◎ Discry Score
adafruit.com.com
commerce · API
D
0 / 100
DISCOVERY0
COMPREHENSION0
Category leader: 95 (A)
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adafruit.com is Poor to agents.

Discry independently scored how well an AI agent can discover and understand the adafruit.com API from what’s public — not whether it’s usable. Below: every signal we checked, what’s costing the score, and what to change.

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SCORED UNDER RUBRIC 1.2 · A full re-launch under Discry Score 2.5 — a new behavioral instrument, not comparable to these scores — is in progress.

Discovery

45% of score · 31/100
OpenAPI specA machine-readable OpenAPI/Swagger spec agents can parse.Fail
llms.txtAn llms.txt index that points agents to the docs that matter.Fail
llms.txt qualityThe llms.txt is focused, current, and well under the size budget.Fail
llms-full.txtA full-text bundle agents can load in one request.Fail
AGENTS.mdAn AGENTS.md that tells coding agents how to build on the API.Partial
.well-known/mcp.jsonA discoverable MCP manifest at a well-known path.Fail
MCP registryThe API is listed in a public MCP registry.Fail
robots.txt AI directivesrobots.txt allows (or explicitly guides) AI crawlers.Pass
SitemapA sitemap so agents can enumerate the docs surface.Pass

Comprehension

55% of score · 50/100
Task-oriented descriptionsEndpoints described by what they accomplish, not just their shape.Partial
Realistic examplesRunnable, real-world request/response examples.Partial
Multi-step workflowsDocs that chain calls into complete jobs an agent can follow.Fail
Error-recovery guidanceDocumented failure modes and how to recover from them.Fail
Answer-first formatThe answer leads; preamble does not bury it.Pass
Capability boundariesClear limits — what the API can and cannot do.Partial
Naming consistencyConsistent, predictable naming across endpoints.Partial
Heading hierarchyClean heading structure agents can navigate.Pass
Markdown docsDocs available as clean markdown, not JS-rendered HTML only.Partial
Token efficiencyDocs are concise enough to fit an agent context window.Pass

What we found

  • An agent can learn the entire API from a single ~1,000-token page — all four endpoints, full field schemas, and usage rules fit in one read, which is exceptional token efficiency.
  • There is no machine-readable surface at all: no OpenAPI spec, no llms.txt, no MCP presence. An agent must parse a human-oriented HTML page to use an API that would take an afternoon to spec formally.
  • robots.txt disallows /api/ for ALL crawlers — a crawler-based agent is barred from the very endpoints the documentation invites it to call, so the API is invisible to crawl-driven discovery.
  • Error behavior is completely undocumented: an agent that exceeds the 5 req/min limit or requests an unknown product ID discovers what happens only by failing, with no recovery guidance.
  • The docs contain real, copy-pasteable example URLs (product 998 = Raspberry Pi Model B, category 118 = Lasers) but zero code samples and zero example JSON responses.

What to change

Prioritized by impact on discoverability. You (or your docs platform) deploy these — Discry never touches your API.

  1. 01Publish an OpenAPI spec for the four endpoints (/api/products, /api/categories, /api/product/[pid], /api/category/[cid]) — with a schema this small it is a quick win and the single largest discovery-score improvement available.
  2. 02Add an llms.txt at www.adafruit.com/llms.txt that describes the Products API and links to /products_api and the endpoint URLs.
  3. 03Add example JSON responses and a curl sample for each endpoint using the realistic IDs already cited in the docs.
  4. 04Document error responses: the status code and body returned for unknown IDs and for exceeding the 5 req/min rate limit, plus any rate-limit headers agents should read.
  5. 05Normalize the field-name prefixes (product_id vs products_description, sub_categories vs subcategories) or explicitly document the inconsistency so agents don't mis-key responses.

Execution coverage · INFORMATIONAL, UNSCORED

Whether an agent can actually complete a call and recover from errors is the deeper Audit layer — documented here, but not part of the Discry Score.

none (public API, no authentication documented) Error format documented Rate limits documented Pagination documented Idempotency documented

Read-only public JSON catalog API with no auth. A 5 requests/minute rate limit is stated in prose, but no rate-limit headers, exceeded-limit behavior, error format, or pagination are documented anywhere.

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