# Deel — API Agent Score

> Score: 87/100 (Grade: A) | Domain: deel.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Deel scored 87/100 (A), classified "ai-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 87/100 (A)
- Classification: ai-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 93/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 76/100 (B)
- Agent Discovery: 95/100 (A+)
- Agent Understanding: 80/100 (A)
- Agent Usability: 92/100 (A+)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Machine-readable, versioned contract — Versioning declared (info.version="1.25.0") and url-versioning detected. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [pass] Auth declared & discoverable — Authentication required (global or on every operation). Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, wellknown 100%.
- [warn] Schema coverage & depth — 90% of operations have documented schemas (target 95%+). Investigated: spec 67%, sdk 25%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — security.txt valid at https://deel.com/.well-known/security.txt (Contact + unexpired Expires). Investigated: wellknown 100%, spec 0%.
- [pass] Example coverage — Code samples present on 3/7 pages across 1 language(s); broader multi-language coverage missing. Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, spec 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Quickstart present — Quickstart at https://developer.deel.com/home with a runnable first-call sample. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Code samples in docs — Code samples present on 3/7 pages across 1 language(s); broader multi-language coverage missing. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Description completeness — 99% of operations + parameters have substantive descriptions. Investigated: spec 100%, sdk 5%.
- [pass] Changelog published — changelog documented in the docs site at https://developer.deel.com/api/changelog. 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%.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — All 1 pages are publicly accessible. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (websites/developer_deel, 9443 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 0%, cli 0%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — llms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't fully follow the proposed structure: https://developer.deel.com/home/llms.txt: No H1 heading found, No heading-delimited sections found. Investigated: docs 90%, sdk 0%.
- [warn] Crawlable / AEO — Sitemap lastmod coverage 10% or newest entry older than 90 days. Investigated: wellknown 75%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — 10 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 — 1 of 1 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 61% missing). Investigated: docs 80%.
- [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 2 assessed pages (2 JS-rendered). Investigated: docs 0%.
- [skip] Description consistency across surfaces — Only 0 surface description(s) with ≥6 tokens available; need at least 2 to compare.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — idempotency documented in the docs site at https://developer.deel.com/api/idempotency. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 0%.
- [pass] Rate-limit signaling — rate-limit behavior documented in the docs site at https://developer.deel.com/api/rate-limits. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [pass] Pagination documented & consistent — Pagination params detected on 114 list endpoint(s). Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [pass] Sandbox separation — sandbox documented in the docs site at https://developer.deel.com/api/sandbox. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 50%.
- [fail] Runnable collection with test scripts — No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%.

## Executive Summary

Deel's API program demonstrates strong fundamentals in design, discovery, and documentation parseability — giving partners a solid foundation to build on. However, two areas need urgent attention: agents and coding assistants lack the structured context files and machine-readable signals they need to reliably understand and act on the API, and partners cannot yet get hands-on through a self-service portal or runnable environment without friction. Prioritizing agent-readiness and self-serve onboarding will unlock faster partner integration and reduce the manual support burden required today.