canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/certifier.me/certifier

# Certifier API

The Certifier API issues and sends digital certificates and badges to recipients from reusable templates. It controls each credential's look through design templates and its content through credential templates, and a single create-issue-send operation produces, issues, and delivers a credential in one request. Credential search, listing, and recipient interaction records support the issuing workflow.

## For AI agents

Issue and send digital certificates and badges from templates, apply branded designs, and track recipient interactions through the Certifier API.

## Scope

Does not handle identity verification, exam proctoring, or course delivery. Use for issuing and sending digital certificates and badges only.

## Capabilities

- Create, issue, and send digital certificates and badges to recipients
- Produce, issue, and deliver a credential in one create-issue-send call
- Search and list issued credentials for a recipient
- Define credential templates that set what a credential contains
- Apply design templates to brand each certificate
- Record recipient interactions with issued credentials

## Use cases

### AI Agent Certificate Delivery

An AI agent connected through Jentic can hand out a certificate on request: it builds the credential from a template for a recipient, issues it, and emails it. The create-issue-send operation collapses those steps into one call, so the agent completes delivery in a single action.

Example prompt: Build a certificate from a template for a recipient, issue it, and email it to them

### Event and Membership Badges

Recognize attendance or membership by issuing a badge tied to a credential template. Certifier fills recipient details from the issue request and delivers the badge, which fits automated flows triggered after an event or renewal.

Example prompt: Issue an event-attendance badge from a template to a recipient and send it

### Branded Certificate Templates

Keep certificates consistent by pairing a credential template with a design template before issuing. Certifier exposes both template types so an integration picks the right content and look for each program.

Example prompt: Create a credential template that references a chosen design template

### Credential Lookup

Support recipients by searching issued credentials and reading their interaction records. Certifier lists credentials and credential interactions so a workflow can confirm what was issued and whether it was opened.

Example prompt: Search credentials for a recipient email and return each one's status and interactions

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| POST | `/v1/credentials` | Create a credential |
| POST | `/v1/credentials/create-issue-send` | Create, issue, and send a credential in one call |
| POST | `/v1/credentials/{id}/issue` | Issue a credential |
| POST | `/v1/credentials/{id}/send` | Send a credential |
| GET | `/v1/credentials` | List credentials |
| POST | `/v1/groups` | Create a credential template |
| GET | `/v1/designs` | List design templates |

## Key resources

- **Credentials** — Create, issue, send, search, update, and delete digital credentials
- **Credential Templates** — Templates (groups) that define a credential's content
- **Designs** — Design templates applied to credentials
- **Credential Interactions** — Records of recipient interactions with credentials

## AI readiness

This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use.

- **Score:** 43 / 100
- **Maturity:** Foundational
- **Dimensions:**
  - Foundational Compliance: 71 / 100
  - Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility: 81 / 100
  - AI-Readiness & Agent Experience: 18 / 100
  - Agent Usability: 94 / 100
  - Security: 60 / 100
  - AI Discoverability: 79 / 100
- **View full report:** https://jentic.com/apis/certifier.me/certifier/scorecard
- **How the score is calculated:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/overview/
- **More about the dimensions:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/specification/#dimensional-model-overview

### Score it yourself

Every API in the directory is allowlisted, so you can re-score it with no key required.

- **Score your own API:** https://jentic.com/scorecard.md
- **Scoring CLI agent skill:** https://github.com/jentic/jentic-api-scorecard/blob/main/skills/jentic-api-scorecard/SKILL.md

```sh
npx @jentic/api-scorecard-cli score <openapi-url>
```

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring Certifier by hand means handling its bearer-token auth and tracking the credential, design, template, and interaction paths yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import Certifier from the API Directory, store the token once, and your agent calls it.
- **Permission scoping:** You choose which Certifier operations the agent may call, such as creating and sending certificates, so operations like deleting credentials or templates are not included unless you add them.
- **Credential handling:** Your Certifier access token is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'send a certificate' or 'issue a badge', and Jentic returns the matching Certifier operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **MailerSend API** — MailerSend delivers transactional email for notifications and attachments.
- **CraftMyPDF API** — CraftMyPDF generates PDF documents from templates and data.
- **Moodle API** — Moodle runs courses, enrollment, and completion tracking as an LMS.

## FAQ

### What authentication does the Certifier API use?

The Certifier API authenticates with a bearer access token sent in the Authorization header, per its OpenAPI spec. You create and manage tokens in the Certifier dashboard, and through Jentic the token is stored encrypted by your own Jentic One instance and injected at call time, so it never appears in the agent's prompt or logs.

### Can I send a certificate in one call with the Certifier API?

Yes. Besides the separate create, issue, and send operations, the API offers a create-issue-send operation that builds a credential from a template, issues it, and delivers it to the recipient in a single request. This fits fully automated badge and certificate flows.

### Is there a Certifier MCP server?

You do not need an MCP server to give your agent the Certifier API. Jentic connects it directly from the API Directory: import Certifier, store your token once, and your agent issues and sends certificates through the operations the API already exposes. Operations are discovered on demand, so no extra tool definitions are loaded into the agent's context.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Certifier API?

Yes. Write a rule that allows only the operations the agent needs, for example creating and sending certificates, and leave out operations like deleting credentials or templates. The agent can deliver certificates within those bounds, and every call it makes is logged.

### How do I send a certificate through Jentic with the Certifier API?

Search Jentic for 'send a certificate', which returns the Certifier operation with its input schema, then supply the template and recipient details and the agent runs it. To run it on your own infrastructure, install Jentic One from its GitHub repo.