UCSI University
UCSI University is a private, multi-campus university in Kuala Lumpur, Terengganu and Sarawak, Malaysia, established in 1986 and ranked #265 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It operates no developer portal, no public API programme, no open data portal, no institutional repository on its own domain and no verifiable public code: the GitHub organisations matching "UCSI" carry no identifying metadata and zero public repositories. Its entire ucsiuniversity.edu.my estate — the main site, the library services site, the Koha catalogue, the IIS student portal, the alumni and mobile hosts — sits behind a Cloudflare bot-management challenge that answers HTTP 403 to every automated client, including one presenting full browser headers, so nothing hosted by the institution can be read programmatically. Three surfaces are nonetheless established off-host: a Microsoft Entra ID tenant (3c5f2d31-81d8-4455-a2bf-531fbc398144, branded "UCSI University") whose SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect metadata are publicly retrievable and which is the institution's own identity provider; a CourseNetworking learning-management tenancy at ucsi.thecn.com that lms.ucsiuniversity.edu.my redirects into; and a ROR registration. UCSI is NOT in eduGAIN and holds no entity in Malaysia's SIFULAN federation, and no Crossref or DataCite membership exists under its name. The Koha library catalogue is institution-operated and may expose OAI-PMH, ILS-DI or REST services, but that cannot be confirmed through the bot challenge and is recorded as unverifiable rather than as either present or absent.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles UCSI University the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 — UCSI University scores 26.1/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 5/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Why this profile is thin
UCSI's own hosts cannot be read by any automated client. Every probe against ucsiuniversity.edu.my and its subdomains on 2026-09-01 returned HTTP 403 from Cloudflare — with a plain client and again with a full Chrome User-Agent, Accept, Accept-Language and Upgrade-Insecure-Requests header set — and the main site's response carries `cf-mitigated: challenge`. The hosts are LIVE (Google indexes the Koha catalogue as "UCSI University Library catalog"); they are unreadable to us. That is a finding about our access, not a claim that UCSI publishes nothing there, and the Koha OAI-PMH / ILS-DI / REST question is therefore recorded as unverifiable in conformance/ rather than as absent. The surfaces that COULD be read were all read off-host and are all recorded: the Entra ID identity tenant, the CourseNetworking LMS tenancy, the ROR registration, and the confirmed absence of eduGAIN/SIFULAN, Crossref and DataCite records. No contract was saved for any of them, because none of them is UCSI's engineering.
The documentation is public — a person can read it, but a machine cannot. This one is UCSI University's to change: publishing an OpenAPI (or AsyncAPI for events) at a stable URL would make the same surface consumable by a crawler, a linter, and an AI agent.
What we probed
https://www.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/→ HTTP 403https://lib.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/→ HTTP 403https://koha.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/→ HTTP 403https://koha.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify→ HTTP 403https://koha.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/api/v1/→ HTTP 403https://iis.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/→ HTTP 403https://www.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/llms.txt→ HTTP 403https://www.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/.well-known/security.txt→ HTTP 403https://login.microsoftonline.com/ucsiuniversity.edu.my/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration→ HTTP 200https://login.microsoftonline.com/3c5f2d31-81d8-4455-a2bf-531fbc398144/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml→ HTTP 200https://ucsi.thecn.com/→ HTTP 200https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/019787q29→ HTTP 200https://api.crossref.org/members?query=UCSI→ HTTP 200https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=UCSI→ HTTP 200https://md.seamlessaccess.org/entities/?q=ucsi→ HTTP 200https://api.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/→ HTTP 0https://developer.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/→ HTTP 0https://data.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/→ HTTP 0https://courses.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/→ HTTP 0
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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile UCSI University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for UCSI University. 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 4
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.
UCSI University Library Catalog (Koha)
The Tan Sri Musa Mohamad Library runs a Koha open-source integrated library system whose OPAC is served from koha.ucsiuniversity.edu.my — UCSI's own registrable domain, so the d...
UCSI University Identity Federation (Microsoft Entra ID)
UCSI operates a Microsoft Entra ID tenant, 3c5f2d31-81d8-4455-a2bf-531fbc398144, region AS, whose FederationBrandName is "UCSI University" and whose realm for ucsiuniversity.edu...
UCSI University LMS Tenancy (CourseNetworking)
UCSI's learning management system is a tenancy on CourseNetworking (The CN): the institution host lms.ucsiuniversity.edu.my is a CNAME to ucsi.thecn.com and redirects there with...
UCSI University ROR Registration
UCSI University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as ror.org/019787q29, active, located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, established 1986, typed education and funder...
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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Ucsi Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Ucsi 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.
Ucsi Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Ucsi Context
JSON-LDSecurity 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 UCSI University — 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.
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
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
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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