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Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager is a tag management system that allows you to quickly and easily update measurement codes and related code fragments collectively known as tags on your website or mobile app.

agent native

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Google Tag Manager the way a machine reads it — 171 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 — Google Tag Manager scores 71.6/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 71/100 (agent native). 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 — 71.6/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 71/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Google Tag Manager

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Google Tag Manager. 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 9

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.

Google Tag Manager Server-side Tagging API

The Server-side Tagging API provides APIs for building custom tags, clients, and variables that run in a server-side container, enabling server-to-server data collection and pro...

Google Tag Manager Accounts API

Operations for managing Google Tag Manager accounts.

Google Tag Manager Containers API

Operations for managing containers within a Google Tag Manager account.

Google Tag Manager Tagmanager API

The Tagmanager API from Google Tag Manager — 3 operation(s) for tagmanager.

Google Tag Manager Triggers API

Operations for managing triggers within a workspace that control when tags fire.

Google Tag Manager User Permissions API

Operations for managing user permissions on Google Tag Manager accounts.

Google Tag Manager Variables API

Operations for managing variables within a workspace that provide dynamic values to tags and triggers.

Google Tag Manager Versions API

Operations for managing container versions, including publishing and rollback.

Google Tag Manager Workspaces API

Operations for managing workspaces within a container, including version creation and conflict resolution.

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Postman Collections 1

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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).

Google Tag Manager API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 12

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Google Tag Manager Audit Container Versions

List a container's version headers, then fetch the newest one in full.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Bootstrap a Live Container

Create a container and workspace, cut a baseline version, and publish it.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Build and Publish a Tag End to End

Workspace, trigger, tag, version, and publish in a single release flow.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Grant a User Permission

List account user permissions, then add a new user when not present.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Inspect the Live Container Version

Resolve a container's live version, then fetch its full definition.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager List and Get a Workspace

List the workspaces in a container, then fetch the first one in detail.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Provision a Tagged Container

Create a container, open a workspace in it, and add a first tag.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Safely Update a Tag

Read a tag for its fingerprint, then update it with optimistic concurrency.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Sync and Version a Workspace

Check status, sync a workspace to the latest version, then cut a version.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Wire a Trigger-Fired Tag

Create a workspace, create a trigger, then create a tag that fires on it.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Build a Variable-Backed Tag

Create a workspace, create a variable, then create a tag that consumes it.

ARAZZO

Google Tag Manager Version and Publish a Workspace

Freeze a workspace into a container version and publish it live.

ARAZZO

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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.

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.

Google Tag Manager Rate Limits

5 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.

Features 10

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Account Management

List and manage Google Tag Manager accounts with full access control.

Container Management

Create, update, delete, and configure containers for web, mobile, and server-side tagging.

Workspace Management

Create and manage workspaces for collaborative tag development with conflict resolution.

Tag Configuration

Create, update, delete, and revert tags with full parameter and firing trigger configuration.

Trigger Configuration

Define triggers that control when and how tags fire based on events and conditions.

Variable Management

Create and manage variables that provide dynamic values to tags and triggers.

Version Control

Create, publish, and manage container versions with rollback capabilities.

User Permissions

Manage user access and permissions at the account and container level.

Server-Side Tagging

Build custom server-side tags, clients, and variables for server-to-server data collection.

Data Layer

Structured data layer for passing information between your website and Tag Manager.

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Semantic Vocabularies 2

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.

Google Tag Manager Context

8 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Google Tag Manager V2 Context

0 classes · 0 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.

Google Tag Manager API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Google Tag Manager API Rules

15 rules · 8 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 39

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.

Google Tag Manager Container

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AccountAccess

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AccountFeatures

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Account

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Condition

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConsentSettings

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerAccess

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerFeatures

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Container

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerVersionHeader

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerVersion

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateContainerVersionResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Entity

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FormatValue

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetWorkspaceStatusResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListAccountsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListContainerVersionsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListContainersResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTagsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTriggersResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListUserPermissionsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListVariablesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListWorkspacesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MergeConflict

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Parameter

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PublishContainerVersionResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RevertTagResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RevertTriggerResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RevertVariableResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SetupTag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SyncStatus

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SyncWorkspaceResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TeardownTag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Trigger

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserPermission

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Variable

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Workspace

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 38

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Google Tag Manager V2 Account Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Google Tag Manager V2 Condition Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Google Tag Manager V2 Container Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Google Tag Manager V2 Entity Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Google Tag Manager V2 Parameter Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Google Tag Manager V2 Setup Tag Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Google Tag Manager V2 Tag Structure

22 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Google Tag Manager V2 Trigger Structure

15 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Google Tag Manager V2 Variable Structure

16 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Google Tag Manager V2 Workspace Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 38

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.

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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.

Google Tag Manager Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Google Tag Manager Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Tag Manager Vulnerability Disclosure

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.

Google Tag Manager Scopes

7 scopes · authorizationCode

7 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.

Google Tag Manager Agentic Access

44 operations · 26 acting

44 operations · 26 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Marketing Tag Deployment

Deploy and manage marketing and analytics tags without modifying website code.

Conversion Tracking

Track conversions across multiple advertising platforms with centralized tag management.

Privacy Compliance

Implement consent-based tag firing and data collection policies for GDPR and CCPA compliance.

A/B Testing

Deploy and manage A/B testing tags and experiment configurations across web properties.

Server-Side Data Collection

Process data server-side for improved performance, accuracy, and privacy compliance.

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Google Analytics

Native integration with Google Analytics 4 for event tracking and measurement.

Google Ads

Deploy Google Ads conversion tracking and remarketing tags with built-in templates.

Google Marketing Platform

Integrate with Campaign Manager, Display & Video 360, and Search Ads 360.

Facebook Pixel

Deploy and manage Facebook Pixel tracking with community template support.

Consent Management Platforms

Integrate with consent management platforms for privacy-compliant tag firing.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Google Tag Manager — 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 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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