# Automation Anywhere (slim)

> Automation Anywhere's Automation 360 is a cloud robotic process automation platform whose Control Room deploys bots that operate desktop and web applications. Outside agents run automations through the Control Room REST API or its MCP inbound endpoint.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere.md (~6,200 tokens) · this version ~1,480 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-14

**D · 50.9/100 · rank #815 of 1076 · #5 in Desktop & mobile app control · not agent-ready · confidence low**


Assessment: The Control Room's /mcp endpoint gives an MCP client three standard tools to discover, run and read automations under RBAC, with each run in the audit log. No API rate limits, error catalogue, SLA or prices were found in public pages, and DiscoverAutomation and RunAutomation need an Enterprise licence with the Process Reasoning Engine in the US or Europe.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Automation Anywhere · category: Desktop & mobile app control · legal entity: Automation Anywhere, Inc. · provenance 86/100
- Endpoint: `https://<control-room>/mcp` (HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service under Automation Anywhere's customer agreement and product-specific terms
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Interfaces: Control Room REST API (v1 to v4 modules, Swagger at https://{control-room}/swagger/) and MCP inbound over HTTP at https://<control-room>/mcp
- Starting a run: Bot Deploy API v4 deploys bots from the public workspace to Bot Runner devices. Through MCP, RunAutomation starts a bot, process, AI agent or API task and returns a job ID for GetAutomationResult
- MCP tools: DiscoverAutomation (top nine matches, Enterprise with PRE), RunAutomation (Enterprise with PRE), GetAutomationResult (Base or Enterprise), plus custom inbound tools configured under AI > Agent connections
- Credentials: Authentication API token in X-Authorization, or OAuth bearer token. MCP inbound uses an OAuth client created by an administrator, with users signing in through OIDC or SAML
- Audit: Agent connection created, updated and deleted, and device acquired, bot sent, run deployed and run finished for each MCP-triggered run (https://docs.automationanywhere.com/r/automation-360/mcp-inbound-audit-log-agent-connections)
- Deprecation policy: APIs supported at least two years, then available at least one more year (four releases) after a deprecation notice
- Maintenance windows: Release updates are announced at least two weeks ahead on the status site and typically last two hours per region
- Regions: Control Room components listed on the status site for the US, Canada, Brazil, Europe, India, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Bahrain and South Africa
- Free tier: Community Edition on Automation 360 Cloud, free with no credit card required, for students, developers and organisations below 250 machines, 250 users or $5 million revenue

- Scores: Reliability 35, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 55, Agent ergonomics 60, Security & auth 64, Payments & pricing 15, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 66, Transparency & trust 73 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded on the hosted Control Room API and MCP inbound. · Schema & documentation, Every Control Room serves Swagger at /swagger/, which needs a Control Room of one's own. · Agent ergonomics, Three standard MCP tools plus the inbound tools an administrator adds, and DiscoverAutomation returns at most nine matches (22 of 25). · Security & auth, OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens or Authentication API tokens, with users authenticated through OIDC or SAML. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Cloud build 53728 went out on 7 October 2026 (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with published website terms, an Intelligent Automation Agreement and product-specific terms (15).
- Sources: 16, open questions: 5, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: desktop.rpa, desktop.orchestration, desktop.control
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/automation-anywhere.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/automation-anywhere.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere from a page on automationanywhere.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Call DiscoverAutomation with a specific query such as `Discover automations to create invoice in SAP`. It returns at most nine matches
2. Keep the job ID from RunAutomation and poll GetAutomationResult until the status leaves Running/InProgress
3. Send either `X-Authorization` with a token from the Authentication API or `Authorization: Bearer` from OAuth, never both in one request
4. Match the case of every JSON parameter name. The Control Room API treats names as case-sensitive
5. Use the v4 WLM endpoints. Eight v3 WLM endpoints were deprecated in v.43 and end with v.46

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| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UiPath | B | 68.2 | desktop.rpa, desktop.orchestration, desktop.control | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath.min.md |
| Robocorp | B | 65.5 | desktop.rpa, desktop.control, desktop.orchestration | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robocorp.min.md |
| Robot Framework | BB | 76.4 | desktop.rpa | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robot-framework.min.md |
| AutoHotkey | D | 52.8 | desktop.control | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autohotkey.min.md |
| AutoIt | D | 46.3 | desktop.control | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autoit.min.md |


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