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FrontApp

Front is a customer service and communication platform that combines the efficiency of a help desk with the familiarity of email, giving teams a shared inbox across email, SMS, chat, and social channels. The Front Core API is a REST API (base https://api2.frontapp.com) exposing 340+ endpoints across conversations, messages, drafts, comments, contacts, accounts, inboxes, channels, tags, teammates, teams, knowledge bases, shifts, analytics, links, message templates, and signatures. It supports API-token and OAuth 2.0 authentication with 50+ granular scopes, cursor pagination, per-company rate limiting with standard headers, webhooks and application triggers for events, and an official hosted MCP server for AI agents. Front is a portfolio company of Battery Ventures.

agent aware

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 FrontApp the way a machine reads it — 9 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — FrontApp scores 48.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 40/100 (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 — 48.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 40/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile FrontApp

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for FrontApp. 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 1

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.

Front Core API

The Front Core API is a REST API over Front's shared-inbox platform. It exposes conversations, messages, drafts, comments, contacts, accounts, inboxes, channels, tags, teammates...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

Front's official hosted MCP server (open beta) exposes conversations, messages, comments, tags, contacts, accounts, and organization tools to MCP clients over Streamable HTTP wi...

MCP SERVER

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.

Frontapp Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

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 4

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.

Frontapp Authentication

http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Frontapp Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Frontapp Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Frontapp Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR

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.

Frontapp Scopes

57 scopes · authorizationCode

57 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Every other property we hold for FrontApp — 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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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