Deeredeere.com
Deere's API program shows strong fundamentals in API design and operational reliability, giving partners a solid technical foundation to build on. However, the program's weakest areas — onboarding and agent discovery — create real friction: partners cannot self-serve their way to a first call, and AI agents cannot find or reason about the APIs without human intervention.
API DesignA clean, typed, well-governed API contract agents can reason about1 pass2 warn0 fail87A
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| warn | Schema coverage & depthvia sdk | 24.9/25 | 319/324 (98%) public params are fully typed (no any/**kwargs). Analyzer reports not all methods have a derivable input schema. Investigated: sdk 100%. | Typed, complete request/response schemas are what make agent function-calling possible. |
| pass | Example coveragevia sdk | 10/10 | README is present and includes a runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 100%, docs 0%. | Examples carry shape semantics schemas under-specify — for humans and agents alike. |
| warn | Security & governance hygienevia wellknown | 7.5/15 | security.txt present but missing Contact; missing or expired Expires. Investigated: wellknown 50%. | No leaked secrets, no critical lint violations, no OWASP API Top-10 spec smells, and a published vulnerability-disclosure channel. |
| na | Machine-readable, versioned contract | —/25 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | A current OpenAPI version with a declared versioning scheme lets agents reason about the contract. |
| na | Auth declared & discoverable | —/25 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | Agents can only authenticate when auth is declared, scoped, and discoverable. |
Developer ExperienceThe context both developers and agents need to integrate fast — onboarding, code samples, complete descriptions and worked examples1 pass0 warn3 fail44F
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pass | Description completenessvia sdk | 15/15 | 114/114 operations carry a description. Investigated: sdk 100%. | Complete descriptions are the context humans and agents need to use endpoints. |
| fail | Self-service developer portalvia docs | 0/29 | No signup page detected across conventional paths (/signup, /sign-up, /register, /get-started, /console/signup, /dashboard/signup, /try, /try-free, /free, /free-trial, /start, /start-free). Investigated: docs 0%. | Self-serve key/account creation is the fast first call for partners, with no sales gate. |
| fail | Quickstart presentvia docs | 0/25 | No quickstart/getting-started page found at the conventional paths. Investigated: docs 0%. | A quickstart is the fastest path from landing page to first successful call. |
| fail | Code samples in docsvia docs | 0/18 | No detectable code samples across 1 sampled docs pages. Investigated: docs 0%. | Multi-language samples shorten time-to-first-call. |
| na | Changelog published | —/13 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | A published changelog lets partners track changes without surprise. |
Agent DiscoveryPartners and their agents can find your APIs — llms.txt, registries, crawlable and reachable docs0 pass3 warn1 fail59D
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| warn | Docs reachable, not hard auth-gatedvia docs | 22.5/30 | Server ignores Accept: text/markdown header (0/1 pages return markdown). Investigated: docs 75%. | Agents can only index and fetch docs they can reach — past auth gates and over correct HTTP semantics. |
| warn | Registry & SDK presencevia sdk | 18.7/28 | No official SDKs discovered via npm, PyPI, or GitHub. Investigated: sdk 67%, docs 0%, cli 0%. | Listing in MCP registries and publishing SDKs puts the API where agents and their tooling look. |
| warn | Crawlable / AEOvia wellknown | 6/12 | No sitemap discoverable via robots.txt or /sitemap.xml on the docs host. Investigated: wellknown 50%. | Bots allowed plus a fresh sitemap make docs findable by agent crawlers. |
| fail | llms.txt present, valid & comprehensivevia docs | 0/30 | No llms.txt found at any candidate location (https://developer.deere.com/llms.txt, https://developer.deere.com/docs/llms.txt). Investigated: docs 0%, sdk 0%. | A valid, comprehensive llms.txt is the machine-readable entry point for agents. |
Agent UnderstandingAgents can correctly interpret your APIs — machine-readable errors, consistent descriptions, structured data, parseable docs1 pass1 warn3 fail64C
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pass | Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457)via sdk | 28/28 | Single base error "DeereError" with 14 subclasses. Investigated: sdk 100%. | RFC 9457 problem details and a documented error-code inventory let agents parse failures without burning tokens. |
| warn | Agent-navigable, token-efficient docsvia docs | 12.6/22 | 1 of 1 pages appear to be client-side rendered SPA shells (__next detected); agents using HTTP fetches will see no content. Investigated: docs 57%. | Server-rendered, clean, small-footprint docs are what an agent can cheaply fetch and parse correctly. |
| fail | Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md)via wellknown | 0/10 | No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%. | An AGENTS.md gives coding agents explicit setup, auth, and usage instructions to interpret and operate the API — beyond llms.txt's link index. |
| fail | Docs structured datavia docs | 0/8 | Neither JSON-LD nor OpenGraph/meta tags detected across 1 assessed pages (1 JS-rendered). Investigated: docs 0%. | Structured data (JSON-LD/schema.org) on docs pages gives agents an unambiguous parse target and is what answer engines cite. Detected on the JS-rendered head (Firecrawl) for a bounded page budget, so JS-injected JSON-LD is now caught; pages we can't render are excluded rather than failed. |
| fail | Description consistency across surfaces | 0/7 | Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (docs, sdk) is 0% (threshold 35% for full credit). | Every surface tells the same story about what the product is. |
| na | Operation purpose clarity | —/25 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | Agents select the right endpoint from its summary + operationId; clear, named operations make tool-selection reliable — the strongest driver of correct tool choice. |
Agent UsabilityAgents have the context to use your APIs reliably, not just find them2 pass1 warn1 fail88A
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pass | Idempotency documentedvia sdk | 27/27 | Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%. | Documented idempotency lets agents retry safely. |
| warn | Pagination documented & consistentvia sdk | 20.2/22 | 45/49 list method(s) return an auto-paginating iterable. Investigated: sdk 92%. | Consistent, documented pagination lets agents traverse collections. |
| pass | Sandbox separationvia sdk | 20/20 | Sandbox environments are exposed (sandbox). Investigated: sdk 100%. | An isolated environment lets agents exercise destructive operations safely. |
| fail | Runnable collection with test scriptsvia platform | 0/9 | No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%. | A public, maintained collection with assertions is runnable truth agents validate against. |
| na | Rate-limit signaling | —/22 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | Machine-readable rate-limit headers let agents throttle adaptively. |