# Onfido — API Agent Score

> Score: 64/100 (Grade: C) | Domain: onfido.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Onfido scored 64/100 (C), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 64/100 (C)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 68/100 (C)
- Developer Experience: 78/100 (B)
- Agent Discovery: 55/100 (D)
- Agent Understanding: 53/100 (D)
- Agent Usability: 72/100 (B)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Schema coverage & depth — 6/6 (100%) public params are fully typed (no any/**kwargs). Analyzer confirms all methods have a derivable input schema. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [warn] Example coverage — README is present but has no runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 50%.
- [fail] Security & governance hygiene — No security.txt at /.well-known/security.txt or /security.txt. Investigated: wellknown 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] Self-service developer portal — Signup page at https://dashboard.onfido.com/dashboard/; no free-tier language detected in docs/pricing. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Changelog published — Newest official SDK activity 3 day(s) ago. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [fail] Description completeness — 3/3 operations lack a description. Investigated: sdk 0%.
- [skip] Quickstart present — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Code samples in docs — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (onfido/onfido-python, 534 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, cli 0%.
- [fail] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — No /llms-full.txt found at the candidate origins. Investigated: docs 0%, sdk 0%.
- [fail] Crawlable / AEO — No sitemap discoverable via robots.txt or /sitemap.xml on the docs host. Investigated: wellknown 0%.
- [skip] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Agent Understanding

- [warn] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — Single base error "SdkError" present, but only 1 subclass found; a richer hierarchy lets consumers catch narrowly. Investigated: sdk 50%.
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.
- [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] 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] 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

Onfido's API program shows strength in safe integration and basic API shape, but has critical gaps in agent discoverability and developer-facing documentation quality that will block both partners and AI agents from self-serving. The two weakest areas — agent discovery (no llms.txt, no crawlable surface, no agent instructions) and agent understanding (no AGENTS.md) — mean partners and their coding agents cannot find or confidently build against Onfido's APIs without a manual sales or support touchpoint. Prioritize making the API program machine-readable and discoverable first, then close the remaining gaps in description quality, security hygiene, and runnable examples to compress partner onboarding from weeks to minutes.