API Evangelist MCP Server

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API Evangelist is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 57 tools.

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

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Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

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

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "api-evangelist": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "api-evangelist": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "api-evangelist": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 57

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

api

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 coverage, one altitude up.

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, and operations. Pass your own `ruleset` — a score against rules you never adopted means little.

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, and vocabulary. Filter with types (posts, areas, guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies, schema, properties, experiences, lifecycle, conversations, videos, papers, services, solutions, tools, timelines, vocabulary).

company

company_gaps

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

find_company_insights

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

get_company_insight

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

building

find_building_blocks

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).

get_building_block

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

insights

insights_adoption

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

insights_dimensions

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

validate

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` to run rules you own instead of the catalog — which is what you should do before gating on anything.

validate_onboarding

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

apply

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.

area

get_area

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

areas

find_areas

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

audit

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`.

certify

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.

classify

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.

code

code_snippets

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

contact

get_contact

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

conversation

get_conversation

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

conversations

find_conversations

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

deprecation

deprecation_posture

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

diff

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 granularity.

export

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 rules while authoring, not after linting.

feeds

get_feeds

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

forge

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

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 checks.

generate

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.

govern

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, 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.

governance

governance_report

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

guidance

get_guidance_section

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

guide

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 guidance, rules, policies, and standards, relevant papers and recent stories, plus the API Evangelist services that can help a team with this topic.

map

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 flow map.

mock

mock_payloads

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

overview

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, rules, policies, standards, strategies), papers, conversations, and the consulting services Kin Lane offers teams. Returns counts, entry points, and how to engage.

paper

get_paper

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

papers

find_papers

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

post

get_post

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

posts

find_posts

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

reconcile

reconcile_waivers

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.

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," across stories, areas, guidance, papers, conversations, and more.

score

score_reusability

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

service

get_service

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

services

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 with API Evangelist. (For the third-party vendor registry, use find_solutions.)

solution

get_solution

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

solutions

find_solutions

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

stats

get_stats

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

tag

get_tag

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

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	320 ms	8 min ago

API Evangelist — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can API Evangelist do?

It exposes 57 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: api_coverage, api_scorecard, apply_overlay, audit_pipeline, certify_api, classify_api_fields and 51 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is API Evangelist mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around api, company and insights. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is API Evangelist working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 370 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is API Evangelist still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect API Evangelist?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does API Evangelist need an API key?

No. API Evangelist completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 57 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is API Evangelist?

It answers our handshake in 370 ms on average, which is faster than 37% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.