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Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Planner is a task management tool that helps teams organize work, assign tasks, share files, and collaborate on projects within Microsoft 365.

agent ready

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

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Microsoft Planner the way a machine reads it — 190 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 — Microsoft Planner scores 73.8/100 (exemplar), 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 — 73.8/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
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 Microsoft Planner

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft Planner. 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.

Microsoft Graph Planner API (Beta)

Beta version of the Planner API in Microsoft Graph providing access to preview features including plannerRoster resources, business scenarios integration, and expanded container...

Microsoft Graph Business Scenarios Planner API (Beta)

Beta API for integrating external business processes with Microsoft Planner through business scenarios, allowing creation of scenario-controlled Planner tasks and plans.

Microsoft Planner Buckets API

Operations for managing Planner buckets

Microsoft Planner Plan Details API

Operations for managing additional plan details

Microsoft Planner Plans API

Operations for managing Planner plans

Microsoft Planner Task Details API

Operations for managing additional task details

Microsoft Planner Tasks API

Operations for managing Planner tasks

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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).

Arazzo Workflows 8

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.

Microsoft Planner Add a Bucket and Task to an Existing Plan

Confirm a plan exists, create a new bucket in it, then add a task to that bucket.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Planner Complete My First Assigned Task

List tasks assigned to the signed-in user and, if any exist, mark the first one complete.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Planner Mark a Task Complete

Read a task to capture its ETag, then patch it to 100 percent complete.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Planner Stand Up a Plan with a Bucket and First Task

Create a plan in a group, add a bucket to it, then create the first task in that bucket.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Planner Create a Task and Populate Its Details

Create a task in a plan, then read and update its task details with a description and checklist.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Planner Drill From Group to Plan to Tasks

List a group's plans, pick the first plan, and list that plan's tasks and buckets.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Planner Move a Task Into a Different Bucket

Confirm the target bucket exists, read the task ETag, then reassign the task to that bucket.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Planner Rename a Plan and Describe Its Categories

Read a plan and its details for ETags, rename the plan, then set category label descriptions.

ARAZZO

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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.

Microsoft Planner Rate Limits

4 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.

Visual task boards with drag-and-drop organization
Plan creation tied to Microsoft 365 Groups
Task assignment with due dates and priorities
Bucket-based task categorization and organization
Checklist subtasks within individual tasks
File attachment and external reference linking
Progress tracking with charts and status views
Microsoft Teams integration for collaborative planning
Category labels for cross-cutting task classification
Microsoft Graph API for programmatic access

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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.

Microsoft Planner 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.

Microsoft Planner API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Microsoft Planner API Rules

18 rules · 8 errors · 9 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 58

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.

Identity

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IdentitySet

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IdentitySet

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ODataError

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ODataError

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerAppliedCategories

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerAssignment

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerAssignments

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerBucketCollection

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerBucketCreate

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerBucket

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerBucketUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerCategoryDescriptions

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerChecklistItem

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerChecklistItems

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerExternalReference

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerExternalReferences

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanCollection

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanContainer

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanCreate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanDetailsUpdate

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlan

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanUpdate

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskCollection

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskCreate

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskDetails

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskDetailsUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTask

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskUpdate

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerUserIds

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerAppliedCategories

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerAssignment

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerAssignments

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerBucket

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerBucketCollection

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerBucketCreate

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerBucketUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerCategoryDescriptions

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerChecklistItem

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerChecklistItems

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerExternalReference

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerExternalReferences

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlan

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanCollection

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanContainer

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanCreate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanDetails

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanDetailsUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerPlanUpdate

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTask

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskCollection

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskCreate

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskDetails

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskDetailsUpdate

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerTaskUpdate

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlannerUserIds

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Microsoft Planner Task

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 30

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.

Microsoft Planner Identity Set Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Microsoft Planner Identity Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Microsoft Planner O Data Error Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Microsoft Planner Planner Bucket Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Microsoft Planner Planner Plan Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Microsoft Planner Planner Task Structure

19 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Microsoft Planner Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 48

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.

Microsoft Planner Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Microsoft Planner Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Microsoft Planner 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.

Microsoft Planner Scopes

6 scopes · authorizationCode

6 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.

Microsoft Planner Agentic Access

22 operations · 11 acting

22 operations · 11 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 8

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.

Project management for team-based work coordination
Sprint planning and agile task tracking
Onboarding workflows for new employees
Event planning with task delegation and deadlines
Content publishing calendars and editorial workflows
IT helpdesk ticket organization and tracking
Marketing campaign task management
Cross-functional team collaboration on initiatives

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Integrations 8

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

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Microsoft Teams for in-chat task management
Microsoft To Do for personal task sync
Power Automate for workflow automation
SharePoint for document-linked tasks
Outlook for email-to-task conversion
Excel for data export and reporting
Power BI for advanced analytics dashboards
Azure DevOps for development task bridging

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Microsoft Planner — 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 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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