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Kno2

Kno2 provides Interoperability as a Service for healthcare - a single Communication API to SEND, RECEIVE, and FIND patient information across the healthcare ecosystem. One connection reaches Direct Secure Messaging, clinical document exchange, HL7 FHIR resources, HL7 V2.x, cloud fax, and national record location and retrieval through Kno2's private network, Carequality, eHealth Exchange, and TEFCA (Kno2 is a federally designated QHIN). API access is partner/enterprise gated - integrators are provisioned a per-subscription tenant host with OAuth2 client-credentials keys and an IP allowlist; a staging sandbox is available through the Kno2 Developer Program.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Kno2 the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 7 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 — Kno2 scores 37.7/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 — 37.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Health 3.9 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
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 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Kno2

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kno2. 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 7

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.

Kno2 FHIR API

HL7 FHIR (DSTU3/R4) resource query and retrieval at scale, including USCDI data classes and patient demographic search, brokered through Kno2's gateway to Carequality and nation...

Kno2 Patient Record Query API

On-demand patient record location and retrieval across national networks - Kno2's private network, Carequality, eHealth Exchange, and TEFCA (Kno2 is a designated QHIN). Find a p...

Kno2 Attachments API

Upload, retrieve, and mark clinical document attachments.

Kno2 Authentication API

OAuth2 client-credentials token issuance.

Kno2 Directory API

Validate Direct addresses and list document types.

Kno2 Intake API

RECEIVE surface - search, retrieve, and process inbound messages.

Kno2 Messaging API

SEND surface - draft, populate, attach, and send messages.

Scroll within the panel for all 7 ·

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).

Kno2 Communication API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Kno2 Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

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.

Kno2 Rate Limits

3 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.

Kno2 Finops

FINOPS

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.

Kno2 Authentication

oauth2/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Kno2 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.

Kno2 Agentic Access

12 operations · 7 acting

12 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Kno2 — 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 1

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 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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