/22 | 1 of 1 pages appear to be client-side rendered SPA shells (root detected); agents using HTTP fetches will see no content. Investigated: docs 64%. | Server-rendered, clean, small-footprint docs are what an agent can cheaply fetch and parse correctly. |
| warn | Docs structured datavia docs | 4/8 | OpenGraph/meta tags only across 1 assessed pages — no JSON-LD for answer engines to cite. Investigated: docs 50%. | Structured data (JSON-LD/schema.org) on docs pages gives agents an unambiguous parse target and is what answer engines cite. Detected on the JS-rendered head (Firecrawl) for a bounded page budget, so JS-injected JSON-LD is now caught; pages we can't render are excluded rather than failed. |
| warn | Description consistency across surfaces | 2.7/7 | Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (docs, sdk) is 13% (threshold 35% for full credit). | Every surface tells the same story about what the product is. |
| fail | Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md)via wellknown | 0/10 | No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%. | An AGENTS.md gives coding agents explicit setup, auth, and usage instructions to interpret and operate the API — beyond llms.txt's link index. |
| na | Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) | —/28 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | RFC 9457 problem details and a documented error-code inventory let agents parse failures without burning tokens. |
| na | Operation purpose clarity | —/25 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | Agents select the right endpoint from its summary + operationId; clear, named operations make tool-selection reliable — the strongest driver of correct tool choice. |
Agent UsabilityAgents have the context to use your APIs reliably, not just find them0 pass1 warn2 fail45F
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| warn | Sandbox separationvia sdk | 10/20 | No test-mode flag or sandbox environment is exposed. Investigated: sdk 50%. | An isolated environment lets agents exercise destructive operations safely. |
| fail | Idempotency documentedvia sdk | 0/27 | No built-in retry machinery was found; transient failures are not retried. Investigated: sdk 0%. | Documented idempotency lets agents retry safely. |
| fail | Runnable collection with test scriptsvia platform | 0/9 | No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%. | A public, maintained collection with assertions is runnable truth agents validate against. |
| na | Rate-limit signaling | —/22 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | Machine-readable rate-limit headers let agents throttle adaptively. |
| na | Pagination documented & consistent | —/22 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | Consistent, documented pagination lets agents traverse collections. |