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Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud-based service that helps you create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and automate business processes. It supports automated, instant, and scheduled cloud flows, as well as desktop flows for robotic process automation.

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 Microsoft Power Automate the way a machine reads it — 65 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 Power Automate scores 72.8/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 74/100 (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 — 72.8/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 20.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 74/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 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 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile Microsoft Power Automate

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft Power Automate. 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 6

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 Power Automate Connections API

Operations for managing connections

Microsoft Power Automate Connectors API

Operations for managing connectors

Microsoft Power Automate Environments API

Operations for managing Power Automate environments

Microsoft Power Automate Flow Permissions API

Operations for managing flow sharing and ownership

Microsoft Power Automate Flow Runs API

Operations for managing flow run history

Microsoft Power Automate Flows API

Operations for managing cloud flows

Arazzo Workflows 9

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 Power Automate Cancel an In-Flight Run

Find a run that is still executing, confirm it is live, and cancel it.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Power Automate Audit a Flow's Connector Dependencies

Resolve the connectors and connections a single flow depends on.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Power Automate Environment Inventory

Walk every environment and inventory its flows, connections, and connectors.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Power Automate Retrieve a Flow Trigger Callback URL

Confirm a flow is request-triggered, fetch its callback URL, and observe the resulting run.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Power Automate Manage Flow Owners

Read a flow's current owners, add or remove owners, and verify the new roster.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Power Automate Provision and Activate a Flow

Create a new cloud flow in an environment, turn it on, and read back its state.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Power Automate Retire a Flow Safely

Check a flow for in-flight runs, deactivate it, and then delete it.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Power Automate Safely Update a Live Flow

Stop a running flow, update its definition, restart it, and verify the result.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Power Automate Triage and Resubmit a Failed Run

Find a failed run in a flow's history, inspect it, and resubmit its trigger.

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.

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.

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.

Automated Cloud Flows

Create event-triggered automations that run when specific events occur.

Instant Cloud Flows

Start automations on demand with the push of a button.

Scheduled Cloud Flows

Run automations on a recurring schedule.

Desktop Flows (RPA)

Automate desktop and legacy application tasks using robotic process automation.

Copilot Integration

Create flows using natural language descriptions powered by AI.

1000+ Connectors

Connect to over 1000 pre-built connectors for Microsoft and third-party services.

Custom Connectors

Build custom connectors using OpenAPI definitions.

Flow Templates

Start from pre-built templates for common automation scenarios.

Approval Workflows

Build approval workflows with built-in support for multi-stage approvals.

Error Handling

Configure error handling, retry policies, and notifications for flow failures.

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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 Power Automate Management Api Context

6 classes · 17 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 Power Automate API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Microsoft Power Automate API Rules

28 rules · 15 errors · 11 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

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.

Connector

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Environment

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FlowRun

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Flow

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 4

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.

Examples 4

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 4

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 Power Automate Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Microsoft Power Automate Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Microsoft Power Automate Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Microsoft Power Automate Trust Center

SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, HIPAA, FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, PCI DSS, GDPR

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 Power Automate Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 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 Power Automate Agentic Access

18 operations · 9 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

18 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

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.

Email Automation

Automatically process, route, and respond to emails based on content or sender.

Data Synchronization

Keep data synchronized across multiple systems and applications.

Approval Processes

Automate business approval workflows across teams and departments.

Document Processing

Automate document creation, routing, and archival workflows.

IT Process Automation

Automate IT helpdesk tickets, provisioning, and monitoring workflows.

Social Media Monitoring

Track brand mentions and automatically respond or alert teams.

Integrations 6

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 365

Deep integration with SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 apps.

Microsoft Dataverse

Native integration with Dataverse for data storage and management.

Azure Services

Connect to Azure Logic Apps, Functions, and other Azure services.

Dynamics 365

Automate business processes within Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP.

SAP

Connect to SAP systems for enterprise process automation.

Salesforce

Integrate with Salesforce for CRM automation workflows.

Solutions 3

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

Power Automate Premium

Premium plan with advanced connectors, AI Builder, and process mining.

Power Automate Process

Per-process licensing for unattended RPA and hosted machines.

Power Automate Hosted

Hosted machine groups for scaling desktop automation.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Microsoft Power Automate — 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.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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