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acuity-brands

Acuity Brands is a provider of lighting, lighting controls, building management systems, and location-aware applications for commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential markets.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles acuity-brands the way a machine reads it — 44 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — acuity-brands scores 45.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 45.8/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 4.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile acuity-brands

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for acuity-brands. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 4

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

acuity-brands Catalog API

Product catalog and item details

acuity-brands Inventory API

Product inventory and availability

acuity-brands Orders API

Order status and shipment tracking

acuity-brands Webpages API

Web content and product page data

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Acuity Brands API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Acuity Brands Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Acuity Brands Context

50 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

acuity-brands API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

acuity-brands API Rules

29 rules · 9 errors · 17 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 10

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CatalogItemList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogItem

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryItem

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShipmentList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Shipment

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebpageList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Webpage

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scroll within the panel for all 10 ·

JSON Structure 10

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Acuity Brands Catalog Item List Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Acuity Brands Catalog Item Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Acuity Brands Inventory Item Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Acuity Brands Inventory List Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Acuity Brands Order List Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Acuity Brands Order Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Acuity Brands Shipment List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Acuity Brands Shipment Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Acuity Brands Webpage List Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Acuity Brands Webpage Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Scroll within the panel for all 10 ·

Examples 10

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scroll within the panel for all 10 ·

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Acuity Brands Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Acuity Brands Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Acuity Brands Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for acuity-brands — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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