aid: outer
name: Outer
description: 'Outer is a direct-to-consumer outdoor furniture brand founded in 2017 by Jiake Liu and Terry Lin and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, known for its OuterShell built-in cushion cover, OuterWeave wicker and OuterCloud cushions, and for the Neighborhood Showroom program that turns customer backyards into showrooms. Outer publishes no traditional developer program and no OpenAPI, but its Shopify-hosted storefront at liveouter.com serves a real machine-readable agent surface: an /llms.txt and /agents.md agent instruction document, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp advertising catalog search, cart, checkout, fulfillment, discount and order capabilities, a UCP MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp, and OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect discovery documents for the Shopify Customer Account API.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/outer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://liveouter.com/cdn/shop/files/outer-hero-banner-aluminum_513ea457-357e-47e1-9e01-8e84b8b4fd29.png?v=1769763708&width=2048
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Consumer Goods
- Furniture
- Home
- Direct to Consumer
- Agentic Commerce
- Shopify
- Universal Commerce Protocol
apis:
- aid: outer:ucp-shopping
  name: Outer UCP Shopping (MCP)
  description: 'The Universal Commerce Protocol shopping service Outer''s storefront exposes over MCP, advertised in the merchant profile at https://liveouter.com/.well-known/ucp. It carries the dev.ucp.shopping service with catalog search and lookup, cart, checkout, fulfillment, discount and order capabilities, plus Google Pay, Shopify Card and Shop Pay payment handlers. tools/list is not anonymous: the endpoint answers HTTP 422 invalid_profile_url until the calling agent supplies a resolvable UCP agent profile URI, so live tool input schemas require a registered agent identity. The tool names recorded in mcp/outer-mcp.yml are the ones Outer publishes in its own /llms.txt.'
  humanURL: https://liveouter.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://liveouter.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - E-Commerce
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/outer-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/outer-llms.txt
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/outer-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/outer-scopes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://liveouter.com/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/outer_stock/
- type: Blog
  url: https://liveouter.com/blogs/outdoor-furniture
- type: Support
  url: https://liveouter.com/pages/helpful-faqs
- type: SignUp
  url: https://liveouter.com/account/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://liveouter.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://liveouter.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/outer-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/outer-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/outer-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/outer-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/outer-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/outer-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/outer-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/outer-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/outer-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v1