Picarro
Picarro, Inc. is a Santa Clara, California company that builds high-precision gas concentration and stable-isotope analyzers based on Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS), together with the cloud software and mobile platforms that turn those measurements into operational decisions. Its instruments measure more than 700 compounds — methane, ethane, CO2, N2O, ammonia, ethylene oxide, hydrogen peroxide, water isotopes and cleanroom-level airborne molecular contamination — at parts-per- billion and parts-per-trillion sensitivity. Picarro serves natural gas utilities (mobile methane leak detection and the Picarro Surveyor programme), sterilization and EtO facilities, refinery and chemical-plant fenceline monitoring, semiconductor cleanrooms and FOUP contamination control, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and atmospheric and earth-science research. The company reports 25+ years of operation, 5,000+ instruments installed in about 100 countries, and 77 patents. Its software side is P-Cubed, a cloud data-processing and storage platform with a customer-facing API for custom data transformation routines, a companion mobile app for field leak investigations, and — for semiconductor deployments — a publicly published gRPC/ProtoBuf interface (picarro/sam-foup-public) for external control and monitoring of Picarro Edge systems.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Picarro the way a machine reads it — 9 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 — Picarro scores 52.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (agent aware). 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
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Kin Score
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How we profile Picarro
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Picarro. 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 4
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.
Picarro Edge — SAM FOUP gRPC API
The first-party gRPC/ProtoBuf interface Picarro publishes for external access to Picarro SAM (semiconductor airborne molecular contamination) systems. The `picarro-edge` server ...
Picarro Platform Server API
The gRPC interface to the host computer underneath a Picarro SAM deployment. `platformserver` exposes NetConfig for network connectivity and Wi-Fi management, SysConfig for prod...
Picarro Identity (P-Cubed SSO)
The Keycloak-backed identity service that fronts the Picarro P-Cubed cloud platform. It publishes an anonymous OpenID Connect discovery document for the `picarro` realm, adverti...
Picarro P-Cubed Platform
P-Cubed is Picarro's cloud data processing and storage platform. Picarro analyzers stream or batch data to it, customers interact with the results in a graphics-rich web environ...
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.
Picarro Edge — SAM FOUP Signal Streams
Picarro Edge implements a publish/subscribe surface on top of gRPC server streaming: every service exposes a `watch(picarro.signal.Filter)` method that returns a stream of `Sign...
ASYNCAPISecurity 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.
Picarro Trust Center
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 9001:2015
SECURITYScopes 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Picarro — 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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 6
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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