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Airgas

Airgas is a leading supplier of industrial, medical, and specialty gases as well as welding equipment, safety products, and MRO supplies. An Air Liquide company, Airgas serves aerospace, construction, food and beverage, healthcare, metal fabrication, and energy industries. Airgas provides B2B e-business solutions including online ordering, supply chain management, and digital proof-of-delivery capabilities.

human only

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Airgas the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Airgas scores 39.0/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). 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 — 39.0/100 · thin
Contract Quality 5.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Regulatory · Health 3.6 / 15
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 Airgas

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Airgas. 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 1

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.

Airgas

Airgas provides industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related products. The Airgas online platform supports B2B ordering, account management, order tracking, digital proo...

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.

Airgas Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Airgas Rate Limits

5 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.

Features 7

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Online Ordering

B2B online ordering portal for industrial gases, welding, and safety products.

Account Management

Customer account management with order history and invoicing.

Mobile Reorder App

Mobile application for reordering supplies from previous orders.

Supply Chain Solutions

Total gas management and supply chain optimization for industrial customers.

Digital Proof of Delivery

Digital POD documents for order verification and record keeping.

Total Gas Management

Comprehensive gas supply management for industrial and healthcare operations.

Safety Product Line

Full line of safety equipment, PPE, and compliance products.

Scroll within the panel for all 7 ·

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.

Airgas Context

5 classes · 16 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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.

Airgas API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

Account

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Product

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

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.

Airgas Account Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Airgas Order Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Airgas Product Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

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.

Airgas Account Example

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Airgas Order Example

9 fields

EXAMPLE

Airgas Product Example

10 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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.

Airgas Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Use Cases 6

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Industrial Gas Supply

Supply of oxygen, argon, nitrogen, acetylene, and specialty gases for manufacturing.

Medical Gas Supply

Medical-grade oxygen, nitrous oxide, and specialty gases for healthcare facilities.

Welding Operations

Welding gas blends, equipment, and consumables for fabrication shops.

Food & Beverage

Food-grade CO2, nitrogen, and other gases for food processing and packaging.

Aerospace

Specialty gases and gas management for aerospace manufacturing.

Safety Compliance

PPE, fall protection, and safety equipment for workplace compliance.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Airgas — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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