generated: '2026-09-13'
method: searched
source: registry.npmjs.org, rubygems.org, pypi.org, github.com/Cox-Automotive, github.com/manheim
probed: '2026-09-13'
api_client_sdks_published: false
finding: >-
  Cox Automotive publishes NO first-party client SDK for any of its documented public APIs. npm, PyPI,
  RubyGems, Maven Central, NuGet, pkg.go.dev, crates.io and Packagist were searched for Kelley Blue
  Book, Manheim, Dealertrack, VinSolutions and Cox Automotive client libraries, and the reference pages
  on developer.kbb.com, developer.manheim.com and developer.coxautoinc.com link to none. An integrator
  writes their own HTTP client against the Swagger 2.0 contracts or the hypermedia reference. What Cox
  Automotive DOES publish, and publishes actively, is internal cloud and delivery tooling under the
  Cox-Automotive and manheim GitHub organisations — ALKS (their AWS role-brokering service) has a
  maintained CLI, a JavaScript client and a Terraform provider, all released within the last two months.
  Those are catalogued below with official: true and api_client: false, because crediting them as SDKs
  would misrepresent the Kelley Blue Book and Manheim APIs as having client libraries when they do not.
  No SDKs pointer is wired in apis.yml for that reason.
packages:
- language: javascript
  registry: npm
  name: alks
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/alks
  install: npm install -g alks
  version: 4.2.1
  published: '2026-08-25'
  official: true
  api_client: false
  wraps: ALKS (AWS Labs Key Service) — Cox Automotive's internal AWS role-brokering API, not a product API.
  repo: https://github.com/Cox-Automotive/alks-cli
- language: javascript
  registry: npm
  name: alks.js
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/alks.js
  install: npm install alks.js
  version: 2.15.2
  published: '2026-07-21'
  official: true
  api_client: true
  wraps: ALKS API
  repo: https://github.com/Cox-Automotive/alks.js
- language: javascript
  registry: npm
  name: alks-node
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/alks-node
  install: npm install alks-node
  version: 0.12.1
  published: '2020-10-14'
  official: true
  api_client: true
  wraps: ALKS API
  repo: https://github.com/Cox-Automotive/alks-node
  note: Superseded by alks.js; last release 2020.
- language: javascript
  registry: npm
  name: '@cox-automotive/yaml-changelog'
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cox-automotive/yaml-changelog
  install: npm install @cox-automotive/yaml-changelog
  version: 0.1.9
  published: '2019-06-05'
  official: true
  api_client: false
  repo: https://github.com/Cox-Automotive/yaml-changelog
- language: javascript
  registry: npm
  name: '@makemydeal/cai-api-version-manager'
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@makemydeal/cai-api-version-manager
  install: npm install @makemydeal/cai-api-version-manager
  version: 1.0.8
  published: '2024-03-25'
  official: true
  api_client: false
  note: >-
    Published under the Make My Deal (Cox Automotive) npm scope. Handles Accept-header based API version
    routing — the closest thing in any public registry to a Cox Automotive API client helper.
- language: hcl
  registry: terraform-registry
  name: Cox-Automotive/alks
  url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/Cox-Automotive/alks/latest
  version: null
  published: null
  official: true
  api_client: true
  wraps: ALKS API
  repo: https://github.com/Cox-Automotive/terraform-provider-alks
  note: >-
    version/published recorded as null — the Terraform Registry was not queried in this pass; the
    source repository's last push was 2026-07-10.
- language: go
  registry: github
  name: alks-go
  url: https://github.com/Cox-Automotive/alks-go
  version: null
  published: null
  official: true
  api_client: true
  wraps: ALKS API
  note: Go client distributed by module path only; no proxy.golang.org version was resolved in this pass.
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: vinbot
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/vinbot
  install: gem install vinbot
  version: 3.0.0
  published: '2025-07-29'
  official: true
  api_client: false
  publisher: Manheim (Cox Automotive)
  note: >-
    Generates decodeable VINs and vehicle objects for testing. The only domain-relevant package Cox
    Automotive publishes, and it is a test-data generator rather than a client.
  repo: https://github.com/manheim/vinbot
- language: python
  registry: pypi
  name: manheim-c7n-tools
  url: https://pypi.org/project/manheim-c7n-tools/
  install: pip install manheim-c7n-tools
  version: 1.4.3
  published: '2022-05-24'
  official: true
  api_client: false
  publisher: Manheim (Cox Automotive)
  repo: https://github.com/manheim/manheim-c7n-tools
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: awssume
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/awssume
  install: gem install awssume
  version: 1.0.1
  published: '2019-04-09'
  official: true
  api_client: false
  publisher: Manheim (Cox Automotive)
registries_searched:
- npm
- PyPI
- RubyGems
- Maven Central
- NuGet
- pkg.go.dev
- crates.io
- Packagist
github_organizations:
- url: https://github.com/Cox-Automotive
  public_repos: 64
- url: https://github.com/manheim
  public_repos: 66
- url: https://github.com/dealertrack
  public_repos: 12
- url: https://github.com/vauto
  public_repos: 17