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Apache Software Foundation

APIs for the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit organization that supports the development of open-source software projects under the Apache License, providing governance, legal protection, and infrastructure for over 350 projects. The ASF exposes public APIs for project discovery, committee governance data, member information, and organizational structure through its Projects API and Whimsy Public Data API.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Apache Software Foundation the way a machine reads it — 41 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Apache Software Foundation scores 56.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 56.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Apache Software Foundation

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Apache Software Foundation. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 9

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Apache Software Foundation Projects API

The Apache Software Foundation Projects API provides read-only access to JSON data about ASF projects, committees, releases, and podlings. The data is served as static JSON file...

Apache Software Foundation Committees API

The Committees API from Apache Software Foundation — 3 operation(s) for committees.

Apache Software Foundation Foundation API

The Foundation API from Apache Software Foundation — 1 operation(s) for foundation.

Apache Software Foundation Groups API

The Groups API from Apache Software Foundation — 1 operation(s) for groups.

Apache Software Foundation ICLA API

The ICLA API from Apache Software Foundation — 1 operation(s) for icla.

Apache Software Foundation Members API

The Members API from Apache Software Foundation — 1 operation(s) for members.

Apache Software Foundation People API

The People API from Apache Software Foundation — 3 operation(s) for people.

Apache Software Foundation Podlings API

The Podlings API from Apache Software Foundation — 2 operation(s) for podlings.

Apache Software Foundation Releases API

The Releases API from Apache Software Foundation — 1 operation(s) for releases.

Scroll within the panel for all 9 ·

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 5

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Project Directory

Comprehensive directory of all 350+ ASF top-level projects with metadata.

Committee Data

Project Management Committee membership, chair, and governance information.

Podling Tracking

Apache Incubator podling status, mentors, and graduation tracking.

Release History

Release version and date history for all ASF projects.

Whimsy Member Data

Public member, committer, and ICLA data from the ASF Whimsy system.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Apache Software Foundation Asf Context

5 classes · 22 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Apache Software Foundation API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Apache Software Foundation API Rules

22 rules · 8 errors · 11 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Apache Software Foundation Committee

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Apache Software Foundation Podling

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Apache Software Foundation Project

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Examples 3

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Apache Software Foundation Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Apache Software Foundation Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Apache Software Foundation Agentic Access

14 operations

14 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 4

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Apache Project Discovery

Discover and explore all Apache Software Foundation projects programmatically.

Governance Transparency

Access committee membership and governance data for ASF organizational research.

Release Monitoring

Track release histories and versions across all ASF projects.

Incubator Tracking

Monitor Apache Incubator podlings and their progression to top-level projects.

Integrations 3

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Apache GitHub Organization

All ASF project repositories hosted under the apache GitHub organization.

ASF JIRA

Issue tracking at issues.apache.org for all ASF project bug reports and features.

Apache Confluence

Wiki documentation at cwiki.apache.org for ASF project and foundation docs.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Apache Software Foundation — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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