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Anvil

Anvil is a PDF infrastructure platform providing REST and GraphQL APIs for filling PDF templates with JSON data, generating PDFs from HTML or Markdown, collecting e-signatures (Etch), building web forms, and extracting data from documents via OCR and Document AI. Designed for developers embedding paperwork automation into applications across HR, insurance, financial services, and legal workflows.

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 Anvil the way a machine reads it — 19 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — Anvil scores 56.2/100 (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 — 56.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 Anvil

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Anvil. 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 6

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.

Anvil Etch E-Sign API

Embed white-labeled e-signature collection into applications. Create e-sign packets, route documents to multiple signers, and receive webhook notifications on completion. Suppor...

Anvil GraphQL API

The primary query and mutation interface for Anvil. Covers e-sign packets, workflows, PDF operations, webforms, and document AI. The complete schema is downloadable via GET http...

Anvil Document AI & OCR API

Extract structured data from uploaded PDF documents using AI-powered OCR, automatic field detection, box finding, and schema mapping. Accelerates workflow building by inferring ...

Anvil Webhooks

Event-driven notifications for Anvil workflow events. Receive HTTP POST callbacks when e-sign packets are completed, web forms are submitted, workflow steps are finished, and mo...

Anvil Fill API

The Fill API from Anvil — 1 operation(s) for fill.

Anvil Generate Pdf API

The Generate Pdf API from Anvil — 1 operation(s) for generate pdf.

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Anvil GraphQL API

The Anvil GraphQL API is the primary query and mutation interface for the Anvil platform. It exposes the full range of Anvil's document automation capabilities, including e-sign...

GRAPHQL

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.

Anvil Plans Pricing

4 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.

Anvil 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.

Anvil Finops

FINOPS

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.

Anvil Context

4 classes · 24 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.

Anvil API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Anvil Fill PDF Request

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Anvil Generate PDF Request

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

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.

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.

Anvil Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Anvil Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · 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.

Anvil Agentic Access

2 operations · 2 acting

2 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Anvil — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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