# Yugabyte — API Agent Score

> Score: 71/100 (Grade: B) | Domain: yugabyte.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 30, 2026

Yugabyte scored 71/100 (B), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 71/100 (B)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 93/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 79/100 (B)
- Agent Discovery: 77/100 (B)
- Agent Understanding: 73/100 (B)
- Agent Usability: 46/100 (F)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Machine-readable, versioned contract — Versioning declared (info.version="v2") 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%.
- [warn] Schema coverage & depth — 92% of operations have documented schemas (target 95%+). Investigated: spec 67%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — No credential-shaped strings detected in spec. Investigated: spec 100%, wellknown 0%.
- [pass] Example coverage — Code samples present on 1/20 pages across 1 language(s); broader multi-language coverage missing. Investigated: docs 100%, spec 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Self-service developer portal — Self-service signup at https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/quick-start-yugabytedb-managed/; no free tier or sandbox language detected. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Code samples in docs — Code samples present on 1/20 pages across 1 language(s); broader multi-language coverage missing. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Description completeness — 83% description completeness (target 90%+). Investigated: spec 100%.
- [pass] Changelog published — Newest official SDK activity 19 day(s) ago. Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Quickstart present — No quickstart/getting-started page found at the conventional paths. Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (websites/yugabyte, 10577 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, cli 100%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — No llms.txt directive found in HTML of any of 50 sampled pages. Investigated: docs 56%.
- [warn] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — 3 JavaScript redirect(s) detected across 50 sampled pages. Investigated: docs 50%.
- [pass] Crawlable / AEO — Docs paths crawlable by all monitored AI agents. Investigated: wellknown 100%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — 5 distinct 4xx/5xx response codes documented. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [pass] Operation purpose clarity — 100% of operations have a clear summary + operationId an agent can select on. Investigated: spec 100%.
- [warn] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — No sampled pages support .md URLs (0/48 tested). Investigated: docs 63%.
- [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 3 assessed pages (3 JS-rendered). Investigated: docs 0%.
- [fail] Description consistency across surfaces — Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (spec, docs) is 0% (threshold 35% for full credit).

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Pagination documented & consistent — pagination documented in the docs site at https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/develop/ai/mcp-server/. Investigated: docs 100%, spec 50%.
- [fail] Idempotency documented — 3% of mutating operations document idempotency. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Rate-limit signaling — No rate-limit response headers documented. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Sandbox separation — No sandbox/test server declared across 1 server entries; no test-key prefixes 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

Yugabyte's API program shows strong API design fundamentals, giving partners a solid contract to build against. However, the program has two critical gaps holding back partner success: agents and developers cannot reliably use or trust the APIs in practice (missing sandbox environments, runnable examples, and operational reliability signals), and the documentation surface lacks the machine-readable structure, consistency, and agent-oriented context that modern AI-assisted integrations require. Prioritizing executable, trustworthy integration assets first — then hardening the documentation layer for agent consumption — will unlock self-serve partner onboarding and unblock AI-assisted workflows.