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Shareworks

Shareworks by Morgan Stanley is an equity compensation management platform offering REST APIs for managing stock option plans, RSU grants, ESPP, and employee equity administration for both public and private companies. The platform provides predictable resource-oriented URLs, JSON-encoded responses, and JWT-based bearer token authentication. Access requires IP whitelisting and initial setup through Morgan Stanley at Work.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Shareworks the way a machine reads it — 104 machine-readable artifacts across 17 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 — Shareworks scores 48.7/100 (developing), 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 — 48.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 Shareworks

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Shareworks. 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 17

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.

Shareworks Public API

The Shareworks Public API is a REST-based system for managing equity compensation plans including stock options, RSU grants, ESPP, and participant data. The API supports both re...

Shareworks Authentication Token API

The Authentication Token API from Shareworks — 3 operation(s) for authentication token.

Shareworks Authorized Capital API

The Authorized Capital API from Shareworks — 5 operation(s) for authorized capital.

Shareworks Award Type API

The Award Type API from Shareworks — 1 operation(s) for award type.

Shareworks Company API

The Company API from Shareworks — 2 operation(s) for company.

Shareworks Company Board API

The Company Board API from Shareworks — 3 operation(s) for company board.

Shareworks Company Integration API

The Company Integration API from Shareworks — 1 operation(s) for company integration.

Shareworks Entity Stakeholder API

The Entity Stakeholder API from Shareworks — 3 operation(s) for entity stakeholder.

Shareworks Grant API

The Grant API from Shareworks — 2 operation(s) for grant.

Shareworks Holdings API

The Holdings API from Shareworks — 2 operation(s) for holdings.

Shareworks Individual Stakeholder API

The Individual Stakeholder API from Shareworks — 3 operation(s) for individual stakeholder.

Shareworks Plan API

The Plan API from Shareworks — 1 operation(s) for plan.

Shareworks Read Access API

The Read Access API from Shareworks — 30 operation(s) for read access.

Shareworks Stock Certificate API

The Stock Certificate API from Shareworks — 2 operation(s) for stock certificate.

Shareworks Stock Filing API

The Stock Filing API from Shareworks — 2 operation(s) for stock filing.

Shareworks Vesting Schedule API

The Vesting Schedule API from Shareworks — 3 operation(s) for vesting schedule.

Shareworks Write Access API

The Write Access API from Shareworks — 17 operation(s) for write access.

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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.

Shareworks Rate Limits

0 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.

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.

Shareworks Context

20 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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.

Shareworks API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 77

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.

Access Token Body

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Access Token Body

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Token Response

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Token Wrapper

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Authorized Capital Response

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Award Type Response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Class Summary Response

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Address Body

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Address Response

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Board Appointment Body

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Board Appointment Response

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Board Appointment Body

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Board Body

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Board Response

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Board Detailed Response

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Contact Body

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Contact Response

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Body

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Response

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Integration Response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Company Integration Body

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Entity Stakeholder Body

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Entity Stakeholder Response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Entity Stakeholder Search Body

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Validation Error

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Fund Details Response

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Individual Stakeholder Body

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Individual Stakeholder Response

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Individual Stakeholder Search Body

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Manual Vesting Row Body

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Manual Vesting Row Response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Manual Vesting Schedule Response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Plan Summary Response

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Plan Summary Detailed Response

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error Response

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Designation Summary Response

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Plan Body

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Plan Response

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vesting Acceleration Body

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Accelerated Vesting Response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Grant Body

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Grant Response

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Grant Summary Response

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Holdings Summary Response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stakeholder Holdings Response

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stock Certificate Body

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stock Certificate Response

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stock Certificate Summary Response

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stock Filing Class Response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stock Filing Designation Response

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stock Filing Response

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stock Filing Designation Body

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vesting Schedule Body

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vesting Schedule Response

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vesting Schedule Row Response

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vesting Schedule Row Body

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Warrant Details Response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedCollectionAwardTypeDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedCollectionFundDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedDataAuthorizedCapitalDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedDataClassOfSecuritiesDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedDataCompanyDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedDataEntityStakeholderDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedDataStakeholderGrantDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedDataStockCertificateDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedDataStockFilingDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WrappedDataVestingScheduleDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 1

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.

Shareworks Examples

1 fields

EXAMPLE

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.

Shareworks Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Shareworks Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Shareworks Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

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.

Shareworks Agentic Access

48 operations · 24 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

48 operations · 24 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Shareworks — 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 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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