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Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc is a global energy company operating across oil, gas, renewable energy, lubricants, aviation fuel, and mobility sectors. The Shell Developer Portal provides APIs for B2B mobility card management, loyalty programs, lubricants ordering, aviation fuel reselling, and fleet management. SDKs are available in Java, .NET, TypeScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Shell the way a machine reads it — 59 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 — Shell scores 60.8/100 (strong), 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 — 60.8/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 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 Shell

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Shell. 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 12

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.

Shell Aviation Fuel Reseller API

The Shell Aviation Fuel Reseller API enables aviation fuel resellers and operators to manage fuel procurement, pricing queries, order placement, and delivery logistics for Shell...

Shell Accounts API

Manage loyalty accounts

Shell Cards API

Manage B2B fuel cards

Shell Catalogue API

Browse loyalty rewards catalogue

Shell Invoices API

Manage fuel card invoices

Shell Limits API

Manage card spending limits and restrictions

Shell Offers API

Manage loyalty offers

Shell Orders API

Manage lubricants orders

Shell Points API

Query and manage loyalty points

Shell Products API

Browse lubricants product catalogue

Shell Sites API

Query Shell fuel and EV charging sites

Shell Transactions API

Retrieve fuel card transaction data

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Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Shell B2B Mobility API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shell Loyalty API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shell Lubricants API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Shell Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

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.

Shell Rate Limits

1 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.

Shell Finops

FINOPS

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.

Shell Context

42 classes · 14 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.

Shell API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Shell API Rules

13 rules · 3 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 31

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.

AccountEnrollRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AccountUpdateRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Card

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CardLimit

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CardLimitUpdateRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CardListResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CardOrderRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CardOrderResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogueItem

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogueListResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Shell Fuel Card

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Invoice

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InvoiceListResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoyaltyAccount

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoyaltyTransaction

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LubricantsAccount

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Offer

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OfferListResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderCreateRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderItem

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderListResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PointsBalance

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Product

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductListResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RedemptionRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RedemptionResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Site

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SiteListResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Shell Fuel Card Transaction

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TransactionListResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 2

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.

Shell Fuel Card Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Shell Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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.

Security Posture 2

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.

Shell Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Shell Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

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.

Shell Scopes

9 scopes · clientCredentials

9 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.

Shell Agentic Access

28 operations · 9 acting

28 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Shell — 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 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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