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Reaction Commerce

Reaction Commerce is an open-source, API-first, headless commerce platform built with Node.js, React and GraphQL and deployed via Docker and Kubernetes. Acquired by Mailchimp in 2020, it was rebranded as Mailchimp Open Commerce and offered a modular, plugin-based GraphQL API stack aimed at technical, growth-minded retailers. The core `reaction` platform is now discontinued, but its developer documentation, GraphQL API reference, CLI and npm packages remain published under the @reactioncommerce scope. The API is GraphQL and self-hosted; a default local instance exposes its endpoint at http://localhost:3000/graphql, and an interactive GraphQL Playground is provided in the developer docs.

human only

More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Reaction Commerce the way a machine reads it — 2 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Reaction Commerce scores 20.4/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). 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 — 20.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile Reaction Commerce

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Reaction Commerce. 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 1

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.

Open Commerce GraphQL API

The Mailchimp Open Commerce (Reaction Commerce) GraphQL API — a modular, plugin-based headless commerce API covering carts, orders, catalogs, shops, accounts, surcharges and mor...

Security Posture 1

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.

Reaction Commerce Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Reaction Commerce — 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

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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