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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides health care, benefits, and memorial services to U.S. military Veterans and their families. The VA API Platform at developer.va.gov publishes a structured catalog of APIs spanning Veteran identity confirmation, benefits claims, appeals, document intake, education, loan guaranty, facilities, forms, and HL7 FHIR clinical health data.

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 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) the way a machine reads it — 56 machine-readable artifacts across 30 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 Veterans Affairs (VA) scores 52.1/100 (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 — 52.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Regulatory · Health 10.8 / 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 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). 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 30

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.

VA Address Validation API

Verify and standardize U.S. and international addresses for Veterans and their families.

VA Benefits Documents API

Retrieve VA-generated benefit documents (decision letters, award letters, certifications) for Veterans.

VA Benefits Reference Data API

Reference data lookups for benefits-claim form fields (countries, states, disabilities, treatment centers, etc.).

VA Community Care Eligibility API

Determine whether a Veteran is eligible for community-care services under VA referral programs.

VA Decision Reviews API

Submit supplemental claims, higher-level reviews, and Notices of Disagreement under appeals modernization.

VA Direct Deposit Management API

Read and update a Veteran's direct-deposit information for benefit payments.

VA Education Benefits API

Submit and track GI Bill and VA education benefit applications and entitlement data.

VA Loan Guaranty API

Access VA-guaranteed home-loan eligibility, certificates of eligibility (COE), and loan data.

VA Loan Review API

Lender-facing API for review, conditions, and modification of VA-guaranteed home loans.

VA Guaranty Remittance API

Submit and track guaranty remittance payments for VA-guaranteed loans.

VA Letter Generator API

Generate official VA letters (e.g. service verification, benefit summary) on demand.

VA Patient Health API (FHIR)

Veteran-authorized SMART-on-FHIR API exposing the patient's own health record.

VA Veteran Service History and Eligibility API

Retrieve a Veteran's service history and eligibility for VA programs.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) AllergyIntolerance API

The AllergyIntolerance API from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — 1 operation(s) for allergyintolerance.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Claims API

Veteran benefits claims operations

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Condition API

The Condition API from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — 1 operation(s) for condition.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Facilities API

Search and retrieve VA facilities

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Forms API

Search and retrieve VA forms

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) MedicationRequest API

The MedicationRequest API from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — 1 operation(s) for medicationrequest.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) NearbyFacilities API

Locate facilities near a given address or coordinates

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Observation API

The Observation API from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — 1 operation(s) for observation.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Patient API

The Patient API from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — 1 operation(s) for patient.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Power of Attorney API

Representation requests and POA management

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Services API

Health, benefits, and other services offered at facilities

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans API

The Veterans API from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — 1 operation(s) for veterans.

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Open Collections 7

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).

VA Appeals Status API

OPEN COLLECTION

VA Benefits Claims API

OPEN COLLECTION

VA Benefits Intake API

OPEN COLLECTION

VA Facilities API

OPEN COLLECTION

VA Forms API

OPEN COLLECTION

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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.

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.

Va Context

0 classes · 7 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.

JSON Schema 5

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.

VA Appeal

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VA Benefits Claim

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VA Facility

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VA Form

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Veteran Confirmation

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

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.

Claim Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Facility Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Form Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

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.

Department Of Veterans Affairs Authentication

apiKey/http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Department Of Veterans Affairs Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Department Of Veterans Affairs Vulnerability Disclosure

Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

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.

Department Of Veterans Affairs Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode

3 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.

Department Of Veterans Affairs Agentic Access

21 operations · 5 acting

21 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

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

Company 2

The organization behind the API

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/department-of-veterans-affairs · machine-readable index on apis.io