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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890 and ranked #14 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is anchored in research data infrastructure rather than a single central developer portal: the Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS) maintains the open-source Gen3 data platform (uc-cdis on GitHub), which auto-generates FAIR APIs for accessing biomedical data commons. The University also publishes Shibboleth/OpenID Connect identity integrations for CNetID authentication, and the University of Chicago Library operates IIIF image and presentation endpoints plus a VuFind-based catalog. A faculty/staff-facing AI API portal (Azure OpenAI via API Management) exists but is gated and not publicly accessible.

agent ready

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 University of Chicago the way a machine reads it — 58 machine-readable artifacts across 39 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 — University of Chicago scores 43.9/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 43.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 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 University of Chicago

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Chicago. 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 39

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.

CNetID OpenID Connect / Shibboleth Identity

University of Chicago identity and authentication integrations published on the official uchicago GitHub organization, including Shibboleth Identity Provider extensions and Open...

University of Chicago Library IIIF

The University of Chicago Library exposes International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) image and presentation endpoints for its digital collections, with related code p...

University of Chicago admin/user API

The admin/user API from University of Chicago — 4 operation(s) for admin/user.

University of Chicago alias API

create an alias for an entity stored in an external system managed by some other authority

University of Chicago core metadata API

The core metadata API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for core metadata.

University of Chicago credentials/cdis API

Deprecated! Use credentials/api

University of Chicago data API

Generate signed URLs

University of Chicago datasets API

The datasets API from University of Chicago — 2 operation(s) for datasets.

University of Chicago dictionary API

The dictionary API from University of Chicago — 8 operation(s) for dictionary.

University of Chicago DOS API

Data Object Service Retrieval Endpoints

University of Chicago DRS API

Data Repository Service Retrieval Endpoints

University of Chicago dry run API

The dry run API from University of Chicago — 12 operation(s) for dry run.

University of Chicago entity API

The entity API from University of Chicago — 7 operation(s) for entity.

University of Chicago export API

The export API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for export.

University of Chicago file API

The file API from University of Chicago — 5 operation(s) for file.

University of Chicago global API

Search for an alias or index, potentially even a distributed search.

University of Chicago google API

Google functionality

University of Chicago GUID API

Endpoints for generation of Gen3 GUIDs

University of Chicago index API

Associate a file (object) with a unique id, and store some basic metadata.

University of Chicago keys API

Get public keys used to validate JWTs issued by fence

University of Chicago link API

Link access identities

University of Chicago login API

The login API from University of Chicago — 2 operation(s) for login.

University of Chicago logout API

Log out the current user

University of Chicago oauth2 API

Authorization and token management

University of Chicago OIDC API

The OIDC API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for oidc.

University of Chicago privacy-policy API

The privacy-policy API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for privacy-policy.

University of Chicago program API

The program API from University of Chicago — 2 operation(s) for program.

University of Chicago project API

The project API from University of Chicago — 6 operation(s) for project.

University of Chicago register API

The register API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for register.

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

University of Chicago GraphQL API

Open-source data platform maintained by the University of Chicago Center for Translational Data Science. Gen3 auto-generates FAIR APIs (data submission, GraphQL/Peregrine query,...

GRAPHQL

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.

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.

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.

University Of Chicago Context

34 classes · 0 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.

University of Chicago API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

University of Chicago API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

Gen3 Indexd Record

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Gen3 Sheepdog Program

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Gen3 Sheepdog Project

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

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.

Examples 3

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.

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.

University Of Chicago Authentication

apiKey/http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

University Of Chicago Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

University Of Chicago Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode

3 scopes

SCOPES

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.

University Of Chicago Agentic Access

176 operations · 101 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

176 operations · 101 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for University of Chicago — 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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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