Initial release: OpenAPI readiness qualification

Know which APIs are ready
for autonomous action.

ARCVERIN Qualification transforms an OpenAPI contract into an evidence-bound model of agentic readiness. It shows what can be automated, what must remain restricted, why, and what would close each gap.

This is not another style linter—and it never mistakes a static declaration for runtime proof.

OpenAPI evidencePer-operation decisionsCausal remediation
qualification / payments-api.openapi.yaml
Reconstructing operations, schemas, references, and workflow evidence...
POST /payments · state-changing · financial impact
PASS  Request and response contracts are bounded.
PASS  Idempotency requirement is declared.
OPEN  Approval enforcement is not proven by the contract.
Owner: runtime evidence · Restriction: keep unavailable to autonomous clients
Close with: qualifying enforcement evidence + full reassessment
GET /payments/{id} · read-only · verification candidate
PASS  Stable identity and observable state are described.
LINK  Candidate verification step for POST /payments.
12
Ready controls
3
Evidence gaps
1
Restricted operation
The customer distinction

Beyond OpenAPI linting.

A linter asks whether the file follows a standard. ARCVERIN asks whether the evidence in that file is sufficient to entrust each operation to an autonomous system.

Conventional linting
ARCVERIN Qualification
Is the document valid?
Is there enough trustworthy evidence to automate this operation safely?
Reports formatting and schema issues.
Evaluates semantics, authority, retry, recovery, verification, and workflow readiness.
Produces document warnings.
Produces operation-level outcomes and exposure restrictions.
Suggests generic corrections.
Identifies the causal owner, required artifact, evidence, and closure test.
Treats missing information as another error.
Separates failure, not applicable, not assessed, and analyzer limitation.
How it works from a static contract

OpenAPI is the evidence source—not the conclusion.

The contract already describes operations, data boundaries, security schemes, errors, callbacks, references, and workflow clues. ARCVERIN resolves those signals into a readiness model and keeps uncertainty explicit.

01

Reconstruct

Resolve operations, schemas, references, callbacks, links, authentication, and dependencies.

02

Qualify

Apply deterministic rules for meaning, authority, effects, verification, retry, recovery, and exposure.

03

Bound confidence

Distinguish proven contract facts from conservative derivation, owner policy, missing evidence, and analyzer limits.

04

Decide

Show what is ready, what stays restricted, and the exact change or evidence needed for reassessment.

Comparable by design

Hold the evaluator constant. Compare locked evidence surfaces.

ARCVERIN applies the same qualification release, rule set, and evidence boundary to each locked OpenAPI surface. That makes differences explainable: the evaluator stays fixed while the declared contract evidence changes.

01 · Fixed evaluator

One qualification basis

Use the same release, rules, and interpretation boundary for every surface in the comparison.

02 · Locked inputs

One exact contract at a time

Each result belongs to a specific, unchanged OpenAPI surface. A changed surface becomes a new comparison point.

03 · Evidence-bound differences

Explain what changed

Compare rule outcomes and evidence gaps without importing assumptions from outside the evaluated contracts.

This is not a provider ranking. The comparison does not use customer history, provider reputation, or a hosted backend, and it does not claim runtime proof. It compares declared OpenAPI evidence under a controlled qualification basis.

What the qualification delivers

A decision teams can defend and act on.

Readiness by operation

Independent outcomes for every API operation and rule—without hiding uncertainty inside one aggregate score.

Safe exposure boundaries

Operations that should remain unavailable to autonomous or MCP-connected clients until gaps close.

Causal remediation

The responsible owner, required evidence or source change, and reassessment condition for each gap.

Evidence lineage

Traceable locations, identities, causes, confidence, and decision provenance for assurance review.

Workflow insight

Candidate verification, recovery, callback, and dependency relationships reconstructed from the contract.

Shareable reports

Technical and executive views that put API, platform, security, and AI teams on the same evidence.

The trust boundary

What ARCVERIN refuses to guess matters as much as what it finds.

Contract facts can establish declared structure, constraints, and relationships.

Conservative derivation can identify candidates without turning inference into proof.

Proposed or inferred content receives no authoritative readiness credit.

Runtime behavior—such as approval enforcement, audit retrieval, retry behavior, or sandbox parity—remains unverified without qualifying evidence.

API qualification

See what your OpenAPI contract can—and cannot—prove.

Start with one OpenAPI specification and receive an evidence-bound view of readiness, restrictions, and remediation priorities.

  • ✓ Operation-level readiness outcomes
  • ✓ Exposure and evidence gaps
  • ✓ Prioritized remediation path