High Performance Building Database

{
  "service_type": "platform",
  "base_url": "https://nrel.gov",
  "auth_method": "none",
  "auth_config": {},
  "endpoints": [],
  "pricing_model": {
    "type": "free",
    "details": {
      "notes": "Government-funded public resource developed by U.S. Department of Energy and NREL. No subscription or licensing fees indicated."
    }
  },
  "rate_limits": {},
  "capabilities": [
    "High performance building case studies",
    "Building industry shared data resource",
    "Central repository for building performance information",
    "Government-backed (DOE/NREL) data platform",
    "Sustainable/green building research data"
  ],
  "raw_analysis": "The High Performance Building Database is a public, government-operated platform developed jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). It serves as a central shared resource for the building industry, aggregating high-performance building case studies. Target users are architects, engineers, building scientists, researchers, and policy makers in the sustainable/green building space. The platform is mature given its institutional backing by DOE/NREL, though its public-facing API surface is not evident from the provided information — it appears to be primarily a web-based database rather than a developer-facing API service. No public REST API, authentication scheme, or documented rate limits are disclosed. Access is presumably free and open given its government origin and public-good mission. Integrations likely exist within the broader DOE/NREL ecosystem (e.g., OpenStudio, EnergyPlus, Building America), but this is not confirmed here. The URL 'https://nrel.gov:building-case-studies' appears to be a pseudo-URL rather than a standard path, suggesting the entry may have been recorded as a service descriptor rather than a programmatically accessible API endpoint."
}

0/3 tests passed

{
  "overall": 42,
  "dimensions": {
    "token_efficiency": 8.0,
    "first_try_success": 5.0,
    "response_parseability": 5.0,
    "error_clarity": 4.0,
    "doc_quality": 5.0,
    "auth_simplicity": 9.0,
    "latency": 2.0,
    "consistency": 3.0
  },
  "pricing_normalized": {
    "model": "free",
    "notes": "Government-funded public resource (DOE/NREL); no subscription or licensing fees."
  },
  "issues": [
    "DNS resolution failed for all three checks (website_uptime, robots_txt, llms_txt) — domain could not be reached, so live behavior could not be verified.",
    "Latency values (73-157ms) reflect failed lookups, not real response times; no reliable latency signal available.",
    "No confirmed structured API or export format — accessibility to agents is unclear.",
    "No robots.txt or llms.txt confirmable, so agent-crawling permissions are unknown.",
    "Auth/onboarding flow for agents cannot be validated while the domain is unreachable."
  ],
  "recommendations": [
    "Verify the canonical domain name; the DNS 'Name or service not known' error suggests either a wrong URL or a transient/regional outage.",
    "Publish a public robots.txt and llms.txt to make crawling and AI-agent usage policy explicit.",
    "Expose a documented REST/JSON API or bulk data export to raise response_parseability and enable programmatic agent consumption.",
    "Add a status page and uptime indicators to improve consistency perception.",
    "Provide a concise machine-readable getting-started guide so agents can onboard in one step.",
    "Re-run validation after DNS is confirmed to obtain genuine latency and uptime signals."
  ]
}