Gardin
Gardin is a UK-based agritech company (Abingdon, Oxfordshire) whose product, Gardin Pulse, is a real-time plant-level crop intelligence platform built on an optical sensor that measures chlorophyll fluorescence to assess photosynthetic efficiency. The sensors detect crop stress weeks before visible symptoms appear, letting growers optimise lighting, irrigation and climate control across glasshouses, polytunnels and indoor farms. Gardin exposes this plant-health data to growers and developers through the Gardin API — a set of OAuth2 client-credentials-secured HTTP services covering sensor/device management, an asynchronous bulk Query API for chlorophyll-fluorescence and Gardin-indices data, and a Notification API that delivers real-time plant alerts over webhooks and websockets. Gardin also integrates plant feedback into leading climate-control systems including Priva, Ridder and LetsGrow.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Gardin the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — Gardin scores 35.7/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Gardin
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Gardin. 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 3
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.
Gardin Query API
Asynchronous bulk data API for downloading chlorophyll-fluorescence (ChF) and Gardin-indices data. Submit a query, poll its status, then download the result set as CSV. Supports...
Gardin Sensor Management API
Device registry and control API to list and find sensors, group devices, run and stop measurement / pick-poses jobs, enable or disable schedules, and check command job status.
Gardin Notification API
Real-time plant-health alert delivery over webhooks and websockets. Emits PLANT_CRITICAL_ALERT, PLANT_STRESS_ALERT, PLANT_LIGHT_ALERT and PLANT_RECOVERY_ALERT events (RAISED / C...
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.
gardin-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent 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.
Gardin Notification Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity 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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Gardin — 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 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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