# Open Agent Guide

by [Open Agent Guide](/organizations/open-agent-guide/)

- **ID:** `138a8d08-3c37-4305-ba25-d3d388d9fb06`
- **JSON API:** /api/v1/catalog/products/138a8d08-3c37-4305-ba25-d3d388d9fb06/
- **Slug:** open-agent-guide
- **Product website:** https://www.openagentguide.com/
- **Documentation:** https://www.openagentguide.com/llms.txt
- **llms.txt:** https://www.openagentguide.com/llms.txt
- **Organization website:** https://www.openagentguide.com/
- **Categories:** [Software discovery and comparison](/categories/software-discovery-comparison/)

## Description

Public software catalog for people and agents. Catalog changes cite sources and pass automated checks and review before publication.

## AI-native score

**Tier A — 82/100 · research coverage 100/100.** This grade measures agent-readiness and is not a substitute for your own security or vendor-risk review. See [methodology](/methodology/) for how the grade and coverage are computed. Unresearched decision fields score zero in the grade.

| Component | Applies | Raw | Effective weight | Nominal weight | Contribution |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Integration | Yes | 10/10 | 35% | 35% | 35.0 |
| Trust | Yes | 4/6 | 30% | 30% | 20.0 |
| Portability | Yes | 4/4 | 20% | 20% | 20.0 |
| Security | Yes | 2/4 | 15% | 15% | 7.5 |

- **Integration signals:** MCP server (+2); A2A server (+1); API spec, OpenAPI / gRPC / GraphQL (+1); Command-line interface (+1); SDK / developer kit (+1); WebMCP (+1); Agent skill (+1); Headless signup (+1); Verified llms.txt (+1)
- **Trust signals:** No generative AI training (yes, +2); Hard budget caps (no billing, +2)
- **Portability signals:** Data export (full, +2); Open standards (+1); Standard protocol access (+1); No proprietary-SDK lock-in (+1)
- **Security signals:** MFA available (+1); Access controls — RBAC / ABAC (+1)

## Trust & Data Policy

- **WebMCP:** ✓ Yes
- **Headless signup:** ✓ Yes
- **Multi-factor authentication:** ✓ Available
- **Zero data retention:** – No
- **Hard budget caps:** ✓ No billing
- **Sandbox environment:** – No
- **No generative AI training:** ✓ Yes
- **Data export:** ✓ Full
- **Data import:** – None
- **Open standards:** ✓ Yes
- **Standard protocol access:** ✓ Yes
- **No proprietary-SDK lock-in:** ✓ Yes
- **Documented provider swap:** – No
- **Self-hostable:** – No
- **Open source:** – No

## Confirmed absences

These decision fields were researched and confirmed absent — not available based on current evidence, until contrary information supersedes the finding. Each carries the check performed, the page checked, and the date, so you can act on the negative without repeating the research. A label-scoped absence applies only to its label (e.g. no SOC 2 does not mean no certifications).

- **Compliance certifications** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-20. Read the product trust and security page for compliance certifications held by the service or provider. It describes account security, MFA, access controls, encryption, data policies and review practices, but lists no certification. Security controls and content licensing are not compliance certifications. Source: https://www.openagentguide.com/trust/
- **Data import** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-20. Read the account and automation overview for migration of profile, bookmarks, authored contributions and reusable account settings from another product. It documents account JSON export and catalog proposals, but no account-data importer. Catalog submission is contribution, not import of the user account or saved workspace. Source: https://www.openagentguide.com/features/
- **Documented provider swap** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-29. Inspected the complete official developer capabilities page for Open Agent Guide, which identifies the capabilities shipped today and enumerates REST API, Markdown, MCP, A2A, WebMCP, agent skill, CLI, SDK, authentication, and account-data export. It documents connection and export, but no outbound migration route or interchangeable-provider replacement steps. Source: https://www.openagentguide.com/developers/
- **Native connectors** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-20. Read the connector and plugin release status and host setup sections. Directory listings and host certification are pending. The guide documents custom remote MCP connector setup and locally registered plugin packages, but no published native connector directory listing exposing Open Agent Guide. This check does not deny the documented custom connectors or plugins. Source: https://www.openagentguide.com/integrations/guide.md
- **Open source** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-14. Read content licensing and intellectual-property provisions: the catalog content is CC BY-SA 4.0, but no open-source license for the directory software implementation is granted; other rights are reserved. Source: https://www.openagentguide.com/terms/
- **Sandbox environment** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-20. Read the comprehensive developer/getting-started overview for isolated sandbox, development or test environments. It documents the public hosted service, free accounts and proposal validation, but no separately isolated test environment; validation alone is not a sandbox. Source: https://www.openagentguide.com/features/
- **Self-hostable** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-20. Read the comprehensive product/developer overview for deployment choices. It documents the hosted catalog and its client access routes, but no customer-operated deployment or self-hosted catalog service. Running the client CLI locally is not self-hosting the catalog. Source: https://www.openagentguide.com/features/
- **Trust center URL** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-29. Inspected the complete official llms.txt documentation index for Open Agent Guide. It contains no product trust-center destination providing access to compliance certifications or attestation reports. The separate published Trust and security overview describes account and platform practices and says readers must obtain certification reports themselves; it does not provide report access. Source: https://www.openagentguide.com/llms.txt
- **Zero data retention** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-14. Read retention provisions: account information is kept while the account is active and public catalog contributions remain in the catalog; this service does not provide zero retention. Source: https://www.openagentguide.com/privacy/

## Security & Compliance

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no compliance certifications. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.
- **Access controls:** Role-Based Access Control

## Capabilities

- **Machine-Readable Product Listing** — Expose product catalog records in a structured format consumable by APIs and AI assistants.

## Jobs To Be Done

- **Discover business software** — Find and compare software products for a business need.

## Offers

No offers listed.

## Reviews

No approved reviews yet.

## Benchmarks

No benchmarks listed.

## Documentation

- [How it works](https://www.openagentguide.com/how-it-works/)
- [Open Agent Guide Features](https://www.openagentguide.com/features/)
- [Open Agent Guide Trust and security](https://www.openagentguide.com/trust/)

## API Specs

- [Open Agent Guide API](https://www.openagentguide.com/api/v1/openapi.json) (OpenAPI)

## MCP Servers

- [MCP server](https://www.openagentguide.com/mcp)

## A2A Servers

- [Open Agent Guide read-only A2A 1.0](https://www.openagentguide.com/a2a)

## Native Connectors

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no native connectors. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

## Command-Line Interfaces

- [oag CLI](https://www.openagentguide.com/developers/) (`oag-cli`)

## Developer Kits

- [oag-client Python SDK](https://pypi.org/project/open-agent-guide/) — Languages: Python

## Agent Skills

- [Open Agent Guide](https://www.openagentguide.com/SKILL.md)

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