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United States Steel

United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) is an integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with major production operations in the United States and Central Europe. The company serves customers in automotive, construction, container, energy, and industrial markets with advanced high-strength steels, coated products, hot-rolled and cold-rolled coils, electrical steel, and tubular products. U.S. Steel provides digital customer tools through the SteelTrack platform for order management, inventory tracking, shipment history, and certified test reporting.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles United States Steel the way a machine reads it — 55 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 — United States Steel scores 58.7/100 (developing), 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 — 58.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 20.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 United States Steel

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for United States Steel. 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.

United States Steel Inventory API

Inventory tracking and management operations

United States Steel Orders API

Order status and summary reporting operations

United States Steel Shipments API

Shipment history and tracking operations

United States Steel Test Reports API

Physical, mechanical, and chemical test report operations

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).

U.S. Steel SteelTrack 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.

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.

United States Steel Rate Limits

5 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.

Features 7

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Order Status Reporting

Customizable reports on order availability and status across all U.S. Steel facilities.

Inventory Tracking

On-demand inventory reporting filterable by OP, customer, PO, and part number with flexible sorting.

Shipment History

Load history searchable by order item, part number, and PO with optional coil-level detail.

Certified Test Reports

Physical, mechanical, and chemical test reports with electronic certification signatures.

24/7 Availability

SteelTrack platform operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with console dashboard and workflow guidance.

Multi-Facility Coverage

Consolidated view across all U.S. Steel production facilities including Gary Works, Mon Valley, and Big River Steel.

Real-Time Updates

New and updated test report information relayed throughout the day to the Test Reports System.

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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.

United States Steel Steeltrack Context

8 classes · 33 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.

United States Steel API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

United States Steel API Rules

32 rules · 13 errors · 13 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 8

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.

InventoryItem

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShipmentList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Shipment

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TestReportList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TestReport

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 8

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.

Steeltrack Inventory Item Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Steeltrack Inventory List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Steeltrack Order List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Steeltrack Order Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Steeltrack Shipment List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Steeltrack Shipment Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Steeltrack Test Report List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Steeltrack Test Report Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 8

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.

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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.

United States Steel Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

United States Steel Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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.

United States Steel Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

ERP Integration

Integrate SteelTrack order and shipment data directly into customer ERP systems for automated procurement workflows.

Quality Documentation

Automate retrieval of certified mill test reports for compliance, quality audits, and material traceability.

Supply Chain Visibility

Track steel coil status from order placement through production and delivery for manufacturing planning.

Inventory Planning

Monitor available inventory and in-transit material to optimize material release and production scheduling.

Automotive Supplier Compliance

Access physical and chemical test data to meet automotive OEM supplier quality requirements (PPAP, IMDS).

Shipment Reconciliation

Reconcile received shipments against orders using coil-level shipping data for accounts payable processing.

Integrations 4

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

SAP

SteelTrack data integrates with SAP ERP for automated purchase order management and goods receipt processing.

Oracle ERP

Order and inventory data connects to Oracle ERP Cloud for supply chain and procurement workflows.

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange for standard steel industry transaction sets including orders, shipment notices, and invoices.

Nippon Steel

Technology partnership with Nippon Steel Corporation following acquisition for shared manufacturing intelligence.

Resources

Every other property we hold for United States Steel — 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

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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