# com.apievangelist/api-evangelist (remote · mcp.apievangelist.com)

Sixteen years of API research as MCP tools — stories, areas, governance blocks & services

- Trust score: 63/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +2
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `mcp.apievangelist.com`: 63/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-apievangelist-api-evangelist/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-apievangelist-api-evangelist/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 57 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 81/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 3700 tokens (~60/item across 61 items; 57 tools + 4 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 73/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 18% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-apievangelist-api-evangelist https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-apievangelist-api-evangelist]
url = "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-apievangelist-api-evangelist": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-apievangelist-api-evangelist --url https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-apievangelist-api-evangelist:
    url: "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-apievangelist-api-evangelist": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-08-02 (score 63, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-31 (score 62, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-30 (score 61, −1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-28 (score 62, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-27 (score 61, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-26 (score 60)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (57)

### `get_overview` (~73 tokens)

START HERE. What the API Evangelist network offers: sixteen years of API research as searchable stories, 77 topic areas, governance building blocks (guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies), papers, conversations, and the consulting services Kin Lane offers teams. Returns counts, entry points, and how to engage.

### `guide_topic` (~92 tokens)

PRO — Curated guide to one API topic (e.g. "gateways", "api governance", "discovery", "agents"). Bundles the matching topic area (with related areas), top guidance, rules, policies, and standards, relevant papers and recent stories, plus the API Evangelist services that can help a team with this topic.

Input parameters:

- `topic` (string, required): The topic to build a guide for.

### `find_services` (~124 tokens)

The services API Evangelist offers teams and customers — API strategy, governance, discovery, and evangelism engagements by Kin Lane. The front door to working with API Evangelist. (For the third-party vendor registry, use find_solutions.)

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.

### `get_service` (~41 tokens)

Full detail for one service offering by slug; include=["content"] inlines the full pitch.

Input parameters:

- `include` (array)
- `slug` (string, required)

### `find_solutions` (~113 tokens)

The solutions registry — 740+ third-party API services and tools (gateways, portals, testing, monitoring, …) ranked by adoption across the companies API Evangelist tracks.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.

### `get_solution` (~31 tokens)

One solution from the vendor registry by slug, with its website and adoption count.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `find_tools` (~106 tokens)

The open-source tooling registry — 400+ tools in use across the companies API Evangelist tracks, each with adoption counts and technology-radar placement.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.

### `get_tool` (~35 tokens)

One tool from the tooling registry by slug, with its website, adoption count, and radar ring.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `get_contact` (~33 tokens)

Every way to reach API Evangelist — email, contact form, newsletter, GitHub, social channels, and postal mail.

### `search_api_evangelist` (~170 tokens)

Unified search across the whole network: 5k+ stories, 77 topic areas, 2.5k governance building blocks, papers, conversations, videos, tools, timelines, services, and vocabulary. Filter with types (posts, areas, guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies, schema, properties, experiences, lifecycle, conversations, videos, papers, services, solutions, tools, timelines, vocabulary).

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.
- `types` (array)

### `find_posts` (~107 tokens)

Search or browse 5,100+ API Evangelist stories (2010–present); filter by year or tags.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.
- `year` (string)

### `get_post` (~43 tokens)

One story by slug (YYYY-MM-DD-slug); include=["content"] returns the full markdown body.

Input parameters:

- `include` (array)
- `slug` (string, required)

### `find_areas` (~104 tokens)

The 77 focused topic areas of the network (agents, gateways, security, …), each a subsite with its own catalog.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.

### `get_area` (~31 tokens)

One topic area with its related-area graph resolved — walk the network from here.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `find_building_blocks` (~129 tokens)

Search the governance building blocks by type: guidance (177), rules (617), policies (283), standards (432), strategies (75), schema (11), properties (790), experiences (46), lifecycle (29).

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.
- `type` (string, required)

### `get_building_block` (~48 tokens)

One building block by type + slug; include=["content"] returns the full body.

Input parameters:

- `include` (array)
- `slug` (string, required)
- `type` (string, required)

### `find_conversations` (~99 tokens)

API Evangelist Conversations — recorded discussions with API practitioners (guest, company, YouTube/SoundCloud links).

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.

### `get_conversation` (~41 tokens)

One conversation with guest detail and media links; include=["content"] returns the writeup.

Input parameters:

- `include` (array)
- `slug` (string, required)

### `find_papers` (~95 tokens)

API Evangelist white papers — deep dives distilled from sixteen years of research, with outlines.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.

### `get_paper` (~28 tokens)

One paper with its full outline and purchase/landing URL.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `find_videos` (~97 tokens)

The API Evangelist video library — interviews and discussions from across the API space, searchable by transcript.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.

### `get_video` (~41 tokens)

One video by slug with its YouTube id; include=["content"] returns the full transcript.

Input parameters:

- `include` (array)
- `slug` (string, required)

### `get_timeline` (~79 tokens)

One of the four research timelines in chronological order: api (the moments that shaped web APIs), resources (which digital resources became APIs and when), industries (the industrial history framing API infrastructure), people (the people who made compute and APIs possible).

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `page` (integer)
- `timeline` (string, required)

### `get_guidance_section` (~63 tokens)

One editorial guidance section as a list: history, technology, business, politics, governance, or evangelism — the six lenses API Evangelist organizes guidance through.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `page` (integer)
- `section` (string, required)

### `find_vocabulary` (~112 tokens)

The API vocabulary — thousands of resources, actions, personas, domains, schemas, and tags extracted from the API landscape. Filter by category.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `fields` (array)
- `limit` (integer)
- `match` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string): Free text over title, summary, tags, and body.
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Tag slugs; match any by default.

### `get_feeds` (~36 tokens)

The static machine-readable feeds every network site publishes (JSON, APIs.json, zero-auth) — the no-key alternative to this API.

### `find_tags` (~79 tokens)

Browse and rank the network tag taxonomy — every subject tag across 16k+ docs, by frequency or breadth (how many content types use it). Search with q. The map of what API Evangelist covers.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string)
- `sort` (string)

### `get_tag` (~66 tokens)

One tag with its per-type counts and everything it labels across the whole network (stories, areas, guidance, papers, …). Filter with types.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `page` (integer)
- `slug` (string, required)
- `types` (array)

### `find_related` (~85 tokens)

Given any doc (type + slug), the most related content across the whole network, ranked by shared-tag relevance (rare, specific tags weigh most). "More like this," across stories, areas, guidance, papers, conversations, and more.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `slug` (string, required)
- `type` (string, required)
- `types` (array)

### `get_stats` (~31 tokens)

PRO — catalog intelligence: per-type counts, stories-per-year, and the top tags by reach across the network.

### `find_company_insights` (~57 tokens)

Browse profiled companies (Fortune 1000 + API providers) by name; ranked by technology-readiness signal. Free.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `page` (integer)
- `q` (string)

### `insights_dimensions` (~47 tokens)

Cross-section ranking of the 40 tracked investment dimensions (AI, cloud, governance, …) by company signal. Free.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `page` (integer)

### `insights_adoption` (~46 tokens)

Services, tools, or standards ranked by how many companies adopt them. Free.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `page` (integer)
- `type` (string)

### `get_company_insight` (~40 tokens)

Full demand-side profile for one company: 40-dimension readiness, adopted stack, per-quarter history. Pro.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `company_gaps` (~29 tokens)

A company's weakest investment dimensions — where it is thin. Pro.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `validate_api` (~71 tokens)

Lint an OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Arazzo, or JSON Schema document against the curated best-of-breed ruleset (Spectral) and return the findings. Pass your own `ruleset` to run rules you own instead of the catalog — which is what you should do before gating on anything.

### `api_coverage` (~46 tokens)

Measure how much of an API description your governance actually inspects — coverage by section, each rule's reach, and the rules that match nothing. Like test coverage, one altitude up.

### `reconcile_waivers` (~46 tokens)

Reconcile a waivers file against lint output: suppress sanctioned violations and surface the expired, stale, and expiring ones. Returns the effective failing set a build should gate on.

### `governance_report` (~31 tokens)

Turn Spectral findings into a self-contained HTML governance report — severity summary, grouped by rule, framed toward progress.

### `verify_certificate` (~36 tokens)

Re-verify a governance certificate against the API it attests to. If the API drifted or the certificate was forged, verification fails.

### `classify_api_fields` (~41 tokens)

Inventory the PII, secret, and sensitive fields an OpenAPI exposes, across parameters and request/response schemas. Run this before exposing an API to agents.

### `diff_api_versions` (~43 tokens)

Compare two OpenAPI versions and classify every change as breaking, non-breaking, or an addition — at path, operation, parameter, request-body, and response granularity.

### `api_scorecard` (~66 tokens)

Score an API's maturity 0-100 with a letter grade across design, governance coverage, documentation, and (from an apis.json) discoverability, agent-readiness, and operations. Pass your own `ruleset` — a score against rules you never adopted means little.

### `govern_estate` (~94 tokens)

PRO — Run the core governance checks across a WHOLE SET of internal APIs and roll them up: per-API score/grade/errors/PII, plus estate aggregates (avg score, grade distribution, APIs with PII/secrets) and a worst-first punch-list of what to fix. Pass `apis` ([{id, document}]) and your own `ruleset`. detail:true adds per-API dimensions.

### `deprecation_posture` (~34 tokens)

Report every deprecated operation and whether it actually announces a sunset. The ones that go quiet are the ones that break consumers.

### `validate_onboarding` (~34 tokens)

Validate an API Onboarding Descriptor (AID) against the api-commons schema and report which optional sections it fills in.

### `certify_api` (~43 tokens)

Issue a tamper-evident governance certificate attesting an API passed a named ruleset at a profile threshold. A SHA-256 fingerprint lets anyone re-verify it.

### `export_agent_rules` (~55 tokens)

Turn a governance ruleset into agent-native guidance — an AGENTS.md block, a system-prompt set, a per-rule remediation pack, and a digest — so agents follow the rules while authoring, not after linting.

### `audit_pipeline` (~44 tokens)

Score a repository's Spectral CI setup against an 8-point maturity rubric and return a prioritized punch-list. Pass a public `repo` ("owner/name") or `files`.

### `forge_mcp_tools` (~43 tokens)

From an OpenAPI, forge an MCP server design, per-operation tools, Agent Skills, an enriched OpenAPI, a server.json, and apis.json properties.

### `gate_agent_context` (~46 tokens)

Choose which operations and fields an API exposes to agents and emit a governed Tyk OpenAPI, an MCP tool manifest, and a Spectral ruleset with PII and secret checks.

### `apply_overlay` (~37 tokens)

Apply an OpenAPI Overlay to a document and report what each action matched. Use it for deprecation and migration choreography without forking the contract.

### `mock_payloads` (~24 tokens)

Generate an example request and success-response payload for every operation from its schema.

### `code_snippets` (~33 tokens)

Generate runnable curl, JavaScript, and Python samples for every operation, with path params filled in and a realistic body.

### `score_reusability` (~33 tokens)

Score how reusable a set of APIs is and detect duplication across them — the anti-sprawl view of an estate.

### `map_api_experience` (~50 tokens)

Map each REST operation to its MCP tool and Agent Skill — the API -> MCP -> Agent-Skill chain — from an APIs.json, with a free/paid coverage scorecard and a flow map.

### `generate_agent_descriptor` (~42 tokens)

Generate an API's llms.txt and an AGENTS.md consumption contract — base URL, auth, the operation table, deprecated operations to avoid, and usage rules.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-apievangelist-api-evangelist/mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 63
- 2026-08-02: 63
- 2026-08-01: 62
- 2026-07-31: 62
- 2026-07-30: 61
- 2026-07-29: 62
- 2026-07-28: 62
- 2026-07-27: 61
- 2026-07-26: 60

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/api-evangelist/apievangelist-aws
- Website: https://developer.apievangelist.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-apievangelist-api-evangelist/mcp/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-apievangelist-api-evangelist/mcp/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-apievangelist-api-evangelist/mcp