The Trooth application programming interface (API) answers questions about software and AI companies from published records. Every endpoint in this reference is a read over an encrypted connection, in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), with no key and no account. Public calls that change state, such as subscribing an endpoint to a company's changes, are named in the interface catalog with their side effects.

Each answer carries its own limits:

• Where a fact came from.
• When Trooth last read it.
• What Trooth did not read.

No response contains a rating, grade or rank, and the schema refuses one.

What you can build

• A vendor check inside your own toolResolve a domain to its Trust Profile: witnessed, declared and unknown, each labeled.
• Search over the NetworkSearch or typeahead over the public directory's companies, paged by cursor.
• An agent that cites its sourcesConnect an assistant to the Model Context Protocol server so it reads sourced, dated records instead of guessing.
• An alert when a posture changesGet a signed event when what Trooth witnessed about a published profile changes.

What is not offered

There is no write endpoint, test environment, software development kit (SDK) or credentialed public API; alternatives are given below.

Listed means live now. Anything not listed is not live; Trooth does not advertise unshipped endpoints.

• Public Trust Profile JSONWitnessed state and the date it was last read, for any listed company.
• Embeddable witnessed badgeA company's live record on its own site in one line.
• Webhooks for driftPosture changes push to your tools.
• OpenAPI 3.1 contractServed at /openapi.json, generated from the routes and checked on every build.
• Trooth CLInpx trooth check <domain> reads a public record from the terminal, and trooth lint reads what your own repository declares, locally. The package is trooth on npm. No account required.
• trooth-openapi on GitHubThe OpenAPI 3.1 contracts for both public hosts. Apache 2.0.
• trooth-mcp on GitHubThe read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector: its server.json and setup for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. MIT.
• trooth-cli on GitHubThe source of the trooth package on npm. Apache 2.0.

1. Check the prerequisites

   Any client that speaks an encrypted connection; the samples need Node.js 18+ or Python 3.8+. No account, no key.

2. Read a Trust Profile

   Send GET /api/network/profile with a domain in q; q=trooth.co always has an answer.

3. Branch on found, not on the status alone

   An unknown company is 200 with { "found": false }, an answer. A 503 means Trooth could not read its own record and says nothing about the company.

4. Read each fact with its origin

   Every entry in facts carries origin: company-declared, Trooth-witnessed or public. Show it beside the value.

5. Pin the contract

   Send Trooth-Contract: 2 so no change of meaning arrives unannounced. The response names the contract that served it in the same header.

That works. Next, page with the cursor, follow changes, and read the production checklist.

The public application programming interface (API) needs none: every endpoint reads published records.

Trooth's authenticated endpoints run the workspaces, are session scoped and are deliberately not public: a documented route map helps attackers and promises unsupported integrations. A credentialed API, if built, will be published here with scopes.

Errors are JSON with an error field; the status code carries the meaning:

• 400: the request was malformed. The body names the field.
• 404: the Network holds no such record. An answer, not a failure.
• 429: a rate limit. Honor Retry-After when present; otherwise pause and retry once.
• 502 and 503: Trooth could not read its upstream, which says nothing about the company. Retry with a bound.
• 5xx: ours. Retry with the same bound.

Problem details, and the request id

Every API response has an X-Request-Id: send your own (20 to 200 letters, digits, + / = -) or get one. Quote it when reporting failures; a W3C traceparent you send is continued.

Send Accept: application/problem+json to /api/network/profile or /api/network/profile/history for RFC 9457 problem documents; otherwise the body is unchanged.

The document carries:

• code, stable, and type, which links to that code below.
• retryable, with retry_after and retry_at when a wait is known.
• next_action.
• errors, naming the parameter or field.
• request_id, the same value as the header.

• invalid_request 400 The request could not be read as sent. Next: fix_request.
• missing_parameter 400 A required parameter is missing. Next: fix_request.
• unsupported_contract_version 400 That contract version is not served. Next: fix_request.
• invalid_cursor 400 That page marker cannot be used. Next: start_over.
• cursor_expired 400 That page marker has expired. Next: start_over.
• not_found 404 No published record answers to that identifier. Next: none.
• version_not_found 404 That record version is not published. Next: none.
• beyond_retention 410 That position is older than the change history keeps. Next: resync.
• rate_limited 429 Too many requests. Next: retry_later.
• busy 429 A request like this one is still running. Next: retry_later.
• limiter_unavailable 503 The request limiter could not be reached. Next: retry_later.
• capacity_saturated 503 Trooth is running as many of these as it allows at once. Next: retry_later.
• record_unavailable 503 The record could not be read on this request. Next: retry_later.
• history_unavailable 503 Record history is not available on this deployment. Next: use_current_record.

Retries, and where they stop

Three rules. The third is the one most often left out.

• Retry only the classes that can change. That is 429, 502, 503 and other 5xx, never 400 or 404. On a refused cursor, restart from page one, once.
• Count the attempts and stop. Back off, cap attempts and pages, and surface the failure.
• An outage is not a finding. A 503 does not mean no record; keep the last good answer or show the failed read.

Per IP address, per minute and per hour; over either, 429 with a plain JSON message.

Only comparison is rate limited by this site: 20 requests a minute and 200 an hour per address.

Read the header before waiting. Whether Retry-After is sent depends on the route, not the status:

• GET /api/public-mesh/{handle} sends one with its 503.
• Some credentialed workspace routes send one with their 429.
• The 429 from comparison does not.

If present, wait that long; if absent, back off and cap attempts (see Errors).

Comparison fans out, so it is the tightest; other reads are edge-cached:

• Directory and typeahead: a sixty second edge cache.
• Company records: one hundred and twenty seconds.
• A legal document: an hour.

Use the cursor. Send limit, then each returned next_cursor as cursor until next_cursor is null. An unreadable cursor answers 400, not an empty page.

The order, and the tie-break

The cursor carries the sort key, four fields in order:

1. Whether the company is witnessed.
2. When it was last witnessed, most recent first.
3. The lowercased name.
4. The company's own identifier.

The identifier breaks ties between companies that share a name.

So every row has one position. The key is in lib/directory-rank.ts; the comparator derives from it.

What the cursor prevents

It prevents the offset failure. With offsets, companies listed mid-walk shift rows, so you silently get some twice and miss others.

A cursor names a position, so inserted rows do not shift it.

What it does not prevent

It is not a snapshot, and there is nothing to pin. Each request reads the live directory; there is no snapshot id, as-of parameter or version boundary.

Two sort-key fields move (whether and when a company was witnessed), with two unmarked outcomes:

• An omission. A company ahead of you is witnessed mid-walk; its key moves behind your cursor and you never see it.
• A duplicate. A company you received stops being witnessed mid-walk; its key moves ahead and you get it twice.

No cursor prevents either; a walk is best-effort discovery over a list that changes, not a consistent view of the Network.

Deduplicating, and resynchronizing

Drop repeats by slug. The omission is undetectable within one walk:

• For a complete set, walk twice and reconcile.
• Keep walks short, so the list moves less.
• For a boundary, use the rows' last_scan, not your request time.

The marker always advances, so a walk cannot loop, but pages are unbounded: rows added ahead of you are served too.

Cap the pages, never resend a marker, and stop on a null next_cursor, not an empty page.

Expiry, and what the cursor is not bound to

The cursor does not expire. It holds a payload version and a position, no issue time, so old markers still work.

These get a 400 naming the reason, never a silent reset to page one:

• A marker from an older payload version.
• A marker that cannot be decoded.
• A marker issued to a workspace-scoped list, used on a public one.

The cursor is not bound to your query. q and industry are not in it, so another filter returns that filter's rows after the old position, like a short page.

Keep the filter beside the cursor. total is per request and changes between pages; do not count up to it.

The cursor is opaque and belongs to this list; do not parse, build or reuse it elsewhere, where it is refused.

The offset alias, and how to migrate off it

offset and next_offset still work for clients that shipped with them. They are deprecated:

• Responses paged by offset carry Deprecation and Link (rel="deprecation") headers pointing here.
• No withdrawal date is set, so no Sunset header is sent; the changelog would announce one first.

Migrating takes one step. Send the offset path's next_cursor as cursor and drop offset; with both, the cursor wins.

Every public endpoint documented here is a read, POST /api/network/batch included, so a repeat is always safe and needs no key.

Writes take one. Signed-in writes on trooth.co (publishing a profile, a domain claim, an invitation) accept an Idempotency-Key header of 8 to 255 characters, kept for 24 hours: the same key with the same request returns the stored answer, the same key with a different request is refused with 409, and the Idempotency-Status response header says which happened. Writes to api.trooth.co follow its own rule, set out under Authorization in the API documentation, where a reused key with a different request is 422.

The profile read is versioned: 2 is current; 1 and 2 are answered. Pick one with the Trooth-Contract header or contract parameter; send neither for the current one.

• Both, disagreeing, is refused with a 400.
• An unsupported version is refused with a 400; nothing is approximated.
• Every answer names its contract in the Trooth-Contract header and contractVersion, and the one you asked for in requestedContract.
• What moves the number: a removed or renamed field, or a changed meaning. Added fields do not; ignore unknown fields.

Deprecations and deadlines

Version 1 is withdrawn on 2027-03-01. It promises one answer per question, which holds only where no two sources disagree, so this version 1 response leaves out every fact two sources answered differently and names each in `withheldContested`; version 2 publishes them with every account in `conflicts`. Move to 2 and read `conflicts`. Until then, version 1 is still served, with Deprecation and dated Sunset headers.

Policy: API versioning. Each deprecation and deadline is announced first in the changelog.

There is one environment, production, and no test mode. Reads change nothing and cost nothing.

Production cannot put a company into a state on request. Two states are reliable:

• A .invalid domain, which can never be registered, returns found: false.
• A missing q returns 400.

For a failed read, a company with no observation and a contested fact, write fixtures from the schema; you will not meet these by chance.

Validate responses against the schema. The route is tested against it every push and deployment, so a failure is worth reporting.

Four stable objects underpin every Trooth surface. Fields are added, never silently changed.

Company record

Identity, products and witnessed posture for one company: stable slug, domains and last-witnessed state.

Evidence receipt

One signed reading (source, scope, timestamp, signature), the base unit.

Provenance label

A closed vocabulary for where a fact came from: Trooth witnessed, Re-read on a schedule, Integration supplied, Independent third-party, Declared, Public record, Customer reported, Disputed, Stale, Unknown.

Freshness stamp

Last witnessed date, expected cadence and stale behavior, to weigh a fact by age.

Every material fact carries its source. Three rules:

• Unknown is never no. An absent fact is no evidence either way, not a failing control.
• Stale is not the same as wrong. A fact past its refresh window keeps its value; weigh it by the record's last reading, since facts carry no date.
• Declared is not witnessed. Keep the two labels distinct wherever you show them.

The full vocabulary and how each state is reached is in the methodology.

One fact, in full

One entry from facts[] on GET /api/network/profile, a Trust Profile's unit:

{    "key": "hosting.production-regions",    "category": "Hosting",    "label": "Production regions",    "value": "us-east-1, eu-west-1",    "origin": "company-declared"  }

key is stable and category-scoped: Region under hosting and Region under registration are different questions.

origin is company-declared, witnessed or public-source. Blank values are not published, so unanswered reads as unanswered.

Disagreeing sources mark a fact contested, with every account under its key in top-level conflicts:

"conflicts": [    {      "key": "hosting.production-regions",      "category": "Hosting",      "label": "Production regions",      "accounts": [        { "origin": "company-declared", "value": "eu-west-1" },        { "origin": "witnessed", "value": "us-east-1, eu-west-1" }      ]    }  ]

On a contested fact, value is one account, not the answer. There is no winner field or preferred source; accounts follow a fixed origin order, not a ranking.

Five dimensions, and they are separate fields

Collapsing any two produces a wrong sentence about a real company.

• Provenance is facts[].origin, always present: a witnessed reading or a company's answer.
• Availability has three shapes: found: false (no record), a 503 (read failed, asserts nothing) and witnessed.standing: null (no observation on the last reading). Collapse them and an outage becomes a finding.
• Freshness is witnessed.lastWitnessed plus each category's methodology.freshness window, never a per-fact date.
• Dispute is contested and conflicts, shown above. Uncontested means nobody answered differently, not corroborated.
• Integrity covers one field; the response and a 200 are unsigned. If the reading behind witnessed was signed, witnessStatement holds the signed string in payload (facts, no verdict) and an Ed25519 signature, checked with the key_id key at verify/keys.

  Older readings have no statement; all other fields are unsigned.

Each response lists in contractOmissions what the contract deliberately leaves out:

• No confidence number, per fact or overall.
• No adjudication between disagreeing sources.
• No completeness signal.
• No merging of two wordings that look equivalent.

Contract version, and the alias still answered

Every response carries contractVersion (2 today). It moves only for a removed or renamed field or a changed meaning, never an added field.

Still answered: 1 and 2. Pin one; stop on unexpected values.

Version 1 is withdrawn on 2027-03-01. It promises one answer per question, which holds only where no two sources disagree, so this version 1 response leaves out every fact two sources answered differently and names each in `withheldContested`; version 2 publishes them with every account in `conflicts`. Move to 2 and read `conflicts`. Until then, each version 1 response repeats this in deprecation.

Fourteen operations, all credential-free reads of published data. The contract, /openapi.json (OpenAPI 3.1), is generated from source and checked every build.

• GET /api/compareCompare companies side by side
• GET /api/legal/{slug}A published legal document
• GET /api/mobile/directory/featuredCompanies with a witnessed record
• GET /api/mobile/directory/searchSearch the Trooth Network
• GET /api/mobile/directory/vendor/{slug}One company record
• POST /api/network/batchCheck many companies in one call
• GET /api/network/changesEvery record version across the Network
• GET /api/network/changes/streamEvery record version, as Server-Sent Events
• GET /api/network/profileOne company's canonical profile and witness facts
• GET /api/network/searchDiscover companies by several criteria
• GET /api/network/suggestTypeahead over published companies
• GET /api/problemsEvery error code and whether retrying can help
• GET /api/public-mesh/{handle}A company's public evidence rollup
• GET /api/versionThe deployment currently serving

Each operation below lists its parameters, its answers and a request you can copy.

One company's canonical profile and witness facts.

Public Network API, no key · the canonical company read

The canonical published profile for a company, keyed by domain or slug, with the witness facts a buyer's tool needs: the standing field (the witnessed state), lastWitnessed (freshness), firstWitnessedAt and the unbroken run of Trooth's own hourly readings (continuity), and checksPassed out of checksRun on the signed result (coverage: checks that read as expected, out of checks run). Continuity is never claimed older than Trooth's own record and stays null until two consecutive readings agree. Responds { found: false } with 200 when no profile is published, 400 when q is missing. Cached at the edge for 120 seconds. Every response carries a methodology object stating the reading cadence, the gap tolerance that defines an unbroken series, the retention period, the per-category freshness windows, and an explicit list of coverage limits - what Trooth does not read. A caller restating witnessed or updatedAt elsewhere must carry those limits with it: neither field is a certification nor an audit opinion. Only the witness statement is signed; the profile, its facts and the company's text are not (see signing). sectionCapabilities links the section map, which says which sections this record and the other projections carry. Limited to 600 requests a minute and 20,000 an hour per client network (an IPv4 address, or an IPv6 /64), counted across server instances; over either window the answer is 429 with Retry-After set to the seconds until that window resets. If the counting store fails, each instance counts alone at the same ceilings and the read is not refused. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

qstring, in queryRequired

Company domain (example.com) or Trooth slug.

contractstring, in query

Pin the response contract version, here or in the Trooth-Contract request header (not both with different values, which is refused with 400). Omit for the current contract. A version this deployment does not answer is refused with 400 rather than approximated. Every response names the contract that served it in the Trooth-Contract response header and in contractVersion, and the one requested in requestedContract; a request for contract 1 is served contract 1 itself, with Deprecation and Sunset headers, until its withdrawal on 2027-03-01, leaving out every fact two sources answered differently and naming each in withheldContested.

sectionsstring, in query

Comma-separated categories to return facts from: identity, registration, hosting, pricing, pricing-add-ons, security, privacy, privacy-roles, recovery, ai-practices. Omit for all. An unknown name is refused with 400 and the valid list; a section's conflicts travel with its facts.

limitstring, in query

Facts per page, 1 to 200. With limit or after, a page carries up to 100 facts unless limit says otherwise; with neither, the response carries every fact in the selected sections. The response's selection object says how many facts the selected sections hold, how many this page carries and whether it was truncated.

afterstring, in query

The selection.next cursor from the previous page. It is bound to the record version and to the sections asked for: if the company publishes a new version between pages, the cursor is refused with 400 (stale_cursor) rather than served from a different record. A cursor also expires 24 hours after the page that issued it and is then refused with 400 (cursor_expired).

Returns

200

The record, or { found: false } when the Network holds none. Which body is served is keyed by the Trooth-Contract response header: 2 (the default) is NetworkProfileV2, written to the published JSON Schema https://trooth.co/schemas/network-profile.v2.schema.json and validated against it on every push and after every deployment; 1 is NetworkProfileV1, deprecated, served only to a caller that pinned contract 1, with Deprecation and Sunset headers, until its withdrawal on 2027-03-01.

400

The q parameter is missing, a contract version this deployment does not answer was requested, the query and the Trooth-Contract header asked for different contracts, a section name or limit could not be applied exactly, or an after cursor is malformed, stale or was issued for other sections.

429

Over the per-network budget. Retry-After is the number of seconds until the window that refused resets.

503

Trooth could not read its own record on this load. Retry after the Retry-After interval; nothing is asserted about the company.

Search the Trooth Network.

Public Network API, no key · supported

Full-text search over published company listings. Returns the same companies the public directory shows. Prefer cursor pagination: pass the returned next_cursor back as cursor. Offset pagination still works and is kept for clients that already ship with it, but it is deprecated: it counts rows rather than naming a position, so a directory that grows between two requests can serve the same company twice and skip another without erroring. A response to an offset-paged request carries a Deprecation header and a Link header with rel="deprecation"; no withdrawal date is set, so no Sunset header is sent. A cursor that cannot be read returns 400 rather than an empty page. Cached at the edge for 60 seconds with a 300 second stale-while-revalidate window. BEST-EFFORT, MUTABLE ENUMERATION: there is no snapshot. Every page reads the live directory, and the cursor names a position in the sort order, not a point in time; it is not bound to a snapshot, an as-of time or an expiry. A company whose witnessed state changes between two pages can be missed or returned twice, so a walk is not a consistent full export. Drop repeats by slug and walk again to reconcile. The fact pages of /api/network/profile are a different mechanism: their cursor is bound to one record version. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

qstring, in query

Search terms. Matched against company name and description.

industrystring, in query

Restrict to one industry.

limitinteger, in query

Results per page. Clamped to 100; anything unreadable falls back to 25.

cursorstring, in query

Opaque page marker. Use next_cursor from the previous response. Preferred over offset. It names a position in a live list, not a snapshot: it carries no as-of time and no expiry.

offsetinteger, in queryDeprecated

Zero-based offset. Use next_offset from the previous response. Deprecated in favor of cursor; still answered, with a Deprecation header on the response.

Returns

200

A page of results.

400

A cursor that cannot be read.

503

The directory could not be read. Not a statement about any company.

Companies with a witnessed record.

Public Network API, no key · supported

The Trooth Network's front page: published companies, those with a witnessed record first. Cached at the edge for 120 seconds. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

None.

Returns

200

Published companies.

503

The directory could not be read.

One company record.

Public Network API, no key · supported

A published company profile, and its live witnessed state where Trooth has witnessed the company. A slug of the form d--example.com resolves a witnessed company that has not yet published a rich profile. Cached at the edge for 120 seconds. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

slugstring, in pathRequired

Company slug, or d--<domain>.

Returns

200

The company record.

404

The company is not on the Trooth Network.

503

The record could not be read. Not a statement about the company.

Typeahead over published companies.

Public Network API, no key · supported

Name-to-company suggestions for a search box, over the same published listings the directory shows. Cached at the edge for 60 seconds. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

qstring, in queryRequired

Partial company name.

Returns

200

Suggestions, possibly none.

A company's public evidence rollup.

Public Network API, no key · supported

The buyer-facing projection of a company's evidence: the witnessed state per area (the pillars key), provider status with the time each connected system was last read. Framework rollups were retired on 2026-09-26 and the frameworks array is always empty. Individual control rows, owners and internal notes are never returned here. Each pillar carries observedAt and sourceRef, null when Trooth holds no per-area read time or reference, or when the area is restricted: null reads as unknown and is never filled from another area, a provider sync or the company's last edit. Responds 404 when the company has no public record, which is a privacy-preserving answer rather than an error. This is the read the embeddable badge performs. Cached at the edge for 300 seconds. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

handlestring, in pathRequired

Company handle.

Returns

200

The rollup, with framework percentages retired (empty) since 2026-09-26.

404

No public record for this handle.

503

The record could not be read. Not a statement about the company.

Compare companies side by side.

Public Network API, no key · supported

A comparison of published witnessed facts across up to four companies. Control rows are stripped, so a company's internal posture is never exposed through the comparison. comparison is the table a person sees on /compare, decided by the same module: every cell carries one of the states in states, the legend the page prints. A parameter at.<handle>=<n> reads that company at stored record version n, as a dated comparison link does. Handles are compared case-insensitively and a handle named twice is read once; the first four distinct handles are read and any beyond them are ignored. A request that names no handle and no snapshot is refused with 400 (missing_parameter) rather than answered with an empty comparison. Each vendor's pillars have the same shape GET /api/public-mesh/{handle} sends, observedAt and sourceRef included, null when unknown. Rate limited. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

handlesstring, in query

Comma-separated company handles, one to four distinct, for example trooth,egnyte. Required unless snapshot is given; a request with neither is refused with 400.

snapshotstring, in query

A saved comparison snapshot id (cs_ and 32 hex). Answers that snapshot: its companies, each read at the record version saved with it.

Returns

200

The comparison.

400

Neither handles nor snapshot names anything to compare (code missing_parameter; the legacy body's error is missing_handles). Nothing was looked up.

404

No saved snapshot answers this id.

429

Rate limited. Retry after a short pause.

502

No company in the request could be read.

503

The saved snapshot could not be read just now.

A published legal document.

Public Network API, no key · supported

The full text of one of the twenty published Trooth legal documents, with its title, effective date and body. The slug must be one of the published set; anything else responds 404. Cached at the edge for one hour with a one day stale-while-revalidate window. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

slugstring, in pathRequired

Document slug, for example privacy, terms, subprocessors.

Returns

200

The document.

404

Unknown document.

The deployment currently serving.

Public Network API, no key · supported

The build stamp of the running deployment. Never cached. Useful for confirming which release answered a request. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

None.

Returns

200

The build stamp.

Check many companies in one call.

Public Network API, no key · supported

A read of up to 25 companies in one request, for an agent that plans a sequence of steps and needs to know, before acting, what each company's record says and whether it changed since planning. Each target is a domain or profile slug, or { q, pin } where pin is the record digest from an earlier read. Each result has status (listed, not_listed, withheld, unavailable), what Trooth's own readings show, the version and SHA-256 digest of the record GET /api/network/profile serves, pin.changed when a pin was sent, and plain day counts. A target that cannot be read is that target's unavailable, with the problem registry's retryable flag and next action; the other targets are still answered. It changes nothing, so it takes no Idempotency-Key and repeating it is always safe. Nothing in it grades, ranks or certifies a company. Errors are always RFC 9457 problem details. Never cached. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

None.

Returns

200

One result per target, in the order sent.

400

The body or a target cannot be used; errors[] points into the body.

413

The body is larger than 16 KiB.

429

Rate limited.

Every record version across the Network.

Public Network API, no key · supported

Every published record version across the Trooth Network after a position, oldest first, at most 100 per page: the company, the version, its SHA-256 digest and the previous one, and where to read it. No record body and no personal fact. Without after or since, the page starts 24 hours back. next is the cursor to send as after, and also the id of the last event, so a client can move between this feed and the event stream without losing its place. Order is by recorded time, ties broken by event id; delivery is at least once across a reconnect (drop repeats by event_id); a company that withdraws its profile stops appearing. A position older than the retention window is 410 beyond_retention. Errors are always RFC 9457 problem details. Never cached. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

afterstring, in query

next from the previous page, or an event id from the stream.

sincestring, in query

Start at this ISO 8601 date or UTC time instead of a cursor.

limitinteger, in query

Events per page, 1 to 100 (default 50).

Returns

200

A page of change events.

400

A position or limit that cannot be used.

410

The position is older than the feed keeps (beyond_retention); read the records in full and resume from a fresh position.

429

Rate limited.

503

The feed could not be read, or history is not set up on this database.

Every record version, as Server-Sent Events.

Public Network API, no key · supported

The change feed as a text/event-stream (WHATWG Server-Sent Events). Each event is event: record.version, with the same JSON an entry of GET /api/network/changes carries and id set to its cursor, so a client that reconnects with Last-Event-ID (every EventSource does) resumes exactly after the last event it received. Without Last-Event-ID or after, the stream starts now. A connection is held for about 50 seconds and closed with a comment; the client reconnects (retry: 3000). A comment is sent every 15 seconds on a quiet stream. Errors before the stream opens are RFC 9457 problem details. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

Last-Event-IDstring, in header

The id of the last event received; the stream resumes after it.

afterstring, in query

The same as Last-Event-ID, for a client that cannot set headers.

Returns

200

An event stream of record.version events.

400

A position that cannot be read.

410

The position is older than the feed keeps.

429

Rate limited.

503

The feed could not be read, or history is not set up.

Discover companies by several criteria.

Public Network API, no key · supported

Multi-criteria discovery over the same published companies the directory lists: free text, industry, HQ country, data residency region, deployment model, product name, whether Trooth holds a witnessed reading, and profile changes since a date. A company is matched only by facts its public page shows: residency and deployment are searchable only while the company shows the section that renders them. Filters are exact, case-insensitive matches on what the company published; a company that published nothing for a filtered field is absent from the answer, which is not a no. Order is the directory's: witnessed first, then the most recent reading, then name; never by a figure. Each result carries facts, whole days counted from timestamps on the record (days_since_last_witnessed, days_since_profile_updated), which rate nothing. Cursor pagination only; a cursor is bound to the filters it was issued with. An unknown filter is refused. Errors are always RFC 9457 problem details (codes at /api/problems). Cached at the edge for 60 seconds with a 300 second stale-while-revalidate window. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

qstring, in query

Free text, matched against name, tagline, domain, industries and product names.

industrystring, in query

An industry, matched as a substring of the company's industries.

countrystring, in query

The HQ country, as the company published it; exact, case-insensitive.

residencystring, in query

A data residency region, as companies write it (EU, US, UK...); exact, case-insensitive.

hostingstring, in query

A deployment model (Cloud, Private cloud / VPC, On-prem, Hybrid); exact, case-insensitive.

productstring, in query

A product name, matched as a substring of the visible offering section.

witnessedstring, in query

true for companies with a witnessed reading, false for those without.

updated_sincestring, in query

Only companies whose profile changed at or after this ISO 8601 date or UTC time.

limitinteger, in query

Results per page, 1 to 100 (default 25).

cursorstring, in query

next_cursor from the previous page, sent with the same filters.

Returns

200

A page of matching companies.

400

An unknown filter, a value that cannot be used, or a cursor issued for different filters.

429

Rate limited.

503

The directory could not be read. Not an empty result.

Every error code and whether retrying can help.

Public Network API, no key · supported

The registry every RFC 9457 problem document from trooth.co draws on: each code with its status, fixed title, retryable flag, next action, and terminal (true when repeating the same request cannot change the answer, exactly not retryable). A code keeps its meaning once published. Cached for one hour. Readable cross-origin: the response carries Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and never Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, so a browser on any site may read it without cookies.

Parameters

None.

Returns

200

The registry.

Retrieval agents are welcome (robots.txt); model-training crawlers are blocked, since published companies did not consent to wholesale ingestion.

Cite each fact's source, and its date where it has one. When Trooth holds no record, say so.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is live at https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp (JSON-RPC 2.0, public, no key). It leads with 2026-07-28, reports trooth-mcp 1.5.0 and still answers 2025-11-25, 2025-06-18, 2025-03-26 or 2024-11-05.

• 7 tools without an account (trooth_public_trust_profile, trooth_outside_in_read, trooth_verify, trooth_ask, trooth_ai_data_use_disclosures, trooth_search_companies and trooth_compare_companies), and 1 more tool that reads only the caller's own workspace with an OAuth access token. Each is read only and returns structuredContent (status, provenance, subject, summary); the table below states each one's access, what it returns, its argument limits and its cost.
• 4 resources: trooth://methodology, trooth://provenance-labels, trooth://verify-a-vendor, trooth://what-a-call-sends.
• 3 prompts: vendor_trust_check, verify_trust_token, before_you_trust.

Setup: Agents and MCP. Changes: changelog.

Companies set webhooks in their workspace. Agents and buyers have one public route, POST https://api.trooth.co/public/trust/:slug/agent-subscribe:

• Send a webhookUrl and get back a signing secret.
• It follows published profiles only.
• It sends trust.posture.changed, signed with x-trooth-signature; workspace endpoints have their own events.

Details are on Agents and MCP.

There is no SDK and no scoped Trooth package; any @trooth/ name is not ours. Use plain HTTP and JSON, or generate a typed client from /openapi.json.

One package exists: trooth on npm (source: github.com/troothllc/trooth-cli), with two commands:

• trooth check <domain> reads a public record.
• trooth lint [path] reads what your repository declares and makes no request.

It reads no key and calls only the directory endpoint. Anything else attributed to it, trooth scan in particular, was retired and exits with an explanation.

Six checks, each a failure an integration has already had somewhere.

1. Handle every class of answerA 200 with found: false, 400, 404, 429 and 5xx each need a branch. Never record a 503 as a finding.
2. Bound retries and pagesRetry 429 and 5xx only, with backoff and a cap, then surface the failure. Cap cursor pages; never resend a cursor.
3. Stay inside the limitsComparison allows 20 requests a minute and 200 an hour per address. Other reads are edge-cached.
4. Pin the contract and watch for deprecationSend the contract header, read the deprecation field, and treat Deprecation or Sunset headers as dated tasks.
5. Carry provenance and dates to your usersShow origin beside each value, age facts by the record's last reading, and never render unknown as no.
6. Know what is promisedThe service level agreement and API terms state Trooth's commitments and remedies. Read both first.

The terms are the service level agreement and the API terms.

Breaking changes are announced first in the changelog; policy: API versioning. Availability: status; GET /api/version names the answering deployment.

Questions go to developers@trooth.co.