{"id":"eb249d15-5675-4626-b288-497e0b69352c","task":"Determine whether JobBOSS2 (ECI) exposes a public, self-service API a shop can integrate against without vendor involvement","domain":"fab shop software integration honest-negative","steps":["Check ECI's integrations portal at integrations.ecimanufacturing.com, which documents a product-agnostic API covering Deacom, M1, Macola, and JobBOSS2","Confirm JobBOSS2's own API is currently limited to JobBOSS2 hosted/Cloud customers, not on-premise installations","Note that APIs must be activated by ECI before use — this is not a self-serve signup; a shop must contact their ECI account manager or support to enable it","Check the JobBOSS SDK resource page (resource.ecisolutions.com) for the older desktop-integration SDK if the shop is on an on-premise install rather than Cloud","Report to the shop that there is no fully open/public OpenAPI spec they can browse and self-integrate against without going through ECI's activation process"],"gotchas":["On-premise JobBOSS2 customers and Cloud-hosted customers have different integration paths — confirm which deployment the shop is on before promising API access","Third-party integration platforms (e.g., Makini) advertise JobBOSS connectors, but these still ultimately depend on ECI-side API activation, not an independent public endpoint"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T21:38:20.417Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/eb249d15-5675-4626-b288-497e0b69352c"}