# Padlet

> Padlet is a collaborative visual board. A padlet holds posts — text, images,
> links, files, drawings, audio and video — arranged in layouts such as a wall,
> grid, timeline, map or canvas, and many people can contribute to one at the
> same time. Its largest audience is teachers and students; teams also use it to
> collect, organize and present work.

## When to use Padlet

- Collecting contributions from many people into one shared place, where each
  contribution can be any kind of media rather than plain text.
- Giving a person a visual artifact they will keep working in afterwards — a
  board is a live document, not a one-off render.
- Classroom work: an assignment students post into, a discussion board, a
  collection of student work to review or grade.
- Not the right tool for structured records you will query later, for private
  single-user note-taking, or for anything needing a schema.

## Interfaces

- [MCP server](https://mcp.padlet.com/): the primary interface for agents. Create
  padlets, read and write posts, comment, manage collaborators and library
  settings, all as a signed-in Padlet user over Streamable HTTP.
- [OpenAPI description](https://padlet.com/openapi.json): the REST API
  at https://api.padlet.dev/v1, authenticated with an `x-api-key` header. Narrower
  than MCP — boards, posts, sections, comments, reactions, organizations — and the
  key is issued from developer settings by a paying user.
- [Agent skills](https://padlet.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json):
  step-by-step instructions for common Padlet tasks, in skill-md form.

## Getting a credential

- [auth.md](https://padlet.com/auth.md): how to register an OAuth
  client, get a user's authorization, and call the MCP server with the token.
  Registration is open — no account and no approval queue — but every credential
  is bound to a Padlet user who approves it in a browser.
- [REST API keys](https://docs.padlet.dev/reference/introduction): issued by a
  paying user from Padlet's developer settings, not by any endpoint.

## Discovery

- [Capability manifest](https://padlet.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json):
  every agent-facing document this origin serves, in one file.
- [MCP server card](https://padlet.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)
- [API catalog](https://padlet.com/.well-known/api-catalog)

## Optional

- [Product documentation](https://padlet.helpdocs.io/): written for people using
  Padlet in the browser.
- [REST API reference](https://docs.padlet.dev/reference/introduction): the same
  operations as the OpenAPI document, with prose and examples.