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Chef

Chef (Progress Chef) provides infrastructure automation, compliance, and application delivery tooling. Chef exposes REST APIs for the Infra Server (managing nodes, cookbooks, roles, environments, and data bags), Chef Automate (visibility into convergence, compliance, and deployment), Habitat Builder (application packaging and delivery), and InSpec (a language and runner for security and compliance testing).

agent native

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Chef the way a machine reads it — 39 machine-readable artifacts across 14 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 — Chef scores 64.6/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 64/100 (agent native). 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 — 64.6/100 · strong
Contract Quality 14.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 13.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 64/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Chef

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Chef. 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 14

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.

Chef InSpec

InSpec is an open-source language and runner for security and compliance testing. It is consumed via the InSpec CLI and Ruby DSL, and surfaced inside Chef Automate as compliance...

Chef Channels API

The Channels API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for channels.

Chef Clients API

The Clients API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for clients.

Chef Cookbooks API

The Cookbooks API from Chef — 2 operation(s) for cookbooks.

Chef Data Bags API

The Data Bags API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for data bags.

Chef Environments API

The Environments API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for environments.

Chef IAM API

The IAM API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for iam.

Chef Nodes API

The Nodes API from Chef — 3 operation(s) for nodes.

Chef Packages API

The Packages API from Chef — 2 operation(s) for packages.

Chef Profiles API

The Profiles API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for profiles.

Chef Reports API

The Reports API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for reports.

Chef Roles API

The Roles API from Chef — 2 operation(s) for roles.

Chef Scans API

The Scans API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for scans.

Chef Users API

The Users API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for users.

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Open Collections 3

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).

Chef Automate API

OPEN COLLECTION

Chef Habitat Builder API

OPEN COLLECTION

Chef Infra Server API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 8

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Chef Review Access Across Infra Server and Automate

Enumerate Infra Server clients and users alongside Automate IAM users for one access review.

ARAZZO

Chef Automate Run a Compliance Scan and Retrieve Reports

Resolve profiles and nodes, launch a scan job, then search reporting for the results.

ARAZZO

Chef Habitat Audit an Origin's Package Releases and Channels

List an origin's packages, resolve one package's releases, and map the origin's promotion channels.

ARAZZO

Chef Snapshot an Infra Server Organization Inventory

Walk nodes, cookbooks, roles, environments, and data bags to build one organization snapshot.

ARAZZO

Chef Decommission a Node

Capture a node's final state, delete the node object, and confirm it left the inventory.

ARAZZO

Chef Register a Node on the Infra Server

Check whether a node already exists, create it if it does not, and read it back.

ARAZZO

Chef Add a Cookbook to a Node Run List

Confirm a cookbook exists, read the node, append the recipe to its run list, and verify.

ARAZZO

Chef Define a Role and Assign It to a Node

Create a role, read it back, then place it in a node's run list.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

chef-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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.

Chef Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Chef Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

Chef Finops

FINOPS

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.

Chef Context

0 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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.

Chef API Rules

5 rules · 4 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.

Chef Compliance Profile

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Chef Node

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Chef Role

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 4

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.

Chef Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Chef Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Chef Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Chef Trust Center

HIPAA

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.

Chef Agentic Access

22 operations · 6 acting

22 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Chef — 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

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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