specification: API Commons Lifecycle
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Administration for Community Living (ACL)
providerId: administration-for-community-living-acl-
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: https://agid.acl.gov/release-notes
description: >-
  Lifecycle posture for ACL's API surfaces. ACL runs a public Release Notes
  channel for the AGID data portal and versions the application itself, but
  publishes no versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no SLA and no status
  page for any API. Both live API surfaces are undocumented, which means there is
  no contract to deprecate and no notice channel an integrator could subscribe
  to.
versioning:
  policy_published: false
  transport_versioning: none
  application_versioning:
    scheme: 'Version <major>.<minor>'
    example: 'Version 2.64'
    surface: https://agid.acl.gov/release-notes
    note: >-
      The version numbers describe the AGID web application and its data loads,
      not an API contract. The two API base URLs carry no version segment.
  see: changelog/administration-for-community-living-acl--changelog.yml
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  rfc8594: false
  deprecated_operations: []
  note: >-
    No deprecation policy, no Sunset or Deprecation response header observed, and
    no notice channel. A prior generation of the AGID portal (the "AGing
    Integrated Database") was retired and rebuilt as the current AGID Program
    Data Portal; that migration was announced as agency news, not as an API
    deprecation with a dated sunset.
status_page:
  present: false
  url: null
  probed:
    - url: https://acl.gov/.well-known/api-catalog
      status: 404
  note: >-
    No status page, uptime history or incident feed was found for acl.gov,
    agid.acl.gov, sic.acl.gov or ehc.acl.gov. No StatusPage pointer is emitted.
sla:
  published: false
  note: Federal agency public data portal; no service-level commitment is published.
support:
  channel: https://acl.gov/contact-us
  type: web contact form
  note: General agency contact. There is no developer support channel.
maturity:
  agid_program_data_api:
    stage: undocumented-internal
    note: >-
      Live and load-bearing for ACL's own portal, but not published: no
      reference, no key issuance, no terms of use for programmatic access.
  eldercare_locator_content_api:
    stage: undocumented-internal
    note: Anonymous-readable Strapi endpoint backing eldercare.acl.gov.
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