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Credentially

Credentially is a UK-founded, healthcare-only onboarding and compliance automation platform used by NHS trusts, private providers, urgent care and clinical staffing agencies in the UK and US. It brings pre-employment checks, DBS and right-to-work validation, primary source verification, credentialing and continuous compliance monitoring onto one platform, cutting the platform-managed steps of onboarding clinical staff from an industry average of around 60 days to as little as 5. The Credentially Public API (OpenAPI 3.1) exposes profiles, placements, documents with OCR auto-fill, DBS checks, references, right-to-work status and compliance packages, with a companion Webhook API for state-change events.

agent native

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 Credentially the way a machine reads it — 27 machine-readable artifacts across 21 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 — Credentially scores 59.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 71/100 (agent native). 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 — 59.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Health 9.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 71/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Credentially

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Credentially. 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 21

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.

Credentially Compliance-packages API

Profile's compliance packages management proxy endpoints

Credentially DBS API

DBS check lookup and refresh endpoints

Credentially Dictionary API

Dictionary lookup endpoints for custom profile field values

Credentially Document Auto-fill API

Automated document data extraction and validation endpoints

Credentially Documents API

Document management proxy endpoints

Credentially Employee Placements API

Placement data scoped to a specific employee.

Credentially Jurisdictions API

Org-scoped jurisdictions a placement can reference (read-only).

Credentially Location Types API

Org-scoped classifications for placement locations (read-only).

Credentially Locations API

Facilities / sites where placements occur. Each belongs to one jurisdiction.

Credentially Meta API

API for fetching metadata

Credentially Organisation Groups API

Organisation group member management endpoints

Credentially Placement Notes API

Notes attached to a placement — free-text annotations.

Credentially Placement Roles API

Org-scoped roles a placement can reference (e.g. Band 6 RN).

Credentially Placements API

Placement lifecycle proxy endpoints — assignment of an employee to a location + role within the organisation.

Credentially Profile Groups API

Organisation groups proxy endpoints

Credentially Profiles API

Profile management proxy endpoints

Credentially References API

Profile reference status lookup endpoints

Credentially Right to Work API

Right to work status lookup endpoints

Credentially Stage Placements API

Placements scoped to a Kanban stage — board column reads + bulk-move.

Credentially Stages API

Kanban placement stages — per-org column definitions for the placements board.

Credentially Subscriptions API

API for managing webhook callback subscriptions

Scroll within the panel for all 21 ·

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.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 3

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.

Credentially Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Credentially Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Credentially Trust Center

ISO/IEC 27001:2022, Cyber Essentials Plus, NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (Standards Exceeded), NHS DTAC, GDPR, ICO registered

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.

Credentially Agentic Access

81 operations · 44 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

81 operations · 44 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Credentially — 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.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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