Samsung SmartThings
Samsung SmartThings is a smart-home IoT platform for connecting, controlling, and automating devices across a home. The SmartThings API is a RESTful interface (base https://api.smartthings.com/v1) that lets integrations control devices, read device status, manage locations, rooms, and modes, build automations with Rules and Scenes, define and inspect capabilities, and build SmartApps that subscribe to events and run schedules. Authentication is via a Personal Access Token (PAT) for testing or OAuth 2.0 for production integrations. SmartThings publishes a real OpenAPI/Swagger definition at swagger.api.smartthings.com/public/st-api.yml. Event delivery is push-based over HTTP webhooks (SmartApp lifecycle callbacks and the Enterprise Eventing API sinks/subscriptions), not a public WebSocket.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Samsung SmartThings the way a machine reads it — 23 machine-readable artifacts across 14 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 — Samsung SmartThings scores 37.9/100 (thin), 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Samsung SmartThings
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Samsung SmartThings. 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 14
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.
Samsung SmartThings Apps API
SmartApp registrations (Lambda or webhook endpoints).
Samsung SmartThings Capabilities API
Standard and custom capability definitions.
Samsung SmartThings Device Commands & Status API
Execute commands, create events, and read device/component/capability status.
Samsung SmartThings Devices API
Access, control, install, update, and delete devices.
Samsung SmartThings History API
Event history for devices and locations.
Samsung SmartThings Installed Apps API
Per-user installations of a SmartApp.
Samsung SmartThings Locations API
Locations (homes) and their Modes.
Samsung SmartThings Presentations API
Device presentation and configuration metadata.
Samsung SmartThings Rooms API
Groupings of devices within a Location.
Samsung SmartThings Rules API
Condition/action Automations over connected devices.
Samsung SmartThings Scenes API
Saved sets of device states that can be executed on demand.
Samsung SmartThings Schedules API
Future/cron executions for Installed Apps.
Samsung SmartThings Subscriptions API
Event subscriptions for Installed Apps.
Samsung SmartThings Virtual Devices API
Software devices for testing automations and integrations.
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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).
Samsung SmartThings API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Smartthings Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Smartthings Finops
FINOPSSecurity 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.
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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Samsung SmartThings — 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
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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