University of Washington
The University of Washington (UW) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States, and one of the few higher-education institutions in this catalog that genuinely engineers and operates its own API estate rather than only buying one. UW-IT's Enterprise Web Services (EWS) programme publishes a browsable service registry and institution-authored OpenAPI descriptions for the Student Web Service (SWS v5), the IdCard Web Service (IdCardWS v1), the Groups Web Service (GWS 2.3.x at groups.uw.edu), the Identity Registration Web Service (IRWS v2 and v3) and the Token Authentication Web Service (TAWS v2) — every one of them hosted on a University of Washington registrable domain, so the operator is the institution and not a platform vendor. The honest limit matters as much as the footprint: the specifications and Swagger UIs are public, but essentially every data resource behind them is gated by UW NetID (Microsoft Entra ID OIDC), an X.509 InCommon client certificate and named ASTRA authorisation roles, and the IRWS and TAWS runtimes are not reachable from the public internet at all. UW additionally operates two open, unauthenticated machine-readable surfaces of real value — an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint over the ResearchWorks DSpace 9.2 repository, and a signed SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity-provider metadata document registered in InCommon as urn:mace:incommon:washington.edu. No central open-data portal (data.uw.edu / data.washington.edu do not resolve) and no free public developer programme were found.
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 University of Washington the way a machine reads it — 74 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 Washington scores 39.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (agent aware). 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
The University of Washington genuinely operates its own API estate — six UW-IT Enterprise Web Services with institution-authored OpenAPI descriptions on University of Washington registrable domains. What is NOT open is the data. Specifications and Swagger UIs return 200 unauthenticated, but every SWS/IdCardWS data resource 302s to UW NetID sign-in through Microsoft Entra ID, DSpace REST item retrieval returns 401, and the IRWS and TAWS runtimes do not answer from the public internet at all. Two surfaces ARE open and were verified live: the ResearchWorks OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and the signed Shibboleth / InCommon SAML metadata document. No open-data portal exists (data.uw.edu and data.washington.edu do not resolve) and no self-service developer programme was found — access is institutional, requested through UW-IT, and authorised by named ASTRA roles. The 26 per-resource SWS/IdCardWS entries in apis[] are OUR refine step's split of TWO institution contracts, not 26 independent APIs; x-service groups them. Removed 22 pointers to wiki.cac.washington.edu: the whole host times out on connect (curl 28), so the SWS Confluence space UW's own registry links to is dead.
An API exists — we simply could not reach the contract without credentials or a sales conversation. This one is University of Washington's to change: publishing the reference and a machine-readable spec at a public URL, while keeping key issuance behind whatever gate they like, would let an integrator evaluate the API before committing to a call.
What we probed
https://webservices.washington.edu/service/browse/index.html→ HTTP 200https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student/swagger/v5/swagger.json→ HTTP 200https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student/v5/campus.json→ HTTP 302https://iam-tools.u.washington.edu/apis/gws/api.yaml→ HTTP 200https://iam-tools.u.washington.edu/apis/irwsv3/irwsv3.yaml→ HTTP 200https://iam-tools.u.washington.edu/apis/tawsv2/tawsv2.yaml→ HTTP 200https://mango.u.washington.edu:646/registry/v2/person→ HTTP 0https://digital.lib.washington.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify→ HTTP 200https://digital.lib.washington.edu/server/api→ HTTP 200https://digital.lib.washington.edu/server/api/core/items→ HTTP 401https://idp.u.washington.edu/metadata/idp-metadata.xml→ HTTP 200https://data.uw.edu/→ HTTP 0https://data.washington.edu/→ HTTP 0https://wiki.cac.washington.edu/display/SWS→ 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 University of Washington
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Washington. 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 32
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.
Identity Registration Web Service (IRWS)
The UW-IT Identity Registry REST API. V3 (28 paths) and V2 (13 paths) OpenAPI descriptions are published openly by UW at iam-tools.u.washington.edu and are saved here; the runti...
UW-IT Enterprise Web Services Registry
Enterprise Web Services (EWS) is UW-IT's secure collection of REST/SOAP web services that let enterprise business applications access commonly shared source data in a scalable, ...
UW Groups Web Service (GWS)
The University of Washington Group Service API — UW-IT's institution-operated group registry and membership service. UW publishes the OpenAPI itself, with an explicit termsOfSer...
UW Token Authentication Web Service (TAWS)
UW-IT's Token Authentication Web Service V2 — the institution-operated issuer for the AccessToken credential that the Student and IdCard Web Services accept. Three paths; the Op...
UW Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)
UW's Shibboleth identity provider publishes signed SAML 2.0 metadata at a stable URL — entityID urn:mace:incommon:washington.edu, scope washington.edu, InCommon registration ID ...
ResearchWorks Repository (DSpace REST + OAI-PMH)
ResearchWorks is UW Libraries' institutional repository, running DSpace 9.2 on UW's own host. The DSpace REST root document is public (HTTP 200) and item retrieval is gated (HTT...
Student Web Service (SWS) Campus API
Student Web Service (SWS) Campus API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS v...
IdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Card API
IdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Card API — a resource of the UW-IT IdCard Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published IdCa...
Student Web Service (SWS) College API
Student Web Service (SWS) College API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS ...
Student Web Service (SWS) Course API
Student Web Service (SWS) Course API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS v...
Student Web Service (SWS) Curriculum API
Student Web Service (SWS) Curriculum API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published S...
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree API
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS v...
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree Audit API
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree Audit API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published...
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree Audit Exception API
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree Audit Exception API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution...
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree Audit Program API
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree Audit Program API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-p...
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree Audit Status API
Student Web Service (SWS) Degree Audit Status API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-pu...
Student Web Service (SWS) Department API
Student Web Service (SWS) Department API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published S...
Student Web Service (SWS) Enrollment API
Student Web Service (SWS) Enrollment API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published S...
Student Web Service (SWS) Enrollment Major API
Student Web Service (SWS) Enrollment Major API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-publi...
Student Web Service (SWS) Major Students API
Student Web Service (SWS) Major Students API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-publish...
Student Web Service (SWS) Notice API
Student Web Service (SWS) Notice API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS v...
Student Web Service (SWS) Person API
Student Web Service (SWS) Person API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS v...
Student Web Service (SWS) Personal Financial API
Student Web Service (SWS) Personal Financial API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-pub...
IdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Photo API
IdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Photo API — a resource of the UW-IT IdCard Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published IdC...
Student Web Service (SWS) Program API
Student Web Service (SWS) Program API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS ...
Student Web Service (SWS) Registration API
Student Web Service (SWS) Registration API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published...
UW Enterprise Web Services Resource List API
UW Enterprise Web Services Resource List API — a discovery resource published at the root of both the Student Web Service and the IdCard Web Service. Per-path servers[] in the s...
Student Web Service (SWS) Schedule API
Student Web Service (SWS) Schedule API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS...
Student Web Service (SWS) Section API
Student Web Service (SWS) Section API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS ...
Student Web Service (SWS) Term API
Student Web Service (SWS) Term API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS v5 ...
Student Web Service (SWS) Test Score API
Student Web Service (SWS) Test Score API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published S...
UW Enterprise Web Services Version API
UW Enterprise Web Services Version API — a discovery resource published at the root of both the Student Web Service and the IdCard Web Service. Per-path servers[] in the specifi...
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Open Collections 27
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Card API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus College API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Course API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Curriculum API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Degree API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus DegreeAudit API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus DegreeAuditProgram API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus DegreeAuditStatus API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Department API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Enrollment API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus EnrollmentMajor API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus MajorStudents API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Notice API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Person API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus PersonalFinancial API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Photo API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Program API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Registration API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus ResourceList API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Schedule API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Section API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Term API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus TestScore API
OPEN COLLECTIONIdCard Web Service (IdCardWS) Campus Version API
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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.
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.
University Of Washington 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.
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.
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 Washington API Rules
SPECTRALUniversity of Washington API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
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.
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.
University Of Washington Course Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUniversity Of Washington Photo Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 2
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.
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 University of Washington — 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 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 4
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 2
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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