# Cruz Foam

> Cruz Foam is a circular materials company in Santa Cruz, California, founded in 2017 by John Felts
> and Marco Rolandi out of UC Santa Cruz. It makes certified compostable protective packaging from
> chitin recovered from shrimp and crustacean shells plus starches and fibers diverted from
> agricultural waste — a replacement for expanded polystyrene. Products: Cruz Foam protective
> packaging, Cruz Cool insulated cold-chain shippers, EcoVino wine shippers.

**Cruz Foam publishes no API, no developer portal, no SDKs and no API documentation.** It is a
materials manufacturer, not a software vendor. This file was generated by API Evangelist, not by
Cruz Foam; the provider serves no `/llms.txt` of its own (`https://cruzfoam.com/llms.txt` → 404).

The one machine-readable interface the company exposes is the WordPress REST content API behind its
marketing site at `https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json`. It is anonymously readable, read-only for
unauthenticated callers, unversioned as a contract, and carries no rate-limit signal, no status page
and no support channel. Consume it defensively.

## APIs

Base URL: `https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json` — no credentials required.

- [Customers API](https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/wp/v2/customers): the customer showcase — 20 brands
  shipping in Cruz Foam materials, each tagged by market segment. The only company-specific
  resource on the surface.
- [Posts API](https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts): 139 published articles on compostable
  packaging, chitin materials and cold-chain sustainability. Most recent post dated 2025-04-04.
- [Pages API](https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages): 17 marketing and policy pages — Products,
  Science, Impact, About Us, Partners, Customers, Careers, Press, Contact, Terms, Privacy.
- [Taxonomy API](https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/wp/v2/portfolio-categories): 8 market segments (B2B,
  B2C, Cushioning, Food & Wine, Healthcare & Wellness, Industrial & Commercial, Insulation, Retail
  & Lifestyle), plus 1 post category and 9 post tags.
- [Media API](https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/wp/v2/media): 551 attachments — product photography,
  material imagery, press assets, with generated size variants.
- [Search API](https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/wp/v2/search): cross-content search over 142 objects.
- [Discovery API](https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/): self-describing route index — 487 routes across
  18 namespaces — plus content types, taxonomies, statuses and public authors.
- [oEmbed API](https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed): oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint.
- [SEO Metadata API](https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/yoast/v1/get_head): rendered head metadata and the
  parsed schema.org JSON-LD graph for any site URL.

## Specs

Derived by API Evangelist from the server's own HTTP OPTIONS schema documents on 2026-08-11. Cruz
Foam publishes none of these.

- [Customers OpenAPI](openapi/cruz-foam-customers-api-openapi.yml)
- [Posts OpenAPI](openapi/cruz-foam-posts-api-openapi.yml)
- [Pages OpenAPI](openapi/cruz-foam-pages-api-openapi.yml)
- [Taxonomy OpenAPI](openapi/cruz-foam-taxonomy-api-openapi.yml)
- [Media OpenAPI](openapi/cruz-foam-media-api-openapi.yml)
- [Search OpenAPI](openapi/cruz-foam-search-api-openapi.yml)
- [Discovery OpenAPI](openapi/cruz-foam-discovery-api-openapi.yml)
- [oEmbed OpenAPI](openapi/cruz-foam-oembed-api-openapi.yml)
- [SEO OpenAPI](openapi/cruz-foam-seo-api-openapi.yml)

## Operating notes

- [Authentication](authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml): none for reads. Writes need a
  WordPress application password with no public issuance path.
- [Conventions](conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml): `page`/`per_page` (max 100) with
  `X-WP-Total` and `X-WP-TotalPages`; `_fields` and `_embed` are the difference between a 16KB and
  a 2KB response; no idempotency contract; no request-id header.
- [Errors](errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml): WordPress envelope `{code, message, data:{status}}`,
  not RFC 9457. Match on `code`.
- [Rate limits](rate-limits/cruz-foam-rate-limits.yml): none published, none signaled. Self-throttle.
- [Lifecycle](lifecycle/cruz-foam-lifecycle.yml): no versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no
  SLA, no status page, no changelog. Plugin-provided routes can vanish without notice.
- [Data model](data-model/cruz-foam-data-model.yml): integer ids shared across post types — always
  carry the type with the id.
- [Examples](examples/cruz-foam-examples.yml): working anonymous requests with live responses.
- [Agent skills](skills/_index.yml): browse the customer showcase; read the news archive.

## Docs

- [Website](https://cruzfoam.com/)
- [Products](https://cruzfoam.com/products/)
- [Science](https://cruzfoam.com/science/)
- [Customers](https://cruzfoam.com/customers/)
- [Blog](https://cruzfoam.com/blog/) · [RSS](https://cruzfoam.com/feed/)
- [Press](https://cruzfoam.com/press/)
- [Contact](https://cruzfoam.com/contact/) — the only commercial entry point; there is no signup,
  no pricing page and no self-serve purchase.
- [Terms](https://cruzfoam.com/terms/) · [Privacy](https://cruzfoam.com/privacy/)