> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.benchling.com/in-vivo/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.benchling.com/in-vivo/_mcp/server.

# Introduction

The Benchling In Vivo API is organized around [REST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer). Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts JSON-encoded request bodies, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.