Argo CD
Argo CD is a declarative GitOps continuous-delivery tool for Kubernetes, part of the CNCF Graduated Argo project. The argocd-server component exposes a gRPC and REST API used by the Web UI, the argocd CLI, and CI/CD systems. APIs cover applications, projects, clusters, repositories, accounts, certificates, GPG keys, sessions, settings, and notifications. Argo CD is also a Kubernetes operator that defines first-class CRDs (Application, ApplicationSet, AppProject) — those CRDs are themselves a Kubernetes-native API. Argo CD is open-source under the Apache 2.0 license; commercial offerings are provided by third parties (notably Akuity, founded by the Argo project's creators) rather than the Argo CD project itself.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Argo CD the way a machine reads it — 47 machine-readable artifacts across 27 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 — Argo CD scores 27.6/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 25/100 (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
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How we profile Argo CD
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Argo CD. 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 27
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.
Argo CD ApplicationSets API
The Argo CD ApplicationSets API (/api/v1/applicationsets) manages ApplicationSet resources — templated app generators (List, Cluster, Git, Matrix, Merge, Pull Request, SCM Provi...
Argo CD Projects API
The Argo CD Projects API (/api/v1/projects) manages AppProject resources — multi-tenant boundaries that restrict the source repos, destination clusters/namespaces, and resource ...
Argo CD Clusters API
The Argo CD Clusters API (/api/v1/clusters) registers, updates, lists, and removes target Kubernetes clusters that Argo CD deploys into, including cluster credentials, sharding ...
Argo CD Repositories API
The Argo CD Repositories API (/api/v1/repositories and /api/v1/repocreds) manages Git, Helm chart, and OCI-registry source repositories with credentials, certificates, and per-r...
Argo CD Accounts API
The Argo CD Accounts API (/api/v1/account) manages local accounts and their API tokens (capability for service accounts), including password rotation and token issuance/revocation.
Argo CD Sessions API
The Argo CD Sessions API (/api/v1/session) issues bearer tokens for username/password and OIDC-authenticated sessions used by all other API endpoints.
Argo CD Settings API
The Argo CD Settings API (/api/v1/settings) returns the active server configuration — UI banner, OIDC config, Helm/Kustomize plugin defaults, resource exclusions, application in...
Argo CD Certificates API
The Argo CD Certificates API (/api/v1/certificates) manages TLS certificates and SSH known_hosts entries used to securely connect to private Git, Helm, and OCI repositories.
Argo CD GPG Keys API
The Argo CD GPG Keys API (/api/v1/gpgkeys) registers and removes GPG public keys used to verify signed commits before they are deployed.
Argo CD Notifications API
The Argo CD Notifications subsystem delivers app lifecycle events (sync, health, deploy) to webhooks, Slack, MS Teams, email, GitHub commit status, and other channels via templa...
Argo CD Version API
The Argo CD Version API (/api/version) returns the running argocd-server build version, Kustomize/Helm/Jsonnet versions, and Kubernetes server version.
Argo CD Application CRD
Argo CD defines an Application Custom Resource Definition (argoproj.io/v1alpha1, kind=Application) describing a desired sync of a single source (Git/Helm/OCI) to a destination c...
Argo CD ApplicationSet CRD
Argo CD defines an ApplicationSet Custom Resource Definition (argoproj.io/v1alpha1, kind=ApplicationSet) which templatizes Application creation across many targets via pluggable...
Argo CD AppProject CRD
Argo CD defines an AppProject Custom Resource Definition (argoproj.io/v1alpha1, kind=AppProject) which scopes which sources, destinations, and resource kinds Applications inside...
Argo CD AccountService API
The AccountService API from Argo CD — 6 operation(s) for accountservice.
Argo CD ApplicationService API
The ApplicationService API from Argo CD — 26 operation(s) for applicationservice.
Argo CD ApplicationSetService API
The ApplicationSetService API from Argo CD — 6 operation(s) for applicationsetservice.
Argo CD CertificateService API
The CertificateService API from Argo CD — 1 operation(s) for certificateservice.
Argo CD ClusterService API
The ClusterService API from Argo CD — 4 operation(s) for clusterservice.
Argo CD GPGKeyService API
The GPGKeyService API from Argo CD — 2 operation(s) for gpgkeyservice.
Argo CD NotificationService API
The NotificationService API from Argo CD — 3 operation(s) for notificationservice.
Argo CD ProjectService API
The ProjectService API from Argo CD — 10 operation(s) for projectservice.
Argo CD RepoCredsService API
The RepoCredsService API from Argo CD — 6 operation(s) for repocredsservice.
Argo CD RepositoryService API
The RepositoryService API from Argo CD — 13 operation(s) for repositoryservice.
Argo CD SessionService API
The SessionService API from Argo CD — 2 operation(s) for sessionservice.
Argo CD SettingsService API
The SettingsService API from Argo CD — 2 operation(s) for settingsservice.
Argo CD VersionService API
The VersionService API from Argo CD — 1 operation(s) for versionservice.
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Open Collections 15
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService ApplicationService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService CertificateService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService ClusterService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService GPGKeyService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService NotificationService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService ProjectService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService RepoCredsService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService RepositoryService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService SessionService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService SettingsService API
OPEN COLLECTIONConsolidate Services AccountService VersionService API
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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.
Argocd Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Argocd Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Argocd Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 1
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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Argo CD — 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 5
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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