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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, file storage, and application integration. It provides APIs for building custom integrations, managing teams and channels, sending messages, scheduling meetings, and initiating calls through Microsoft Graph.

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 Teams the way a machine reads it — 106 machine-readable artifacts across 11 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 Teams scores 73.4/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 58/100 (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 — 73.4/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 21.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 13.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.5 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 58/100 · 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Microsoft Teams

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft Teams. 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 11

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 Teams Bot Framework API

API for building conversational bots that interact with users in Microsoft Teams through the Bot Framework.

Microsoft Teams Webhook and Connector API

APIs for creating incoming webhooks and Office 365 connectors to post messages and notifications to Teams channels.

Microsoft Teams Real-Time Communication APIs

APIs for building calling and meeting experiences in Teams including VoIP calls, group calls, IVR flows, and online meetings.

Microsoft Teams Apps API

Operations for managing app installations in teams.

Microsoft Teams Calls API

Operations for initiating and managing calls.

Microsoft Teams Channels API

Operations for managing channels within teams.

Microsoft Teams Members API

Operations for managing team and channel members.

Microsoft Teams Messages API

Operations for sending and receiving chat messages.

Microsoft Teams Online Meetings API

Operations for creating and managing online meetings.

Microsoft Teams Tabs API

Operations for managing tabs in channels.

Microsoft Teams Teams API

Operations for managing teams.

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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.

Arazzo Workflows 15

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.

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ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Add Member and Welcome

Add a member to a team and post a welcome message to a chosen channel.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Archive Team

Confirm a team is active and then archive it, making it read-only.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Audit Team Channels

Resolve a team and enumerate its channels for an inventory snapshot.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Broadcast to Joined Team Channel

Pick one of the current user's joined teams, find a channel, and post to it.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Create Team

Create a new Microsoft Teams team and capture the provisioning operation location.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Discover Channel Tabs

List a team's channels and enumerate the tabs in a chosen channel.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Inventory Team Collaboration

Snapshot a team's members, channels, and installed apps in one pass.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Offboard Team Member

Find a member by user id in a team and remove their membership.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Onboard Team Member

Add a user to a team and then promote them to owner.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Post Channel Announcement

Find a channel by name in a team and post an announcement message to it.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Promote Team Member

List a team's members and promote an existing membership to owner.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Provision Channel

Confirm a team, create a channel in it, and post an opening message.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Rename Team

Read a team and update its display name and description.

ARAZZO

Microsoft Teams Review Channel Conversation

List a team's channels and read the recent messages in a chosen channel.

ARAZZO

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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.

Microsoft Teams GraphQL Schema

This GraphQL schema provides a conceptual representation of the Microsoft Teams API surface exposed through Microsoft Graph. It maps the core Teams resources — teams, channels, ...

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.

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 Teams Rate Limits

2 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 11

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.

Microsoft Teams: hundreds of services across Collaboration
Detailed pricing: see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/compare-microsoft-teams-options
Service: Microsoft Graph - Teams API
Service: Bot Framework
Service: Adaptive Cards
Service: Teams Toolkit
Service: Teams Meeting API
Service: Teams Webhook API
Service: Teams Communication Services
Service: PSTN Calling
Service: Teams Phone

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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.

Microsoft Teams Event Surface

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of the asynchronous event surface for Microsoft Teams. Two distinct delivery channels are modeled: 1. Microsoft Graph change notifications - HTTPS webho...

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.

Microsoft Teams Graph Api Context

9 classes · 22 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.

Microsoft Teams API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Microsoft Teams API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Microsoft Teams API Rules

28 rules · 14 errors · 11 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 21

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.

AppInstallationCollection

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Call

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Channel

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChannelCollection

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessage

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessageCollection

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationMember

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MemberCollection

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OnlineMeeting

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TabCollection

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Team

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TeamCollection

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TeamsAppInstallation

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TeamsTab

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Call

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Channel

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessage

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationMember

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OnlineMeeting

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Team

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 7

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 Teams Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Teams Graph Api Call Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Teams Graph Api Channel Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Teams Graph Api Chat Message Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Teams Graph Api Online Meeting Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Teams Graph Api Team Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 20

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 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 Teams Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Microsoft Teams Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Microsoft Teams Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Microsoft Teams Trust Center

SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, FedRAMP, HIPAA / HITECH, PCI DSS, CSA STAR, 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 Teams Scopes

10 scopes · authorizationCode

10 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 Teams Agentic Access

24 operations · 15 acting

24 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

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.

Team Provisioning

Automate creation and configuration of teams for projects.

Messaging Automation

Send automated notifications and updates to channels.

Meeting Scheduling

Programmatically create and manage online meetings.

Customer Service Bots

Build conversational bots for customer support in Teams.

Workforce Management

Manage shifts and schedules for frontline workers.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Microsoft Teams — 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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Operate 3

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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