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HiBob

HiBob (Bob) is a modern HR platform for growing companies, providing core HRIS, employee data management, time off, performance, compensation, workflows, surveys, and people analytics. The Bob Public API enables programmatic access to employee data, time off, tasks, documents, and events via webhooks for HRIS integrations and people-data automation.

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 HiBob the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 — HiBob scores 29.5/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (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 — 29.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 12.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent aware
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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile HiBob

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for HiBob. 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 10

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.

Bob Public API

REST API for managing employee data, time off, tasks, documents, and lifecycle events in HiBob. Authentication uses HTTP Basic with an API service user ID and token (Base64-enco...

Bob Webhooks

Webhooks for receiving real-time notifications of employee lifecycle and data change events from HiBob to drive downstream automation.

HiBob Attendance API

The Attendance API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for attendance.

HiBob Documents API

The Documents API from HiBob — 3 operation(s) for documents.

HiBob Employee Tables API

The Employee Tables API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for employee tables.

HiBob Goals API

The Goals API from HiBob — 3 operation(s) for goals.

HiBob Hiring API

The Hiring API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for hiring.

HiBob Learning API

The Learning API from HiBob — 2 operation(s) for learning.

HiBob People API

The People API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for people.

HiBob Projects API

The Projects API from HiBob — 3 operation(s) for projects.

Scroll within the panel for all 10 ·

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).

Bob (HiBob) Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Hibob Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Hibob Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Hibob Agentic Access

28 operations · 23 acting

28 operations · 23 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for HiBob — 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.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

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 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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