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Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences (Colossal Biosciences) is a Dallas, Texas based genetic-engineering and de-extinction company founded in 2021 by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist Dr. George Church. It applies ancient-DNA sequencing, comparative genomics, CRISPR multiplex gene editing, cellular engineering and artificial-womb research to functional de-extinction and endangered-species conservation, with active programs on the woolly mammoth, thylacine, dodo, dire wolf, moa and bluebuck, plus the Colossal Biovault biobanking program and an EEHV vaccine effort for elephants. The company has raised roughly $435M through a $200M Series C in January 2025, spun out Form Bio (computational biology software) and Breaking (plastic degradation), and funds the nonprofit Colossal Foundation. Colossal publishes no product or developer API, no developer portal and no OpenAPI of its own; the machine-readable surface on colossal.com is the WordPress REST API (wp/v2) that serves the newsroom, science and species content, media library and site search as JSON, alongside a WordPress MCP Adapter endpoint that is present in the route index but authentication-gated. No first-party GitHub organization, SDK, package or /llms.txt was found.

agent aware

More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences the way a machine reads it — 24 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 — Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences scores 21.9/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 29/100 (agent aware). 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.

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 21.9/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 1.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.2 / 10
Regulatory · Health 4.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract derived 2.5 / 10
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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills derived 1.3 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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How we profile Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences. 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 10

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.

Colossal MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter)

A Model Context Protocol server endpoint advertised in the colossal.com WordPress REST route index under the "mcp" namespace and served at /wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-serve...

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Comments API

The Comments API from Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 2 operation(s) for comments.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Discovery API

The Discovery API from Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 5 operation(s) for discovery.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Media API

The Media API from Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 3 operation(s) for media.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Pages API

The Pages API from Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 2 operation(s) for pages.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Posts API

The Posts API from Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 2 operation(s) for posts.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Search API

The Search API from Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 1 operation(s) for search.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Settings API

The Settings API from Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 1 operation(s) for settings.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Taxonomy API

The Taxonomy API from Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 6 operation(s) for taxonomy.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Users API

The Users API from Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 3 operation(s) for users.

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Open Collections 10

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).

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

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.

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.

Colossal Laboratories Biosciences Agentic Access

67 operations · 43 acting

67 operations · 43 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences — 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.

Agent Surfaces 4

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

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 7

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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