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ID.me

ID.me is a digital identity network that provides NIST 800-63-3 IAL2/AAL2 identity verification, single sign-on, and group affiliation (community) verification for government agencies, healthcare, and commercial partners. For developers, ID.me exposes an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 identity provider (authorization code flow with PKCE, plus SAML 2.0 federation), a REST Services API for telecom and document verification, an Applications API, a Document Passback API, and a Shared Signals Framework (SSF) event stream for fraud and verification signals. Native iOS and Android SDKs, a button widget, conversion tracking, and multi-language sample code round out the developer surface, letting relying parties add strong identity proofing and attribute exchange to any application or IAM platform (Okta, Keycloak, Entra, PingOne, AWS Cognito).

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 ID.me the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 — ID.me scores 45.2/100 (developing), 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 — 45.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 12.4 / 15
Agent readiness — 41/100 · 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 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile ID.me

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ID.me. 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 2

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.

ID.me OpenID Connect & OAuth 2.0 API

ID.me's OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 identity provider. Supports the authorization code flow (with PKCE), refresh tokens, encrypted ID tokens and userinfo, and returns verified ...

ID.me Services API

ID.me's REST Services API for orchestrating identity verification: create and manage verifications, verify phone possession and identity via telecom endpoints, and verify identi...

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.

idme-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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 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.

Idme Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Idme Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Idme 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.

Idme Scopes

11 scopes · authorizationCode

11 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Every other property we hold for ID.me — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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