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Ford

Ford is a multinational automotive company that designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of vehicles, including cars, trucks, and SUVs.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Ford the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — Ford scores 35.5/100 (thin), 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 — 35.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.3 / 10
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 Ford

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Ford. 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 8

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.

FordConnect

FordConnect allows to send vehicle commands (e.g., lock, unlock, etc.) and request vehicle information (e.g., fuel range, tire pressure, etc.) to Ford and Lincoln vehicles.

Ford WLTP Emissions

With this API, authorized external parties can retrieve WLTP values based on a specific vehicle configuration.

Ford Charging API

The Charging API from Ford — 4 operation(s) for charging.

Ford Commands API

The Commands API from Ford — 7 operation(s) for commands.

Ford Images API

The Images API from Ford — 2 operation(s) for images.

Ford OAuth API

The OAuth API from Ford — 1 operation(s) for oauth.

Ford Status API

The Status API from Ford — 2 operation(s) for status.

Ford Vehicles API

The Vehicles API from Ford — 2 operation(s) for vehicles.

Scroll within the panel for all 8 ·

Open Collections 1

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).

FordConnect API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Ford Motor GraphQL Schema

This conceptual GraphQL schema covers the Ford Motor Company connected vehicle and developer API surface, based on the Ford Developer Portal (https://developer.ford.com/). It mo...

GRAPHQL

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.

Ford Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

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.

Ford Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

Ford Finops

FINOPS

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.

Ford Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Ford Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

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.

Ford Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 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.

Ford Agentic Access

18 operations · 10 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

18 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Ford — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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