Department of the Interior
The U.S. Department of the Interior manages federal lands, water, wildlife, energy and mineral resources, and trust responsibilities to American Indian, Alaska Native, and insular communities. Interior bureaus - National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue - publish a number of public APIs and open-data portals.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Department of the Interior the way a machine reads it — 30 machine-readable artifacts across 14 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 the Interior scores 48.8/100 (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.
How we profile Department of the Interior
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Department of the Interior. 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 14
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.
DOI Open Data Catalog
Department-wide open-data catalog at data.doi.gov, including datasets from all Interior bureaus.
USFWS Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) API
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data on listed species under the Endangered Species Act and the National Wildlife Refuge System.
Bureau of Reclamation Water Data
Reclamation reservoir, dam, and water-operations data for the western United States.
ONRR Natural Resources Revenue Data
Office of Natural Resources Revenue datasets on royalty, rent, and bonus revenue from federal energy and mineral production.
Department of the Interior Alerts API
Park alerts and emergencies
Department of the Interior Articles API
News articles and releases
Department of the Interior Campgrounds API
Campground listings
Department of the Interior Counts API
Event count queries
Department of the Interior DailyValues API
Daily statistical values
Department of the Interior Events API
Park events
Department of the Interior InstantaneousValues API
Real-time instantaneous values
Department of the Interior Parks API
National parks
Department of the Interior Sites API
Water-monitoring sites
Department of the Interior VisitorCenters API
Visitor centers
Scroll within the panel for all 14 ·
Open Collections 3
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).
National Park Service (NPS) Data API
OPEN COLLECTIONUSGS Earthquake Hazards Program API
OPEN COLLECTIONUSGS Water Services API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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 The Interior 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.
Doi Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Department of the Interior API Rules
SPECTRALDepartment of the Interior API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
USGS Earthquake Feature
JSON SCHEMANational Park
JSON SCHEMAExamples 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.
Earthquake Example
EXAMPLEPark Example
EXAMPLESecurity 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Department of the Interior — 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 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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