Department of State
The U.S. Department of State leads U.S. foreign policy, conducts diplomacy with foreign governments, issues U.S. passports and visas, supports U.S. citizens abroad, and publishes country-specific information and travel advisories. The Department does not currently operate a unified developer portal; instead, integrators work from public RSS feeds, web pages, the Foreign Affairs Manual, and references to internal systems (ConsularLookout, eCASE) that are not publicly accessible.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Department of State the way a machine reads it — 15 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 — Department of State scores 28.4/100 (emerging), 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Department of State
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Department of State. 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 9
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.
State Department Travel Advisories
Country-by-country travel advisories (Levels 1-4) issued by the Bureau of Consular Affairs, with RSS distribution.
Country Information Pages
Per-country pages covering entry/exit requirements, local laws, safety, health, and U.S. embassy contacts.
Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP)
Voluntary enrollment system for U.S. citizens traveling or residing abroad to receive embassy alerts.
U.S. Visa Information
Reference information on nonimmigrant and immigrant visa categories, processing times, and reciprocity schedules.
U.S. Passport Services
Public-facing passport application, renewal, and status-check resources from the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) and Handbook (FAH)
Department-wide policy and procedural manuals issued by the Office of Directives Management.
ConsularLookout (CLASS)
Government-internal name-check system used during visa and passport adjudication. Referenced here for completeness; no public API.
eCASE Enterprise Case Management
State Department-wide enterprise case-management platform. Internal system; referenced here for organizational completeness.
State Department Open Data on data.gov
Public datasets published by the State Department through the federal open-data catalog.
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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.
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.
Department Of State Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
State Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Department of State API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Department of State — 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
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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