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Shortcut

Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) is a cloud-based project management platform built for software development teams, providing stories, epics, objectives, Kanban boards, sprints, reporting, and integrations with GitHub, GitLab, and Slack. The Shortcut REST API v3 exposes full CRUD access to stories, epics, iterations, workflows, members, projects, and webhooks. Authentication uses a per-account API token passed via the Shortcut-Token request header.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Shortcut the way a machine reads it — 13 machine-readable artifacts across 7 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 — Shortcut scores 34.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (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

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 — 34.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 3.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent aware
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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Shortcut

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Shortcut. 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 7

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.

Shortcut REST API v3

RESTful API providing full CRUD access to stories, epics, iterations, milestones, workflows, projects, teams, members, files, labels, categories, and webhooks. Requests authenti...

Shortcut Categories API

The Categories API from Shortcut — 2 operation(s) for categories.

Shortcut Custom Fields API

The Custom Fields API from Shortcut — 2 operation(s) for custom fields.

Shortcut Documents API

The Documents API from Shortcut — 2 operation(s) for documents.

Shortcut Entity Templates API

The Entity Templates API from Shortcut — 2 operation(s) for entity templates.

Shortcut Epics API

The Epics API from Shortcut — 4 operation(s) for epics.

Shortcut Workflows API

The Workflows API from Shortcut — 1 operation(s) for workflows.

Scroll within the panel for all 7 ·

Open Collections 1

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).

Shortcut REST API v3

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Shortcut Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Shortcut Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Shortcut Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Shortcut Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

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.

Shortcut Agentic Access

28 operations · 15 acting

28 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Shortcut — 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 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

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 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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