CHAOSS
CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software) is a Linux Foundation project that develops metrics, methodologies, software, and practitioner guides for measuring and improving open source community health and sustainability. It produces a metrics catalog organized into focus areas (Common, DEI, Risk, Value, Evolution) and metrics models, along with open source software (Augur, 8Knot, GrimoireLab) that ingests data from Git, GitHub, GitLab, mailing lists, and other community platforms to compute the metrics. CHAOSS-aligned SaaS services such as OSS Compass and Bitergia Analytics also expose the metrics for adopters who do not want to host the software themselves.
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 CHAOSS the way a machine reads it — 49 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 — CHAOSS scores 26.7/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile CHAOSS
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CHAOSS. 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 4
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.
CHAOSS Augur REST API
Augur is a CHAOSS reference implementation that collects data from GitHub, GitLab, mailing lists, and other community sources, and exposes a REST API for querying CHAOSS-aligned...
CHAOSS Metrics Catalog
The CHAOSS Metrics catalog is a community-maintained, structured reference of community-health metrics organized into focus areas (Common, DEI, Risk, Value, Evolution) plus metr...
CHAOSS GrimoireLab
GrimoireLab is an open source platform for software development analytics. It pulls data from 30+ data sources (Git, GitHub, GitLab, mailing lists, IRC, Slack, Jira, Bugzilla, e...
CHAOSS 8Knot Dashboard
8Knot is an open source community analytics dashboard built on top of Augur that provides ready-made visualizations of CHAOSS metrics for stakeholders evaluating open source pro...
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.
Chaoss 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.
Chaoss 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.
Chaoss Finops
FINOPSFeatures 15
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.
Community Health Metrics
Metrics Models
DEI Metrics
Risk Metrics
Value Metrics
Evolution Metrics
Common Metrics
Open Source Software
Practitioner Guides
Working Groups
Reference Implementations
REST API (Augur)
Data Pipeline (GrimoireLab)
Dashboards (8Knot, Bitergia)
SaaS Adopter Services
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Security 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.
Use Cases 10
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.
Open Source Project Health Assessment
Contributor Sustainability Analysis
DEI in Open Source Communities
Open Source Risk and Security Assessment
Open Source Investment ROI
Funding Impact Measurement
Community Onboarding Improvement
Foundation-Level Reporting
OSPO Health Reporting
Maintainer Burnout Detection
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Integrations 16
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Git
Mailing Lists
Jira
Bugzilla
Discourse
Slack
IRC
Stack Exchange
Meetup
Linux Foundation
CNCF
Apache Software Foundation
OpenSSF
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Resources
Every other property we hold for CHAOSS — 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 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 2
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 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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