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Flic

Flic (Shortcut Labs) makes wireless smart buttons and dials — the Flic Button, Flic Twist, Flic Duo, and the Flic Hub — that let people control smart-home devices, lights, music, and cloud services with a single press. Its developer surface is SDK- and protocol-centric rather than a REST API: first-party flic2lib SDKs for iOS, Android, C, Linux, and Windows implement the open Flic 2 Bluetooth protocol, the Flic Hub SDK runs JavaScript modules (MQTT, OSC) on the hub, and "Cloud Buttons" deliver physical button presses to any HTTP endpoint as a signed-JWT webhook. Flic is backed by 500 Global and lists 1,000+ compatible devices and services across smart home, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and logistics.

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 Flic the way a machine reads it — 3 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — Flic scores 28.8/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 15/100 (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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 28.8/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Flic

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

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 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.

Flic Authentication

jwt-signed-webhook/ble-pairing · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Flic Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Flic — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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