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Violetlabs

Violet Labs is the connective tissue for hardware engineering data. Its cloud platform gives hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams a single workspace that harmonizes the software stack — PLM, ERP, CAD, PDM, MES, requirements, and procurement tools — through no-code integrations, data-sync workflows, parameters, native Python/Julia/MATLAB scripts, requirements management, reporting, and dashboards. Violet exposes a REST API (the Explore endpoint) authenticated with an x-api-key header, an OAuth 2.0 authorization server with dynamic client registration for its hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, and an AI chat/agent surface. The platform is ITAR/EAR-aware, SOC 2 certified, and NIST/CMMC/FedRAMP-aligned, with on-premises and VioletGov deployment options for defense and regulated hardware programs.

agent aware

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 Violetlabs the way a machine reads it — 6 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Violetlabs scores 38.9/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 25/100 (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.

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 — 38.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Violetlabs

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Violetlabs. 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 1

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.

Violet Explore API

REST API for programmatic access to your Violet data. The Explore endpoint (POST /api/explore) accepts a rich query payload (keyword, filterModel, sort, grouping, pagination) an...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

violetlabs-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security 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.

Violetlabs Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Violetlabs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Violetlabs Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, FIPS 140

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.

Violetlabs Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode/clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Every other property we hold for Violetlabs — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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