Scalar
MIT
A modern OpenAPI documentation and API client suite — renders a reference site from a description and ships an interactive client alongside it.
OpenAPI
Specifications it implements
What this tool does to each specification, in the role vocabulary. Follow a standard through to standards.apievangelist.com for what it actually specifies.
| Standard | Role | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAPI | documents |
Using this from an agent
- Interfaces
clilibraryweb-ui- Install
-
npm
@scalar/cli - Invoke
npx @scalar/cli document validate <spec.yaml>- Consumes
- openapi
- Emits
- html, json
- Runtime
- Runs offline Deterministic Read-only No credentials
Where it applies
Jobs this tool actually does, and the surface each one is exercised on.
Stand up documentation with an embedded client without running a portal product.
coding-agenthuman
Validate and bundle a description as a build step.
ci-pipeline
- Website
- https://scalar.com
- Repository
- https://github.com/scalar/scalar
- License
- MIT — reported by the GitHub API, verified 2026-09-17
- Stars
- 16136 · last commit 2026-09-17
- Matching caveat
- The name is an ordinary English word, so the job-corpus matcher cannot use it — sampled matches were An ordinary mathematics and computing term. The bare name is blocked in the matcher, so this count reflects only qualified matches. Real adoption needs another source.
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/tools.json,
against the tool.schema.json
schema, using the roles.json
vocabulary. Start at /llms.txt.