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WakaTime

WakaTime is an automated time-tracking and productivity analytics service for software developers. IDE plugins (VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, Emacs, Sublime, Xcode, Visual Studio, Eclipse, and many more) send heartbeats describing the file, project, language, branch, and editor a developer is working in, and the WakaTime API v1 aggregates that data into dashboards, summaries, stats, goals, leaderboards, and team/organization dashboards. WakaTime also offers private leaderboards, code-time-on-commit enrichment for GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, embeddable charts, and a full data export.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles WakaTime the way a machine reads it — 52 machine-readable artifacts across 20 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 — WakaTime scores 71.9/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (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 — 71.9/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 18.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 55/100 · 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 7 / 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 WakaTime

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for WakaTime. 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 20

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.

WakaTime Commits API

Per-project commits enriched with coding time.

WakaTime Custom Rules API

User and organization custom-rule definitions for time attribution.

WakaTime Data Dumps API

Full data exports.

WakaTime Durations API

Continuous time-on-task spans derived from heartbeats.

WakaTime Editors API

Available editor plugins and versions.

WakaTime External Durations API

Non-IDE activity durations created via the API.

WakaTime Goals API

User coding goals and their progress.

WakaTime Heartbeats API

Coding-activity pings sent by editor plugins.

WakaTime Insights API

Curated analytics views (weekdays, days, projects, languages, editors, machines, operating systems, AI days, best day, daily average).

WakaTime Languages API

Programming languages.

WakaTime Leaderboards API

Public and private leaderboard rankings.

WakaTime Machines API

Devices that have sent heartbeats.

WakaTime Meta API

WakaTime infrastructure metadata.

WakaTime Organizations API

Team/organization dashboards and member analytics.

WakaTime Projects API

Projects the authenticated user has logged time against.

WakaTime Stats API

User-wide statistics over preset and custom ranges.

WakaTime Status Bar API

Cached today-only stats for status-bar displays.

WakaTime Summaries API

Daily aggregations of coding activity by project, language, editor, OS, machine, branch, and category.

WakaTime User Agents API

Editor + OS user-agent inventory.

WakaTime Users API

Authenticated user profile and public user lookups.

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Postman Collections 1

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

WakaTime API

POSTMAN

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).

WakaTime API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 10

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

WakaTime Daily Activity Audit

Pull the status-bar today snapshot, then the day's raw heartbeats and computed durations.

ARAZZO

WakaTime Data Dump Export

Check for existing data exports, create a new dump when none exist, then re-list to confirm.

ARAZZO

WakaTime Goals Review

List the user's coding goals, then load the detailed progress for the first goal.

ARAZZO

WakaTime Leaderboard To User

Read the public leaderboard, resolve the top leader's public profile, and their all-time totals.

ARAZZO

WakaTime Private Leaderboard Rankings

List the user's private leaderboards, load one board's rankings, then resolve the top member.

ARAZZO

WakaTime Project Deep Dive

Resolve the current user, load a project's details, list its commits, then fetch one commit.

ARAZZO

WakaTime Send Heartbeat And Verify

Send a single editor heartbeat, then list the day's heartbeats to confirm it landed.

ARAZZO

WakaTime Stats Range Comparison

Compare a preset named-range stat set against a custom-range stat set and the global aggregate.

ARAZZO

WakaTime Summaries To Durations Drilldown

Pull daily summaries over a date range, then drill into a single day's activity durations.

ARAZZO

WakaTime User Profile Overview

Assemble a snapshot of the authenticated user's profile, all-time totals, recent stats, and projects.

ARAZZO

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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 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.

Wakatime 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.

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.

Wakatime Context

0 classes · 69 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.

WakaTime API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

WakaTime API Rules

51 rules · 18 errors · 26 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.

Heartbeat

21 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SummaryDay

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

27 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

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.

Wakatime Heartbeat Structure

21 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

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 4

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.

Wakatime Authentication

http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Wakatime Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Wakatime Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Wakatime Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

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.

Wakatime Scopes

8 scopes · authorizationCode/implicit

8 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.

Wakatime Agentic Access

51 operations · 11 acting

51 operations · 11 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for WakaTime — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 69

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace
PostmanWorkspace
Examples
Examples
GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
wakatime-cli (Go, shared by all editor plugins)
CLI
wakatime (Python wrapper for wakatime-cli)
CLI
WakaTime CLI Homebrew Tap
Tools
wakadump (CLI data dump converter)
Tools
WakaQ (Python background job queue used internally by WakaTime)
Tools
WakaQ TypeScript (TypeScript port of WakaQ)
Tools
Crackboard.dev (daily productivity leaderboard built on WakaTime)
Tools
wakatime.io documentation site
Tools
Visual Studio Code Plugin
Plugin
JetBrains IDEs Plugin (IntelliJ, PyCharm, RubyMine, PhpStorm, GoLand, Rider, WebStorm, AppCode, AndroidStudio)
Plugin
Vim Plugin
Plugin
Neovim/Vim Plugin (vim-wakatime)
Plugin
Emacs Plugin (wakatime-mode)
Plugin
Sublime Text Plugin
Plugin
Atom Plugin
Plugin
Xcode Plugin
Plugin
Visual Studio Plugin
Plugin
Eclipse Plugin
Plugin
NetBeans Plugin
Plugin
Zed Plugin
Plugin
Notepad++ Plugin
Plugin
Brackets Plugin
Plugin
TextMate Plugin
Plugin
Komodo Plugin
Plugin
Geany Plugin
Plugin
Gedit Plugin
Plugin
Kate Plugin
Plugin
Nova Plugin
Plugin
Micro Plugin
Plugin
Kakoune Plugin
Plugin
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Plugin
Plugin
Office Add-ins Plugin
Plugin
Delphi Plugin
Plugin
Coda Plugin
Plugin
Cloud9 Plugin
Plugin
Wing IDE Plugin
Plugin
SlickEdit Plugin
Plugin
IDA Pro Plugin
Plugin
Eric IDE Plugin
Plugin
macOS System Tray (tracks Xcode, Figma, Postman, etc.)
Plugin
Windows & Linux Desktop System Tray
Plugin
Chrome / browser extension
Plugin
Figma Plugin
Plugin
Sketch Plugin
Plugin
Adobe XD Plugin
Plugin
Blender Plugin
Plugin
Godot Plugin
Plugin
Unity Plugin
Plugin
Roblox Studio Plugin
Plugin
Obsidian Plugin
Plugin
JupyterLab Plugin
Plugin
Zotero Plugin
Plugin
Discord BetterDiscord Plugin
Plugin
Discord Vencord Plugin
Plugin
Python REPL Plugin (repl-python-wakatime)
Plugin
Processing 3 Plugin
Plugin
TeXstudio Plugin
Plugin
ReclassEx Plugin
Plugin
Codex Plugin
Plugin
Claude Code Plugin (track Claude Code AI coding time)
Plugin
Camunda Modeler Plugin
Plugin
WakaTime Mobile (dashboard viewer)
Tools
MCP Server (geeknees, Node.js, third-party)
Tools
MCP Server (geeknees Ruby implementation, third-party)
Tools
MCP Server (dpshde, third-party)
Tools
MCP Server (pipeworx-io, third-party)
Tools

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