Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the RIDB API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the RIDB API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fridb.recreation.gov%2Fridb-recreation-gov" | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fridb.recreation.gov%2Fridb-recreation-gov" | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with RIDB API.

List all organizations

Get a specific organization

Integrate RIDB API into automated workflows

Query and filter RIDB API records by parameters

Monitor RIDB API operational status and events

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Automated Activities Management

Automate activities operations by combining multiple RIDB API endpoints. Agents can get a specific organization and then list recreation areas in a single workflow.

Call GET /organizations/{orgId} to get a specific organization, then verify the result

AI Agent Integration via Jentic

AI agents discover and call RIDB API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle apiKey tokens manually.

Search Jentic for 'list all organizations', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials

Key Endpoints

12 endpoints — the recreation information database (ridb) api provides data about federal recreation areas, facilities, campsites, permits, tours, activities, and events managed by the us government.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/organizations

List all organizations

GET

/organizations/{orgId}

Get a specific organization

GET

/recareas

List recreation areas

GET

/recareas/{recAreaId}

Get a specific recreation area

GET

/facilities

List facilities

GET

/facilities/{facilityId}

Get a specific facility

GET

/campsites

List campsites

GET

/campsites/{campsiteId}

Get a specific campsite

GET

/organizations

List all organizations

GET

/organizations/{orgId}

Get a specific organization

GET

/recareas

List recreation areas

GET

/recareas/{recAreaId}

Get a specific recreation area

GET

/facilities

List facilities

GET

/facilities/{facilityId}

Get a specific facility

GET

/campsites

List campsites

GET

/campsites/{campsiteId}

Get a specific campsite

Why Jentic?

What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.

Setup

Wiring the RIDB API by hand means registering for an apikey, appending it as a query parameter on every call to the recreation.gov host, and paging through organizations, rec areas, facilities, and campsites yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the RIDB API from the API Directory, store the API key once, and your agent calls it.

Permission scoping

RIDB puts the resource id in the URL path (/facilities/{facilityId}, /recareas/{recAreaId}), so a rule can pin your agent to one facility or rec area and its lookups. You choose the operations it may call, and since this directory is read-only the agent lists and reads records without any write path unless you add one.

Credential isolation

Your RIDB API key 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.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'find campsites in a rec area' or 'look up a facility by id', and Jentic returns the matching RIDB API operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

FAQs

Specific to using RIDB API through Jentic.

What authentication does the RIDB API use?

The RIDB API uses an API key passed in the `apikey` query. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.

Can I list all organizations with the RIDB API?

Yes. Use the GET /organizations endpoint. The API returns structured JSON responses that agents can parse and act on directly.

What are the rate limits for the RIDB API?

Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.

How do I list all organizations through Jentic?

Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'list all organizations'. Jentic returns the matching RIDB API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.

How many endpoints does the RIDB API have?

The RIDB API exposes 12 endpoints covering activities, campsites, events operations.

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

Yes. Jentic One is self-hosted, so your own rules decide which RIDB operations and credentials the agent may use. Because RIDB puts the resource id in the URL path, such as /facilities/{facilityId} and /recareas/{recAreaId}, you can pin the agent to a single facility or recreation area and its lookups, and choose exactly which endpoints it may call. Since this directory is read-only, the agent lists and reads organizations, rec areas, facilities, and campsites with no write path unless you add one.

Ridb Recreation Gov RIDB API

Name: RIDB API
Brand: RIDB API
Availability: InStock

AI ReadinessFoundational (D+)47/100

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Official vendor OpenAPI document · agent-readyIdentity AuthAuthenticationapiKey12 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Programmatically list all organizations, get a specific organization. Covers 12 operations with apiKey authentication.

Use for: I need to all organizations, I want to a specific organization, Search for recreation areas, Find all a specific recreation area

Not supported: Does not handle payments, communications, or crm - use for identity and authentication only.

The Recreation Information Database (RIDB) API provides data about federal recreation areas, facilities, campsites, permits, tours, activities, and events managed by the US government. Requires an API key for authentication. The API exposes 12 endpoints secured with apiKey authentication.

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Foundational Compliance

Base layer of spec validity and structural soundness.

Grade: A+Signals: 4

98%

Lint Results

Aggregated quality score from linter diagnostics, weighted by severity.

100%

Resolution Completeness

Percentage of `$ref` references that resolve successfully.

100%

Specification Validity

Checks whether the API description parses successfully and conforms to its declared specification (e.g., OpenAPI).

75%

Structural Integrity

Structural correctness score based on schema issues using logarithmic dampening.

Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility

Clarity, completeness, and ingestion readiness for developers and tooling.

Grade: B-Signals: 4

Example Density

How richly the API is illustrated with examples.

100%

Example Validity

Percentage of examples that conform to their schemas.

50%

Response Coverage

Percentage of operations with complete response definitions (success, client error, server error).

100%

Tooling Readiness

Health of API ingestion, bundling, and resolution within Jentic pipelines.

AI-Readiness & Agent Experience

Semantic breadth, depth, and agent comprehension for AI systems.

Grade: D+Signals: 4

42%

Description Coverage

Coverage of descriptions across API elements.

Error Standardization

Coverage of RFC 9457 Problem Details for error responses.

100%

OperationId Quality

Coverage, uniqueness, and casing consistency of operationIds for AI inference.

50%

Summary Coverage

Coverage of summaries across operations/tags/info.

Agent Usability

Functional utility, complexity comfort, and AI orchestration readiness.

Grade: A+Signals: 1

94%

Complexity Comfort

Agent comfort level based on API operational and structural complexity.

Security

Trust, risk posture, and security compliance.

Grade: FSignals: 1

15%

Authentication Strength

Average quality of security schemes based on authentication method strength (weakest link for OAuth2).

AI Discoverability

Findability, semantic richness, and reasoning readiness.

Grade: BSignals: 1

66%

Descriptive Richness

Clarity and depth of descriptions across API elements.

Connect the RIDB API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with RIDB API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

Related APIs

FAQs

Ridb Recreation Gov RIDB API

Jentic AI Readiness Score

RIDB API

Foundational Compliance

Lint Results

Resolution Completeness

Specification Validity

Structural Integrity

Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility

Example Density

Example Validity

Response Coverage

Tooling Readiness

AI-Readiness & Agent Experience

Description Coverage

Error Standardization

OperationId Quality

Summary Coverage

Agent Usability

Complexity Comfort

Security

Authentication Strength

AI Discoverability

Descriptive Richness