ShortKit
ShortKit is a Y Combinator-backed short-form vertical video platform that gives product teams a drop-in, TikTok-quality video experience without the infrastructure complexity. It ships native SDKs for iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Expo and Web alongside a REST API for managing content, direct uploads, live streams, in-feed surveys, analytics events and ad configuration. The platform handles adaptive-bitrate HLS transcoding, global CDN delivery across 300+ points of presence, automatic caption generation with language detection, protected/signed playback, and native ad insertion (Google Ad Manager / VAST / IMA). Developer docs are partner-gated but the Mintlify API reference and the iOS SDK are published openly on GitHub.
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 ShortKit the way a machine reads it — 9 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 — ShortKit scores 50.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 47/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile ShortKit
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ShortKit. 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 5
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.
ShortKit Ad Configuration API
How ad slots are interleaved into the feed.
ShortKit Analytics API
Events and metrics for user interaction with your content.
ShortKit Content API
Videos, image carousels, and video carousels in your feed.
ShortKit Live Streams API
Real-time broadcasts that appear in the feed alongside on-demand content.
ShortKit Surveys API
Short polls injected between content items in the feed.
MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
shortkit-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent 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.
Shortkit Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for ShortKit — 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 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Scroll within the panel for all 7 ·
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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