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Sixteen years of API research as MCP tools — stories, areas, governance blocks & services
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get_overview — START HERE. What the API Evangelist network offers: sixteen years of API research as searchable stories, 77 topic areas, governance buildingguide_topic — PRO — Curated guide to one API topic (e.g. "gateways", "api governance", "discovery", "agents"). Bundles the matching topic area (with relatfind_services — The services API Evangelist offers teams and customers — API strategy, governance, discovery, and evangelism engagements by Kin Lane. The frget_service — Full detail for one service offering by slug; include=["content"] inlines the full pitch.find_solutions — The solutions registry — 740+ third-party API services and tools (gateways, portals, testing, monitoring, …) ranked by adoption across the cget_solution — One solution from the vendor registry by slug, with its website and adoption count.find_tools — The open-source tooling registry — 400+ tools in use across the companies API Evangelist tracks, each with adoption counts and technology-raget_tool — One tool from the tooling registry by slug, with its website, adoption count, and radar ring.get_contact — Every way to reach API Evangelist — email, contact form, newsletter, GitHub, social channels, and postal mail.search_api_evangelist — Unified search across the whole network: 5k+ stories, 77 topic areas, 2.5k governance building blocks, papers, conversations, videos, tools,find_posts — Search or browse 5,100+ API Evangelist stories (2010–present); filter by year or tags.get_post — One story by slug (YYYY-MM-DD-slug); include=["content"] returns the full markdown body.find_areas — The 77 focused topic areas of the network (agents, gateways, security, …), each a subsite with its own catalog.get_area — One topic area with its related-area graph resolved — walk the network from here.find_building_blocks — Search the governance building blocks by type: guidance (177), rules (617), policies (283), standards (432), strategies (75), schema (11), pget_building_block — One building block by type + slug; include=["content"] returns the full body.find_conversations — API Evangelist Conversations — recorded discussions with API practitioners (guest, company, YouTube/SoundCloud links).get_conversation — One conversation with guest detail and media links; include=["content"] returns the writeup.find_papers — API Evangelist papers — single-PDF deep dives on one practice or topic, with outlines.get_paper — One paper with its full outline and purchase/landing URL.find_videos — The API Evangelist video library — interviews and discussions from across the API space, searchable by transcript.get_video — One video by slug with its YouTube id; include=["content"] returns the full transcript.get_timeline — One of the four research timelines in chronological order: api (the moments that shaped web APIs), resources (which digital resources becameget_guidance_section — One editorial guidance section as a list: history, technology, business, politics, governance, or evangelism — the six lenses API Evangelistfind_vocabulary — The API vocabulary — thousands of resources, actions, personas, domains, schemas, and tags extracted from the API landscape. Filter by categget_feeds — The static machine-readable feeds every network site publishes (JSON, APIs.json, zero-auth) — the no-key alternative to this API.find_tags — Browse and rank the network tag taxonomy — every subject tag across 16k+ docs, by frequency or breadth (how many content types use it). Searget_tag — One tag with its per-type counts and everything it labels across the whole network (stories, areas, guidance, papers, …). Filter with types.find_related — Given any doc (type + slug), the most related content across the whole network, ranked by shared-tag relevance (rare, specific tags weigh moget_stats — PRO — catalog intelligence: per-type counts, stories-per-year, and the top tags by reach across the network.find_company_insights — Browse profiled companies (Fortune 1000 + API providers) by name; ranked by technology-readiness signal. Free.insights_dimensions — Cross-section ranking of the 40 tracked investment dimensions (AI, cloud, governance, …) by company signal. Free.insights_adoption — Services, tools, or standards ranked by how many companies adopt them. Free.get_company_insight — Full demand-side profile for one company: 40-dimension readiness, adopted stack, per-quarter history. Pro.company_gaps — A company's weakest investment dimensions — where it is thin. Pro.company_dimensions — PRO — a company's investment dimensions, each read AGAINST the measured cohort: the cohort median, mean and max, this company's rank and percompany_peers — PRO — the companies most comparable to this one (same sub-sector where the data supports it, same industry otherwise), each with signal totacompany_whitespace — PRO — what this company's peers run that it does not, ranked by how many peers carry it. The opening list for a vendor selling into the accocompany_signals — PRO — the company's adopted stack entity by entity (services, tools, standards), each with how many companies across the cohort carry it andfind_entities — Browse the demand-side entity catalog — every service, tool and standard companies are measured against, ranked by how many carry it. Free. Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.