Rechargepaymentsrechargepayments.com
Recharge Payments demonstrates strong API design fundamentals and solid agent understanding, but the partner program has critical gaps in discoverability, onboarding, and safe integration that will block both partners and AI agents before they can make a single call. The most urgent priorities are establishing a discoverable, self-serve front door with machine-readable documentation, and providing runnable, sandbox-safe workflows that let partners — and the agents they bring — go from zero to productive without a sales conversation or fear of hitting production data.
API DesignA clean, typed, well-governed API contract agents can reason about3 pass1 warn1 fail81A
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pass | Machine-readable, versioned contractvia spec | 25/25 | API versioning documented in the docs site at https://docs.getrecharge.com/docs/api-versions. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%. | A current OpenAPI version with a declared versioning scheme lets agents reason about the contract. |
| pass | Auth declared & discoverablevia spec | 25/25 | Authentication required (global or on every operation). Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%. | Agents can only authenticate when auth is declared, scoped, and discoverable. |
| pass | Security & governance hygienevia spec | 15/15 | No credential-shaped strings detected in spec. Investigated: spec 100%, wellknown 0%. | No leaked secrets, no critical lint violations, no OWASP API Top-10 spec smells, and a published vulnerability-disclosure channel. |
| warn | Schema coverage & depthvia spec | 12.5/25 | Only 30% of operations have documented schemas. Investigated: spec 50%. | Typed, complete request/response schemas are what make agent function-calling possible. |
| fail | Example coveragevia spec | 0/10 | 0% example coverage. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%. | Examples carry shape semantics schemas under-specify — for humans and agents alike. |
Developer ExperienceThe context both developers and agents need to integrate fast — onboarding, code samples, complete descriptions and worked examples1 pass1 warn3 fail49F
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pass | Description completenessvia spec | 15/15 | 66% description completeness (target 90%+). Investigated: spec 100%. | Complete descriptions are the context humans and agents need to use endpoints. |
| warn | Quickstart presentvia docs | 12.5/25 | Quickstart page reachable (24 variants scanned starting at https://developer.rechargepayments.com/2021-11/quickstart) but no runnable code sample detected in HTML or .md variant. Investigated: docs 50%. | A quickstart is the fastest path from landing page to first successful call. |
| 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 | 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. |
| fail | Changelog publishedvia spec | 0/13 | No changelog URL or mention found in spec metadata. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%, sdk 0%. | 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 pass2 warn2 fail47F
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| warn | Docs reachable, not hard auth-gatedvia docs | 15/30 | 1 of 1 pages return 200 for non-existent URLs (soft 404). Investigated: docs 50%. | Agents can only index and fetch docs they can reach — past auth gates and over correct HTTP semantics. |
| warn | Crawlable / AEOvia wellknown | 9/12 | Sitemap present (0 entries) but carries no lastmod values. Investigated: wellknown 75%. | 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.rechargepayments.com/2021-11/llms.txt, https://developer.rechargepayments.com/llms.txt, https://developer.rechargepayments.com/docs/llms.txt). Investigated: docs 0%. | A valid, comprehensive llms.txt is the machine-readable entry point for agents. |
| fail | Registry & SDK presencevia docs | 0/28 | Not indexed on Context7 — agents can't pull this API's docs on demand via Context7. Investigated: docs 0%, sdk 0%, cli 0%. | Listing in MCP registries and publishing SDKs puts the API where agents and their tooling look. |
Agent UnderstandingAgents can correctly interpret your APIs — machine-readable errors, consistent descriptions, structured data, parseable docs2 pass2 warn2 fail75B
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pass | Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457)via spec | 28/28 | Only 3 distinct 4xx/5xx codes documented (plus 0 "default" catch-all responses). Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%. | RFC 9457 problem details and a documented error-code inventory let agents parse failures without burning tokens. |
| pass | Operation purpose clarityvia spec | 25/25 | 100% of operations have a clear summary + operationId an agent can select on. Investigated: spec 100%. | Agents select the right endpoint from its summary + operationId; clear, named operations make tool-selection reliable — the strongest driver of correct tool choice. |
| warn | Agent-navigable, token-efficient docsvia docs | 15.7/22 | No pages support .md URLs (0/1 tested). Investigated: docs 71%. | Server-rendered, clean, small-footprint docs are what an agent can cheaply fetch and parse correctly. |
| warn | Description consistency across surfaces | 1.3/7 | Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (spec, docs) is 6% (threshold 35% for full credit). | Every surface tells the same story about what the product is. |
| 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. |
Agent UsabilityAgents have the context to use your APIs reliably, not just find them1 pass0 warn3 fail49F
| Signal | Points | Findings | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pass | Rate-limit signalingvia spec | 22/22 | rate-limit behavior documented in the docs site at https://docs.getrecharge.com/docs/api-rate-limits. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%. | Machine-readable rate-limit headers let agents throttle adaptively. |
| fail | Idempotency documentedvia spec | 0/27 | 0% of mutating operations document idempotency. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%. | Documented idempotency lets agents retry safely. |
| fail | Sandbox separationvia spec | 0/20 | No sandbox/test server declared across 1 server entries; no test-key prefixes documented. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%. | 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 | Pagination documented & consistent | —/22 | No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run. | Consistent, documented pagination lets agents traverse collections. |
Resources Discovered
The public resources we found for Rechargepayments — the evidence behind the score. All discovered from public sources; nothing here requires access to your systems.
| APIs analyzed | 1 — Recharge API |
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