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server api-evangelist 1.2.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 67 tools
Tools observed via MCP handshake
get_overview — START HERE. What the API Evangelist network offers: sixteen years of API research as searchable stories, 77 topic areas, governance building blocks (guidance, r
guide_topic — PRO — Curated guide to one API topic (e.g. "gateways", "api governance", "discovery", "agents"). Bundles the matching topic area (with related areas), top guida
find_services — The services API Evangelist offers teams and customers — API strategy, governance, discovery, and evangelism engagements by Kin Lane. The front door to working
get_service — Full detail for one service offering by slug; include=["content"] inlines the full pitch.
find_solutions — The solutions registry — 740+ third-party API services and tools (gateways, portals, testing, monitoring, …) ranked by adoption across the companies API Evangel
get_solution — One solution from the vendor registry by slug, with its website and adoption count.
find_tools — The open-source tooling registry — 400+ tools in use across the companies API Evangelist tracks, each with adoption counts and technology-radar placement.
get_tool — One tool from the tooling registry by slug, with its website, adoption count, and radar ring.
get_contact — Every way to reach API Evangelist — email, contact form, newsletter, GitHub, social channels, and postal mail.
search_api_evangelist — Unified search across the whole network: 5k+ stories, 77 topic areas, 2.5k governance building blocks, papers, conversations, videos, tools, timelines, services
find_posts — Search or browse 5,100+ API Evangelist stories (2010–present); filter by year or tags.
get_post — One story by slug (YYYY-MM-DD-slug); include=["content"] returns the full markdown body.
find_areas — The 77 focused topic areas of the network (agents, gateways, security, …), each a subsite with its own catalog.
get_area
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No long description beyond the summary.
kind ← Official MCP Registry
name ← Official MCP Registry
repoUrl ← Official MCP Registry
summary ← Official MCP Registry
version ← Official MCP Registry
description ← Official MCP Registry
homepageUrl ← Official MCP Registry
publisherName ← Official MCP Registry
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Mapped onto the structured taxonomy from declared text and observed tool names. Confidence shown for derived entries.
5 h ago · declared · summary → "Sixteen years of API research as MCP tools — stories, areas, governance blocks & services"
5 h ago · declared · description → "Sixteen years of API research as MCP tools — stories, areas, governance blocks & services"
5 h ago · declared · publisherName → "com.apievangelist"
5 h ago · declared · homepageUrl → "https://developer.apievangelist.com"
5 h ago · declared · repoUrl → "https://github.com/api-evangelist/apievangelist-aws"
5 h ago · declared · version → "1.0.0"
5 h ago · declared · protocols → ["mcp"]
— One topic area with its related-area graph resolved — walk the network from here.
find_building_blocks — Search the governance building blocks by type: guidance (177), rules (617), policies (283), standards (432), strategies (75), schema (11), properties (790), exp
get_building_block — One building block by type + slug; include=["content"] returns the full body.
find_conversations — API Evangelist Conversations — recorded discussions with API practitioners (guest, company, YouTube/SoundCloud links).
get_conversation — One conversation with guest detail and media links; include=["content"] returns the writeup.
find_papers — API Evangelist papers — single-PDF deep dives on one practice or topic, with outlines.
get_paper — One paper with its full outline and purchase/landing URL.
find_videos — The API Evangelist video library — interviews and discussions from across the API space, searchable by transcript.
get_video — One video by slug with its YouTube id; include=["content"] returns the full transcript.
get_timeline — One of the four research timelines in chronological order: api (the moments that shaped web APIs), resources (which digital resources became APIs and when), ind
get_guidance_section — One editorial guidance section as a list: history, technology, business, politics, governance, or evangelism — the six lenses API Evangelist organizes guidance
find_vocabulary — The API vocabulary — thousands of resources, actions, personas, domains, schemas, and tags extracted from the API landscape. Filter by category.
get_feeds — The static machine-readable feeds every network site publishes (JSON, APIs.json, zero-auth) — the no-key alternative to this API.
find_tags — 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 o
get_tag — One tag with its per-type counts and everything it labels across the whole network (stories, areas, guidance, papers, …). Filter with types.
find_related — 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
get_stats — PRO — catalog intelligence: per-type counts, stories-per-year, and the top tags by reach across the network.
find_company_insights — Browse profiled companies (Fortune 1000 + API providers) by name; ranked by technology-readiness signal. Free.
insights_dimensions — Cross-section ranking of the 40 tracked investment dimensions (AI, cloud, governance, …) by company signal. Free.
insights_adoption — Services, tools, or standards ranked by how many companies adopt them. Free.
get_company_insight — Full demand-side profile for one company: 40-dimension readiness, adopted stack, per-quarter history. Pro.
company_gaps — A company's weakest investment dimensions — where it is thin. Pro.
company_dimensions — PRO — a company's investment dimensions, each read AGAINST the measured cohort: the cohort median, mean and max, this company's rank and percentile, and an inde
company_peers — PRO — the companies most comparable to this one (same sub-sector where the data supports it, same industry otherwise), each with signal totals and top dimension
company_whitespace — PRO — what this company's peers run that it does not, ranked by how many peers carry it. The opening list for a vendor selling into the account.
company_signals — PRO — the company's adopted stack entity by entity (services, tools, standards), each with how many companies across the cohort carry it and its radar ring.
find_entities — Browse the demand-side entity catalog — every service, tool and standard companies are measured against, ranked by how many carry it. Free. This is the left-han
entity_demand — PRO — THE INVERSION. Every other insights tool runs company -> stack; this one runs stack -> companies: which companies show demand for a given service, tool or
find_measured_standards — The standards bodies API Evangelist has actually MEASURED — repositories, maturity, governance, coalition. Distinct from find_standards, which searches 613 cata
standard_adoption — How far a standards body actually got: repositories published, how many graduated past unclassified and the resulting share, release cadence, contributor count
standard_coalition — Who is actually behind a standard: the governing bodies and their membership, the working groups, the member companies, and the named people. Carries the caveat
standard_repositories — Every repository a standards body publishes, with maturity, stars, forks, open issues and archived status. Free.
validate_api — 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`
api_coverage — 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 c
reconcile_waivers — Reconcile a waivers file against lint output: suppress sanctioned violations and surface the expired, stale, and expiring ones. Returns the effective failing se
governance_report — Turn Spectral findings into a self-contained HTML governance report — severity summary, grouped by rule, framed toward progress.
verify_certificate — 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 — 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 — Compare two OpenAPI versions and classify every change as breaking, non-breaking, or an addition — at path, operation, parameter, request-body, and response gra
api_scorecard — Score an API's maturity 0-100 with a letter grade across design, governance coverage, documentation, and (from an apis.json) discoverability, agent-readiness, a
govern_estate — 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, gr
deprecation_posture — Report every deprecated operation and whether it actually announces a sunset. The ones that go quiet are the ones that break consumers.
validate_onboarding — Validate an API Onboarding Descriptor (AID) against the api-commons schema and report which optional sections it fills in.
certify_api — 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 — 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
audit_pipeline — 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 — 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 — 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 ch
apply_overlay — 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 — Generate an example request and success-response payload for every operation from its schema.
code_snippets — Generate runnable curl, JavaScript, and Python samples for every operation, with path params filled in and a realistic body.
score_reusability — Score how reusable a set of APIs is and detect duplication across them — the anti-sprawl view of an estate.
map_api_experience — 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 flo
generate_agent_descriptor — 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.