the documentation for Vin

One product. One catalog. Every face generated from it.

Vin is one product — the automotive capability model, a single queryable catalog of typed descriptors. Every face is a representation of it: this documentation, the SDK, the CLI, the MCP server, the price list, the doors. Because they are generated from the same rows, they cannot drift. The agent reads the same record you do.

the zero-friction pair — a key, then a decode

# Mint a key — no email, no approval, no human
curl -X POST https://apis.vin/keys

# First decode, keyless
curl 'https://apis.vin/decode/JM3KFBXY1S0597748'

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/start-hereone keyless curl and its signed answer, five pillar on-ramps into the journeys, the five primitives, and the 60-second ladder /journeyscurated end-to-end workflow narratives — every step a catalog capability, runnable against the sandbox world /recordthe record — evidence objects, the twin invariant, the precision ladder, and content negotiation /catalogthe catalog — a faceted finder over every descriptor, and one page per noun with every capability an anchored section /actthe act — the gate law, durable intents, NEEDS_HUMAN, Mandates, and the four human verbs /subjectssubjects & events — the universal snapshot, SSE and webhooks, and the event catalog /eventsthe event registry — every event the catalog can emit, generated from the union of all emits /dealersthe supply side — the store, the service drive, the deal jacket, agent-answerable inventory /doorsevery .vin door and its held shelf — what each door answers today, and what it has committed to answer /compatthe compatibility annex — how the inherited platform's contracts map into the catalog /chassiskeys, pricing, the acceptance suite, the SDK, the CLI, and the MCP server

Where the machine surfaces live

The machine-readable quartet — agents.json, openapi.json, /pricing, and llms.txt — lives at the API origin's root (apis.vin), not on this site. docs.vin documents those surfaces; it never re-homes them, and it never restates posted figures. Pricing is posted at apis.vin/pricing; this site links to it.

The reference only ever shows what the catalog declares — live, sandbox, or declared — and it declares the truth about itself. This page and every page under it renders itself: its typography, its search, and its code proofs load from this origin alone. A records office whose own pages go dark when a supplier has an outage is not a system of record.

agents.json openapi.json /pricing llms.txt

One product. One catalog. Every face generated from it.

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