# Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) > FASAB is the U.S. federal advisory board that sets generally accepted accounting principles for the > federal government and its component reporting entities. It publishes the FASAB Handbook, Statements > of Federal Financial Accounting Standards (SFFAS), technical releases, interpretations and staff > implementation guidance, and runs the board and ASIC meeting process behind them. > > FASAB publishes NO developer program, NO API documentation and NO machine-readable specification. > Its website runs on WordPress and serves the standard WordPress REST API anonymously at > https://fasab.gov/wp-json/ — a real, callable, read-only content API over 402 pages, 4 posts, > 214 media records and site search. The OpenAPI below was DERIVED by API Evangelist from that live > route discovery document on 2026-09-09; every operation in it was confirmed HTTP 200 anonymously. > FASAB did not author, publish or endorse it. > > IMPORTANT LIMIT: the authoritative pronouncements are PDFs on files.fasab.gov, linked from page > content. This API will tell you which page carries a standard and where its PDF lives. It will not > give you the text of a standard as structured data. ## APIs - [FASAB Public Content API (WordPress REST)](https://fasab.gov/wp-json/): Anonymous read-only access to FASAB pages, posts, media, taxonomies, authors and site search. 28 verified operations. No key required. ## Specs - [OpenAPI 3.1 (derived)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/openapi/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-wp-content-openapi.yml): 28 operations, derived from the live route index. - [WordPress route discovery document (verbatim)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/openapi/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-wp-routes-original.json): the 519-route source document, saved as fetched. - [OpenAPI Overlay](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/overlays/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-wp-content-overlay.yaml): API Evangelist enhancements. ## Artifacts - [Authentication](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/authentication/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-authentication.yml): none required for read; WordPress application passwords gate the admin surface. - [Conventions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/conventions/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-conventions.yml): paging, _fields, hypermedia _links, caching, error envelope; read-only so idempotency and reversibility are n/a. - [Error catalog](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/errors/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-problem-types.yml): the WordPress {code,message,data.status} envelope — not RFC 9457. - [Data model](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/data-model/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-data-model.yml): entities and relationships reachable anonymously. - [Lifecycle](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-lifecycle.yml): no versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no SLA, no status page. - [Rate limits](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-rate-limits.yml): none documented and none observable; per_page capped at 100. - [Plans and pricing](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/plans/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-plans-pricing.yml): none — a federal advisory board, free to the public. - [Conformance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/conformance/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-conformance.yml): WordPress wp/v2, oEmbed 1.0, RFC 5988 linking, sitemaps 0.9; no OAuth, OIDC, RFC 9457 or security.txt. - [Well-known probe](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/well-known/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-well-known.yml): every named path 404s on both hosts, negative control passed. - [MCP candidate](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/mcp/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-mcp.yml): no server exists; a derived candidate tool list only. - [Agent skills](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/skills/_index.yml): packaged operating instructions for finding FASAB standards and documents. - [Examples](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board/refs/heads/main/examples/): real anonymous responses captured 2026-09-09. ## Docs - [FASAB website](https://fasab.gov/) - [Standards and Guidance](https://fasab.gov/accounting-standards/) - [Handbook by Chapter](https://fasab.gov/accounting-standards/document-by-chapter/) - [Current FASAB Handbook (PDF)](https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/2025_FASAB_Handbook.pdf) - [Original Pronouncements (Unamended)](https://fasab.gov/resources/original-pronouncements/) - [Active Projects](https://fasab.gov/projects/active-projects/) - [Board Meetings](https://fasab.gov/board-activities/meeting/) - [Documents For Comment](https://fasab.gov/board-activities/documents-for-comment/) - [Newsroom](https://fasab.gov/newsroom/) - [Contact Information](https://fasab.gov/about-fasab/contact-information/) - [RSS feed](https://fasab.gov/feed/) ## What does not exist - No developer portal, API reference, getting-started guide or support channel for the API. - No SDKs or client libraries in any registry; no CLI; no Postman collection. - No GitHub organisation (api.github.com/orgs/fasab returned 404 on 2026-09-09). - No MCP server, no A2A agent card, no /llms.txt, no /.well-known/ documents of any kind. - No webhooks, no events, no AsyncAPI, no GraphQL, no gRPC and no SOAP surface. - No status page, no changelog, no sandbox, no OAuth scopes, no trust centre and no published certifications.