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Cardiff University

Cardiff University is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, ranked #186 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. The university operates a public developer portal at data.cardiff.ac.uk (powered by WSO2 API Manager) exposing a small set of RESTful institutional APIs covering courses, modules, lookups, and research publications. The APIs are OAuth2-secured: integration requires creating an application and generating consumer keys and access tokens, with external developer access granted on request by emailing [email protected]. The gateway is hosted at api.data.cardiff.ac.uk.

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 Cardiff University the way a machine reads it — 37 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 — Cardiff University scores 47.1/100 (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 — 47.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 8.8 / 15
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 Cardiff University

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cardiff University. 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 16

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.

Cardiff University Assessments API

The Assessments API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for assessments.

Cardiff University Clearing Adjustments API

The Clearing Adjustments API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for clearing adjustments.

Cardiff University Courses API

The Courses API from Cardiff University — 4 operation(s) for courses.

Cardiff University * API

The * API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for *.

Cardiff University Groups API

The Groups API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for groups.

Cardiff University Levels API

The Levels API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for levels.

Cardiff University Modules API

The Modules API from Cardiff University — 5 operation(s) for modules.

Cardiff University Occurrences API

The Occurrences API from Cardiff University — 4 operation(s) for occurrences.

Cardiff University Publications API

The Publications API from Cardiff University — 2 operation(s) for publications.

Cardiff University Qualifications API

The Qualifications API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for qualifications.

Cardiff University Rollover API

The Rollover API from Cardiff University — 2 operation(s) for rollover.

Cardiff University Schools API

The Schools API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for schools.

Cardiff University Semesters API

The Semesters API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for semesters.

Cardiff University Subjects API

The Subjects API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for subjects.

Cardiff University Test API

The Test API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for test.

Cardiff University Years API

The Years API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for years.

Scroll within the panel for all 16 ·

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.

Cardiff Plans Pricing

2 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.

Cardiff Rate Limits

1 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.

Cardiff Context

5 classes · 4 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.

Cardiff University API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Cardiff University API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

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.

Course

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Meta

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Module

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Publication

31 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.

Cardiff Course Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cardiff Module Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cardiff Publication Structure

16 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

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.

Cardiff Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cardiff Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Cardiff Scopes

2 scopes · implicit

2 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Cardiff Agentic Access

26 operations

26 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Cardiff University — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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