# Ory — API Agent Score

> Score: 79/100 (Grade: B) | Domain: ory.sh | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Ory scored 79/100 (B), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 79/100 (B)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 91/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 59/100 (D)
- Agent Discovery: 85/100 (A)
- Agent Understanding: 83/100 (A)
- Agent Usability: 74/100 (B)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Auth declared & discoverable — authentication documented in the docs site at https://www.ory.com/talos. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, wellknown 0%.
- [warn] Schema coverage & depth — 0/6 (0%) enum-like params are realized as constrained types (not bare strings). Investigated: sdk 86%, spec 67%.
- [warn] Machine-readable, versioned contract — info.version="latest" set but no versioning scheme (URL / header / media type) detected. Investigated: spec 75%, docs 50%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — No credential-shaped strings detected in spec. Investigated: spec 100%, wellknown 100%.
- [pass] Example coverage — Code samples in 4 language(s) across docs (top: javascript, typescript, python); 1/20 pages have ≥ 2 languages on the same page. Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, spec 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Code samples in docs — Code samples in 4 language(s) across docs (top: javascript, typescript, python); 1/20 pages have ≥ 2 languages on the same page. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Description completeness — 90% of operations + parameters have substantive descriptions. Investigated: spec 100%, sdk 100%.
- [pass] Changelog published — changelog documented in the docs site at https://www.ory.com/blog/changelog-saml-jackson-2024. 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%.
- [fail] Quickstart present — No quickstart/getting-started page found at the conventional paths. 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 (ory/docs, 9076 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, cli 100%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — No llms.txt directive found in HTML of any of 1 pages. Investigated: docs 42%, sdk 0%.
- [pass] Crawlable / AEO — Docs paths crawlable by all monitored AI agents. Investigated: wellknown 100%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — 9 distinct 4xx/5xx response codes documented. Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 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 — No pages support .md URLs (0/1 tested). Investigated: docs 85%.
- [pass] Docs structured data — JSON-LD Article markup on 9/14 assessed pages (64%) with dateModified present. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [warn] Description consistency across surfaces — Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (spec, docs) is 1% (threshold 35% for full credit).
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [pass] Pagination documented & consistent — Pagination params detected on 13 list endpoint(s). Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 0%.
- [pass] Sandbox separation — Sandbox environments are exposed (sandbox). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Rate-limit signaling — No rate-limit response headers documented. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Runnable collection with test scripts — No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%.

## Executive Summary

Ory's API program stands out for its machine-readable contract and schema quality — a strong foundation for partners and agents building integrations. However, two areas demand immediate attention: partners and their AI agents lack the structured context files and runnable examples they need to integrate without guessing, and there is no self-service onboarding path, meaning partners still face friction before writing a single line of code. Closing these gaps will unlock faster partner activation and enable AI-assisted integrations to work reliably against Ory's APIs from day one.