# IBM — API Agent Score

> Score: 62/100 (Grade: C) | Domain: ibm.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

IBM scored 62/100 (C), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 62/100 (C)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 94/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 55/100 (D)
- Agent Discovery: 63/100 (C)
- Agent Understanding: 40/100 (F)
- Agent Usability: 72/100 (B)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [warn] Schema coverage & depth — 33/39 (85%) public params are fully typed (no any/**kwargs). Analyzer reports not all methods have a derivable input schema. Investigated: sdk 87%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — security.txt valid at https://ibm.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] Description completeness — 29/29 operations carry a description. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [pass] Changelog published — Newest official SDK activity 5 day(s) ago. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [warn] Quickstart present — Quickstart page reachable (2 variants scanned starting at https://developer.ibm.com/docs/quickstart/) but no runnable code sample detected in HTML or .md variant. Investigated: docs 50%.
- [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] 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 (websites/bob_ibm, 1649 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, cli 0%.
- [warn] Crawlable / AEO — Sitemap present (1976 entries) but carries no lastmod values. Investigated: wellknown 75%.
- [fail] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — No /llms-full.txt found at the candidate origins. Investigated: docs 0%, sdk 0%.
- [skip] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Agent Understanding

- [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] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Operation purpose clarity — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [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 — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [warn] Sandbox separation — No test-mode flag or sandbox environment is exposed. Investigated: sdk 50%.
- [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

IBM's API design foundation is strong, giving partners a reliable contract to build against. However, the program has two critical gaps: AI agents and automated tooling cannot discover or parse the API surface without manual intervention, and partners face significant friction reaching their first successful integration due to missing self-service infrastructure and runnable examples. Closing the agent-discoverability and onboarding gaps should be the immediate priority to make the program competitive for both human partners and the AI-driven workflows they increasingly rely on.