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Knock

Knock is notifications infrastructure as a service — a product and customer messaging platform you use to power transactional, lifecycle, broadcast, and in-product messaging across email, SMS, push, in-app, in-app guides, chat (Slack / Discord / Teams / WhatsApp), and outbound webhooks. Knock exposes two REST surfaces — a runtime API (api.knock.app) for triggering workflows and managing recipients/messages, and a Management API (control.knock.app) for resource CRUD — together with official SDKs in Node, Python, Ruby, Go, Elixir, Java, .NET, PHP and mobile (Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Expo); a CLI; a remote MCP server; an agent toolkit for OpenAI / AI SDK / Langchain / Mastra; outbound webhooks; AI agent workflow steps; SlackKit and TeamsKit; and a git-style environment / branch / commit model for safe promotion of notification resources.

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 Knock the way a machine reads it — 124 machine-readable artifacts across 35 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 — Knock scores 72.6/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 92/100 (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 — 72.6/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 16.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.8 / 13
Governance 7.9 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 92/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Knock

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Knock. 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 35

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.

Knock Outbound Webhooks

Outbound webhooks fire message lifecycle (sent, delivered, seen, read, interacted, archived, link_clicked, bounced, undelivered) and environment-change (workflow / email_layout ...

Knock Accounts API

Resources for managing your Knock account.

Knock API keys API

The API keys API from Knock — 1 operation(s) for api keys.

Knock Audiences API

The Audiences API from Knock — 4 operation(s) for audiences.

Knock Branches API

Branches in Knock are a way to isolate changes to your Knock resources.

Knock Broadcasts API

The Broadcasts API from Knock — 5 operation(s) for broadcasts.

Knock Bulk operations API

The Bulk operations API from Knock — 12 operation(s) for bulk operations.

Knock Channel data API

The Channel data API from Knock — 2 operation(s) for channel data.

Knock Channel Groups API

The Channel Groups API from Knock — 2 operation(s) for channel groups.

Knock Channels API

The Channels API from Knock — 2 operation(s) for channels.

Knock Commits API

Commits are versioned changes to resources.

Knock Email layouts API

Email layouts wrap your email templates and provide a consistent look and feel.

Knock Environments API

Environments are isolated instances of your account that map to your infrastructure.

Knock Feeds API

The Feeds API from Knock — 2 operation(s) for feeds.

Knock Guides API

Guides let you define in-app guides that can be displayed to users based on priority and other conditions.

Knock Integrations API

The Integrations API from Knock — 2 operation(s) for integrations.

Knock Members API

The Members API from Knock — 2 operation(s) for members.

Knock Message types API

A message type allows you to specify an in-app schema that defines the fields available for your in-app notifications.

Knock Messages API

The Messages API from Knock — 24 operation(s) for messages.

Knock Microsoft Teams API

The Microsoft Teams API from Knock — 4 operation(s) for microsoft teams.

Knock Objects API

The Objects API from Knock — 19 operation(s) for objects.

Knock Partials API

Partials allow you to reuse content across templates.

Knock Preferences API

The Preferences API from Knock — 16 operation(s) for preferences.

Knock Providers API

The Providers API from Knock — 7 operation(s) for providers.

Knock Schedules API

The Schedules API from Knock — 3 operation(s) for schedules.

Knock Slack API

The Slack API from Knock — 3 operation(s) for slack.

Knock Subscriptions API

The Subscriptions API from Knock — 4 operation(s) for subscriptions.

Knock Templates API

The Templates API from Knock — 1 operation(s) for templates.

Knock Tenants API

The Tenants API from Knock — 4 operation(s) for tenants.

Knock Translations API

Translations are per-locale string files that can be used in your templates.

Knock Users API

The Users API from Knock — 28 operation(s) for users.

Knock Variables API

The Variables API from Knock — 2 operation(s) for variables.

Knock Workflow recipient runs API

The Workflow recipient runs API from Knock — 2 operation(s) for workflow recipient runs.

Knock Workflow Triggers API

The Workflow Triggers API from Knock — 2 operation(s) for workflow triggers.

Knock Workflows API

Workflows let you express your cross-channel notification logic.

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Postman Collections 13

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.

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Open Collections 13

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).

Knock Audiences API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Bulk Operations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Channels API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Integrations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Messages API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Notify API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Objects API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Providers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Schedules API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Tenants API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knock Workflows API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Arazzo Workflows 14

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.

Knock Bulk Identify Users and Notify

Bulk identify a batch of users, wait for the operation to complete, then notify them.

ARAZZO

Knock Bulk Set Objects and Notify

Bulk upsert objects in a collection, wait for completion, then notify one object.

ARAZZO

Knock Bulk Set Tenants and Verify

Bulk upsert tenants, wait for the operation to complete, then list tenants to verify.

ARAZZO

Knock Cancellable Workflow Trigger

Identify a recipient, trigger a cancellable workflow, then cancel it by key.

ARAZZO

Knock Identify User, Set Preferences, and Trigger Workflow

Identify a recipient, apply their notification preferences, then trigger a workflow for them.

ARAZZO

Knock Merge Users and Re-notify

Identify a surviving user, merge a duplicate into it, then notify the merged user.

ARAZZO

Knock Set Object Preferences and Audit Messages

Upsert an object, set its preference set, then audit messages sent to it.

ARAZZO

Knock Set Object, Add Subscriptions, and Notify

Create an object, subscribe recipients to it, then notify subscribers via a workflow.

ARAZZO

Knock Register Push Token and Read Feed

Identify a user, register their channel data, then read their in-app feed.

ARAZZO

Knock Schedule a Recurring Workflow

Identify a recipient, create a recurring schedule, then verify it was registered.

ARAZZO

Knock Tenant Onboarding and Notify

Set a tenant, identify a member user, then notify them scoped to the tenant.

ARAZZO

Knock Trigger Then Archive Feed Message

Trigger a workflow, find the resulting in-app message, then archive it.

ARAZZO

Knock Trigger Workflow and Inspect Message Content

Trigger a workflow then locate the generated message and read its rendered content.

ARAZZO

Knock Trigger Workflow and Track Recipient Run

Trigger a workflow and poll its per-recipient run until it completes.

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.

knock-app-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Knock GraphQL Schema

title: Knock GraphQL Schema

GRAPHQL

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.

Knock Plans Pricing

3 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.

Knock Rate Limits

0 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.

Knock Finops

FINOPS

Features 31

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.

Cross-channel notification workflows — email, SMS, push, in-app, in-app guides, chat (Slack/Discord/Teams/WhatsApp), and outbound webhooks from one trigger
Workflow function steps — batch, delay, branch, experiment, throttle, fetch (HTTP), AI agent, trigger-workflow, update-user / update-tenant / update-object / update-data / update-audience
Drag-and-drop workflow builder used collaboratively by engineering, product, and growth
Broadcasts — one-time messages to audience-targeted groups from the Knock dashboard
Guides — in-app lifecycle messaging using your own components and design system
Recipients model — Users, non-user Objects, and Tenants with channel data and properties
Preferences — per-channel, per-workflow, per-category preference sets enforced automatically on every run and broadcast
Audiences — static and dynamic user segments that automatically drive lifecycle workflow triggers
Schedules — one-off and recurring (timezone-aware) workflow firing
Subscriptions — many-to-many fan-out from Objects to recipient lists
Conditions — dynamic control flow on trigger data, recipient properties, and prior step status
Templates — drag-and-drop editor + Liquid; partials, branding, translations (i18n), email layouts
Real-time in-app feed API plus pre-built React, JavaScript, iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Expo, and Vue/Nuxt SDKs
Outbound webhook events for full message lifecycle and environment change tracking
Customer-facing webhook channel (let your customers configure their own webhook destinations)
Idempotent requests via Idempotency-Key
Cursor-based pagination
Tiered per-endpoint rate limits (1, 5, 60, 200, 1000 req/sec) scoped per environment or per signed user
Enhanced security mode with signed user tokens (JWT)
Environments + Branches + Commits — git-style resource workflow with promotion across dev/staging/prod
Knock CLI for local-first resource management against the Management API
Knock MCP server (remote) at mcp.knock.app/mcp — OAuth 2.1 + PKCE; tool groups for resources, commits, debug, data, and docs
Knock Agent Toolkit — AI SDK, OpenAI function-calling, Langchain, Mastra, and local MCP server bindings
AI agent function step inside workflows for prompt-driven enrichment and personalization
Knock skills — procedural knowledge packages for AI agents working with Knock
SlackKit and TeamsKit — drop-in OAuth + channel-data UX for connecting customer Slack/Teams workspaces
Data warehouse / Segment / Datadog observability streams
Source events — trigger workflows from CDPs (Segment, Rudderstack) or reverse-ETL (Hightouch, Census)
Multi-tenancy with per-tenant branding and locked preferences (Enterprise)
SAML 2.0 SSO, SCIM directory sync, HIPAA / BAA on Enterprise
Official SDKs in Node, Python, Ruby, Go, Elixir, Java, .NET, PHP, plus mobile (Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Expo) and Management-API SDKs (Node, Python, Go)

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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.

Knock Outbound Webhooks

Knock fires outbound webhook events for message lifecycle (sent, delivered, seen, read, interacted, archived, link_clicked, bounced, undelivered) and for environment changes (wo...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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.

Knock App Context

0 classes · 11 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

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.

Knock API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Knock API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Knock API Rules

8 rules · 3 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Knock Message

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Knock Workflow Trigger Request

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

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.

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.

Knock App Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Knock App 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.

Knock App Agentic Access

181 operations · 112 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

181 operations · 112 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Knock — 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.

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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