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 "categories": [
  "documents",
  "platform",
  "enterprise"
 ],
 "deployment": "hybrid",
 "evidence": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "Sitecore presents Experience Manager as an omnichannel CMS that can be hosted in the customer's cloud or Sitecore's.",
   "source": "https://www.sitecore.com/products/experience-manager",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "vendor",
   "note": "The product page is published by Sitecore for Sitecore Experience Manager.",
   "source": "https://www.sitecore.com/products/experience-manager",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "The opened page offers a demo request for an enterprise CMS. It is not a self-serve free product.",
   "source": "https://www.sitecore.com/products/experience-manager",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "deployment",
   "note": "Sitecore states customers can host in their cloud or Sitecore's. That is hybrid, not SaaS-only.",
   "source": "https://www.sitecore.com/products/experience-manager",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "Sitecore.Services.Client documents ItemService for regular Sitecore items and EntityService for business objects, built on ASP.NET Web API. Clients can use the RESTful API directly.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/sitecore-services-client.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "ItemService REST documents POST /sitecore/api/ssc/auth/login, GET /sitecore/api/ssc/item/{id}, path lookup, children, and POST /sitecore/api/ssc/item/{path} to create an item.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-restful-api-for-the-itemservice.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[1]",
   "note": "The OData Item Service is read-only access to items at /sitecore/api/ssc/aggregate/content/Items and returns OData JSON.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-odata-item-service.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "Login is POST /sitecore/api/ssc/auth/login over HTTPS with a JSON body of domain, username, and password. Success sets an authentication cookie. Logout is POST /sitecore/api/ssc/auth/logout.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-restful-api-for-the-itemservice.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[1]",
   "note": "Every OData Item Service request must pass a valid API key as sc_apikey in the query string or header. The key is the ID of a published item under /sitecore/system/Settings/Services/API Keys.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/api-keys-for-the-odata-item-service.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "ItemService covers item retrieve, children, and create. The OData service is read-only. Opened pages do not present a full XM/XP control plane beyond items.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-restful-api-for-the-itemservice.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.api.docs",
   "note": "Opened as the current Sitecore.Services.Client hub for Experience Manager, pointing to ItemService and EntityService.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/sitecore-services-client.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "Sitecore documents a first-party Marketer MCP for SitecoreAI at https://marketer.sitecorecloud.io/mcp/marketer-mcp-prod. That is SitecoreAI, not Experience Manager / XP. Opened XM/XP SSC pages do not declare a first-party MCP, so first_party stays unknown for this record.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/users/sitecoreai/sitecore-marketer-mcp-server.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.third_party[0]",
   "note": "Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server is a community MCP for Sitecore XM/XP and SitecoreAI, published as @antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server. The README states it is not supported by Sitecore.",
   "source": "https://github.com/Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server",
   "tier": "community"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[0]",
   "note": "Successful item GET responses are application/json with ItemID, path, template, and field values.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-restful-api-for-the-itemservice.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[0]",
   "note": "Create-item POST accepts application/json with ItemName, TemplateID, and field values and returns 201 Created.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-restful-api-for-the-itemservice.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "Documented item read and write with login cookies plus a read-only OData key surface is a broad practical CMS path. Cookie session auth and a customer-hosted CM keep it in the 7 band rather than unusually complete cloud APIs.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-restful-api-for-the-itemservice.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.mcp",
   "note": "One maintained third-party implementation with documented XM/XP Item Service support matches the 3-4 MCP band. First-party ownership for XM/XP is not established.",
   "source": "https://github.com/Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server",
   "tier": "community"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current Sitecore.Services.Client hub.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/sitecore-services-client.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current ItemService REST use-case page, including login and create-item.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-restful-api-for-the-itemservice.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current OData Item Service page, including sc_apikey and read-only scope.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-odata-item-service.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current API-key page for the OData Item Service.",
   "source": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/api-keys-for-the-odata-item-service.html",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[4].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current Sitecore Community MCP repository README.",
   "source": "https://github.com/Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server",
   "tier": "community"
  }
 ],
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  "last_verified": "2026-09-19",
  "volatility": "medium",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/sitecore-services-client.html"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-restful-api-for-the-itemservice.html"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/the-odata-item-service.html"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/api-keys-for-the-odata-item-service.html"
   },
   {
    "type": "mcp",
    "url": "https://github.com/Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server"
   }
  ]
 },
 "homepage": "https://www.sitecore.com/products/experience-manager",
 "id": "sitecore-xp",
 "license": "commercial",
 "modalities": {
  "agent_docs": {
   "llms_txt": "unknown"
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [
    "session-cookie",
    "api-key"
   ],
   "coverage": "partial",
   "docs": "https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/latest/sitecore-experience-manager/sitecore-services-client.html",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest",
    "odata"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": "unknown"
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [
    "json"
   ],
   "import": [
    "json"
   ]
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [],
   "webhooks": "unknown"
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": "unknown",
   "third_party": [
    {
     "maintained": true,
     "registries": [
      "github"
     ],
     "repo": "https://github.com/Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server"
    }
   ],
   "verdict": "unknown"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. Sitecore.Services.Client ItemService REST and the OData Item Service cover item read and write without driving the Content Editor. Computer-use viability is unassessed.\n",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": "unknown",
   "languages": [],
   "official": "unknown"
  }
 },
 "name": "Sitecore Experience Manager",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "adobe-experience-manager",
   "contentful",
   "umbraco-cms"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "Sitecore",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 7,
   "cli": null,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": 4,
   "overall": 7,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "Sitecore Experience Manager is automatable today through Sitecore.Services.Client item APIs. This record is XM/XP item access (ItemService REST and the OData Item Service) documented for Sitecore Experience Manager. It is not Adobe Experience Manager, Contentful, Umbraco, or SitecoreAI / XM Cloud. ItemService exposes HTTPS login at POST /sitecore/api/ssc/auth/login with domain, username, and password and sets an authentication cookie used for later calls. Documented reads include GET /sitecore/api/ssc/item/{id} and path lookup. Documented writes include POST /sitecore/api/ssc/item/{path} to create an item (201 with Location). The OData Item Service at /sitecore/api/ssc/aggregate/content/Items is read-only JSON and requires sc_apikey as a query parameter or header. API key items live under /sitecore/system/Settings/Services/API Keys and must be published. Opened XM/XP developer pages do not declare a first-party MCP for Experience Manager. Sitecore documents a Marketer MCP for SitecoreAI only; that product is outside this record. A third-party Sitecore Community MCP (Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server, npm @antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server) is maintained for XM/XP and SitecoreAI and states it is not supported by Sitecore. Official SDKs, a product CLI, and iPaaS catalogs were not established. Computer-use viability is unassessed. API scores 7 and is the best path because cookie login plus an on-prem or hybrid install keep it below the broadest cloud-native band. MCP scores 4 for one maintained third-party implementation.\n"
 }
}