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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ranked #16 in the QS World University Rankings. Its programmable footprint is real but sharply bifurcated, and it is one of the few institutions in this cohort that operates its own contracts rather than only buying them. On the open side Yale runs LUX (lux.collections.yale.edu), a cross-collection discovery platform serving Linked Art JSON-LD over more than 41 million cultural-heritage records, built and published openly by Yale's own project-lux engineering organization; Yale Dataverse (dataverse.yale.edu), a self-hosted research-data repository on Yale's own AWS infrastructure minting DOIs under Yale's own DataCite prefix 10.60600; IIIF Presentation 3.0 manifests from Yale University Library Digital Collections; and a signed SAML 2.0 Shibboleth identity-provider metadata document registered in InCommon. All four were probed live and answer anonymously. On the closed side, developers.yale.edu is a genuine institution-operated developer portal documenting eleven Enterprise (SOA) services and four Portal APIs — Buildings, Courses, Course Subjects, GatewayServiceMetrics — but Yale's own pages describe these as internal and private: the SOA tier uses basic authentication via a provisioned service account, and a Portal API key can only be requested by someone holding a valid Yale NetID. The gateway at gw.its.yale.edu is live and answers an anonymous call with "Invalid API Key", so the surface exists and is simply not open. An earlier profile of this repository described the Courses Web Service as returning "public information"; that is corrected here. Two further surfaces carry Yale's name but not Yale's engineering and are recorded as tenant relationships rather than as Yale contracts: EliScholar (elischolar.library.yale.edu), whose OAI-PMH endpoint is live but whose Identify response gives an Elsevier bepress Digital Commons admin contact, and the course catalog at courses.yale.edu / catalog.yale.edu, which is a Leepfrog CourseLeaf tenancy. Yale publishes no open-data portal, no llms.txt and no security.txt.

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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 Yale University the way a machine reads it — 41 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 — Yale University scores 48.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 23/100 (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. 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.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile Yale University

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Yale University. 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 13

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.

LUX Collections Discovery — Search API

Search and discovery across LUX scopes, returning Linked Art OrderedCollectionPage documents in JSON-LD. LUX is Yale's own platform: the frontend, middle tier, Varnish cache, Ma...

LUX Collections Discovery — Documents API

Retrieves a single entity from LUX as a Linked Art JSON-LD document by type and identifier. Institution-operated on lux.collections.yale.edu.

LUX Collections Discovery — Facets API

Faceted aggregation over LUX search results, returning an OrderedCollectionPage of facet values and occurrence counts. Institution-operated on lux.collections.yale.edu.

LUX Collections Discovery — Related API

Related-entity discovery across LUX, returning an OrderedCollectionPage of documents connected to a given URI. Institution-operated on lux.collections.yale.edu.

LUX Collections Discovery — Configuration API

Advanced-search configuration metadata for LUX, describing searchable terms by scope, search options and stop words. Verified 200 returning 43,502 bytes of JSON on 2026-08-19.

Yale API Portal — Portal APIs

Yale's institution-operated developer portal documents four Portal APIs — Buildings (name and location of Yale campus buildings), Courses, Course Subjects and GatewayServiceMetr...

Yale Courses Web Service v3

Returns course-offering information for a given termCode and subjectCode — titles, descriptions, instructors, meeting times, prerequisites and distributional designations — in J...

Yale Enterprise (SOA) Services

Eleven services delivered by Yale's Integration Competency Center covering Yale identities (People Hub — PeopleService, GetPeopleService, LimitedPeopleService, SearchByIndividua...

EliScholar OAI-PMH (bepress Digital Commons tenancy)

EliScholar is Yale's digital platform for scholarly publishing, and its OAI-PMH endpoint is live — Identify returned protocol version 2.0 with repositoryName "EliScholar – A Dig...

Yale Course Search and University Publications (CourseLeaf tenancy)

Yale Course Search (courses.yale.edu) and the Yale University Publications bulletin (catalog.yale.edu) are the institution's public course-catalog surfaces. Both are Leepfrog Co...

Yale University Federation API

SAML 2.0 entity metadata

Yale University IIIF API

IIIF Presentation 3.0 manifests for digitized objects

Yale University Info API

Deployment identity, version and metrics

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Open Collections 6

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).

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.

Yale Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

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.

Yale Rate Limits

1 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.

Yale Finops

FINOPS

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.

Yale Context

10 classes · 17 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.

Yale University API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Yale University API Rules

6 rules · 2 errors · 3 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.

LUX Linked Art Entity

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LUX OrderedCollection

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LUX OrderedCollectionPage

7 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.

Yale Linkedartentity Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Yale Orderedcollectionpage Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 7

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.

Yale Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Yale Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · 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.

Yale Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 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.

Yale Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Yale University — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Yale University, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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