Handsel. The handsel-enabled badge
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Badge · for API vendors

Wear the mark: your API speaks Handsel.

One flat badge for your README, docs, or status page. It tells developers — and the agents reading their READMEs — that your endpoint gives zero-form first value and a ladder to climb, no signup in the way.

The badge, at native size. It scales crisply — it's vector.

Markdown (README, npm, docs)

Drop this line in. It links the badge to the vendor quickstart.

[![handsel-enabled](https://handsel.ai/handsel-badge.svg)](https://handsel.ai/quickstart)

HTML (status page, site footer)

<a href="https://handsel.ai/quickstart">
  <img alt="handsel-enabled" src="https://handsel.ai/handsel-badge.svg" height="20">
</a>

Raw SVG

The file lives at https://handsel.ai/handsel-badge.svg — hotlink it, or vendor a copy into your repo.

Honest scope. Today the badge is a self-declaration that you've mounted the Handsel edge — there is no gate on using it. A certified registry — badges backed by a passing conformance run against your live endpoint (§21) — comes later. When it ships, certified vendors get a verified variant of this mark; the plain badge stays free to wear.