# Dovetail — API Agent Score

> Score: 76/100 (Grade: B) | Domain: dovetail.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: October 19, 2026

Dovetail scored 76/100 (B), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 76/100 (B)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 70/100 (B)
- Developer Experience: 72/100 (B)
- Agent Discovery: 100/100 (A+)
- Agent Understanding: 59/100 (D)
- Agent Usability: 85/100 (A)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Schema coverage & depth — 2/2 enums are named types (not bare strings). Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — Code is formatter-clean with zero linter errors and zero style warnings. Investigated: sdk 100%, wellknown 0%.
- [warn] Machine-readable, versioned contract — no machine-readable help (`--help --format json` unsupported). Investigated: cli 50%.
- [pass] Example coverage — Code samples appear on 20 of 20 sampled docs pages across 2 language(s), but broader multi-language coverage is missing. Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, cli 100%.
- [fail] Auth declared & discoverable — no auth/config hint in --help. Investigated: cli 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Self-service developer portal — Signup page found at https://dovetail.com/start/, but no free tier or sandbox is documented in docs/pricing, so an agent may hit a paywall. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Code samples in docs — Code samples appear on 20 of 20 sampled docs pages across 2 language(s), but broader multi-language coverage is missing. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [fail] Quickstart present — No quickstart or getting-started page found at the conventional docs paths, so new developers and agents have no obvious first step. Investigated: docs 0%.
- [skip] Description completeness — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Changelog published — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — llms.txt found at 2 locations; using https://developers.dovetail.com/docs/llms.txt as canonical. Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 0%.
- [pass] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — All 1 pages are publicly accessible. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (websites/developers_dovetail_reference, 327 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 67%, cli 0%, mcp 0%, wellknown 0%.
- [pass] Crawlable / AEO — robots.txt lets all monitored AI crawlers reach the docs paths. Investigated: wellknown 100%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — All 1 pages contain server-rendered content. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Docs structured data — Machine-readable JSON-LD Article markup on 20 of 20 assessed pages (100%), with dateModified present. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [warn] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No agents.md or skill.md context file found (nice-to-have for agent operation). Investigated: sdk 50%, cli 0%, wellknown 0%.
- [fail] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — errors are prose, not a structured envelope. Investigated: cli 0%.
- [fail] Description consistency across surfaces — Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (docs, sdk) is 0% (threshold 35% for full credit).
- [skip] Operation purpose clarity — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%, cli 25%.
- [warn] Sandbox separation — No test-mode flag or sandbox environment is exposed. Investigated: sdk 50%.
- [pass] Runnable collection with test scripts — README is present and includes a runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 100%, 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

Dovetail's API program shows strength in safe integration practices, but two areas are holding back partner and agent adoption: Agent Understanding is critically weak, with unstructured errors and inconsistent descriptions that prevent AI agents from reliably parsing and acting on your API surface. Developer Experience also has a gap in guided onboarding, meaning new partners and agents have no obvious first step. Prioritize making errors machine-readable and descriptions consistent first — these are the highest-friction blockers for any partner or agent trying to integrate — then close the onboarding gap to compress time to a partner's first successful call.