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   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "LaunchDarkly presents a commercial feature-flag, AgentControl, and observability platform.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "API access tokens and service tokens are documented as account features of a paid LaunchDarkly subscription. Service tokens are limited to select plans. No free-plan claim is made here.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/account/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "LaunchDarkly documents a REST API that can create, update, and search members, teams, projects, environments, and feature flags, toggle flags, query evaluation contexts, and export data.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/infrastructure/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "The REST API overview states that all resources expect and return JSON over HTTPS with a minimum TLS version of 1.2.",
   "source": "https://apidocs.launchdarkly.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "All REST API resources authenticate with personal or service access tokens, or session cookies. The preferred method is an Authorization header whose value is the access token. SDK keys cannot access the REST API.",
   "source": "https://apidocs.launchdarkly.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "The vendor states that every LaunchDarkly feature begins as an API endpoint and that the REST API can perform any action available in the product. Flag evaluation from inside an application is explicitly out of scope for the REST API.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/infrastructure/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.exists",
   "note": "LaunchDarkly publishes official evaluation SDKs. The page states they evaluate feature flags in an application and points administrators to the REST API for product changes.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/sdk",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages",
   "note": "The opened SDK index lists official client-side, server-side, AI, and edge SDKs. Server-side entries include .NET, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/sdk",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "LaunchDarkly documents a first-party hosted MCP server for feature management, AgentControl configs, and observability, and points to the vendor repository launchdarkly/mcp-server. Hosted MCP is not available in federal or EU environments.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.cli.exists",
   "note": "LaunchDarkly documents official ldcli for macOS, Windows, and Linux, installed via Homebrew, npm, Docker, source, or GitHub releases. Authentication is ldcli login or an access token.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/ldcli",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.webhooks",
   "note": "LaunchDarkly sends HTTP POST payloads to a configured webhook URL when flags or other resources change. An optional secret produces an X-LD-Signature HMAC-SHA256 header. Delivery is retried once and is not guaranteed.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/infrastructure/webhooks",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[0]",
   "note": "REST resources return JSON. List responses use a summary representation with an items array; individual fetches return a detailed representation.",
   "source": "https://apidocs.launchdarkly.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[0]",
   "note": "The REST API creates and updates flags, members, teams, projects, and environments. Request bodies for PATCH, POST, and PUT are JSON.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/infrastructure/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "LaunchDarkly publishes https://launchdarkly.com/docs/llms.txt as a documentation index for LLMs. Docs pages point to it as the complete documentation index.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/llms.txt",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "The REST API is documented as covering any in-product action, with access-token auth, OpenAPI, and auto-generated client libraries. Evaluation stays on SDKs, so the administration path is broad rather than a 9\u201310 runtime-plus-admin surface.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/infrastructure/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.mcp",
   "note": "The hosted MCP server is official and not labeled beta on the opened pages. Tools cover flags, AgentControl configs, and observability. Hosted MCP is unavailable in EU and federal instances, so the path is useful official coverage rather than unusually complete.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/mcp-hosted",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.cli",
   "note": "Official ldcli manages flags, members, projects, environments, and teams from the command line, with login or token auth and a setup flow. That is a maintained official CLI with useful coverage, not an unusually complete agent CLI.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/ldcli",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened LaunchDarkly's current MCP overview. It documents hosted MCP, EU/federal limits, flag and AgentControl tools, and the vendor GitHub repository.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current hosted MCP setup page. The server URL is https://mcp.launchdarkly.com/mcp/launchdarkly and authentication is OAuth.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/mcp-hosted",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current LaunchDarkly API access page, including token prerequisites and the claim that every product action is an API endpoint.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/infrastructure/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current official LaunchDarkly CLI install and authentication page.",
   "source": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/ldcli",
   "tier": "declared"
  }
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  "last_verified": "2026-09-02",
  "volatility": "high",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "mcp",
    "url": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/mcp"
   },
   {
    "type": "mcp",
    "url": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/mcp-hosted"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/infrastructure/api"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/getting-started/ldcli"
   }
  ]
 },
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 "id": "launchdarkly",
 "license": "commercial",
 "modalities": {
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   "llms_txt": true
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [
    "api-access-token"
   ],
   "coverage": "full",
   "docs": "https://launchdarkly.com/docs/home/infrastructure/api",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": true
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [
    "api-json"
   ],
   "import": [
    "api-json"
   ]
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [],
   "webhooks": true
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": true,
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "official"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. LaunchDarkly's REST API, official evaluation SDKs, ldcli, webhooks, and first-party MCP cover practical flag and config automation without browser control.\n",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": true,
   "languages": [
    "javascript",
    "python",
    "java",
    "go",
    "csharp",
    "php",
    "ruby"
   ],
   "official": true
  }
 },
 "name": "LaunchDarkly",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "hashicorp-terraform"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "LaunchDarkly",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 8,
   "cli": 7,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": 7,
   "overall": 8,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "LaunchDarkly is automatable today through a documented REST API. This record is LaunchDarkly feature flags, AgentControl configs, and related platform APIs, not Split, Unleash, or Flagsmith. The vendor states that every LaunchDarkly feature begins as an API endpoint and that the REST API can perform any action available in the product. Callers authenticate with a personal or service API access token in the Authorization header. SDK keys, mobile keys, and client-side IDs cannot call the REST API. Official evaluation SDKs exist for many languages and evaluate flags in an application; they are not a substitute for the REST API when creating or updating flags. Official ldcli installs via Homebrew, npm, Docker, or GitHub releases and authenticates with ldcli login or an access token. First-party MCP is a hosted server at https://mcp.launchdarkly.com/mcp/launchdarkly using OAuth, plus a local server installed as npx @launchdarkly/mcp-server using an API access token. Hosted MCP is unavailable on LaunchDarkly federal and EU instances; those tenants use the local server. Documented MCP tools cover feature flags, AgentControl configs, and observability. The vendor GitHub repository is launchdarkly/mcp-server. Signed webhooks POST change events. iPaaS connectors were not opened. Computer-use viability is unassessed. API scores 8 and is the best path. MCP scores 7 because coverage is useful but not the full REST surface, and hosted MCP is unavailable in EU and federal environments.\n"
 }
}