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Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry is an open-source, multi-cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. It provides a developer-friendly application platform where operators push source code or container images and Cloud Foundry handles staging, routing, scaling, and lifecycle management. The CF API (api.cloudfoundry.org) is the primary control plane and is documented at v3.cloudfoundry.org/version/release-candidate. The ecosystem also includes the User Account and Authentication (UAA) OAuth 2.0 server, the Loggregator log and metric pipeline, the Diego container scheduler, the Open Service Broker API for marketplace services, and the Eirini Kubernetes-based scheduler.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Cloud Foundry the way a machine reads it — 18 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 — Cloud Foundry scores 36.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 47/100 (agent ready). 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 — 36.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 4.1 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 47/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Cloud Foundry

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cloud Foundry. 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 12

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.

Cloud Foundry UAA

The User Account and Authentication (UAA) server is Cloud Foundry's identity provider and OAuth 2.0 authorization server. It issues tokens consumed by the Cloud Controller, brok...

Cloud Foundry Loggregator

Loggregator is Cloud Foundry's distributed log and metric pipeline that aggregates application logs, platform component logs, and metrics for streaming consumption by users and ...

Open Service Broker API

The Open Service Broker API is the open specification originally developed by Cloud Foundry and now used by Kubernetes and other platforms to provision and manage backing servic...

BOSH Director API

BOSH is Cloud Foundry's release engineering tool for packaging, deploying, and managing distributed software. The BOSH Director API exposes deployment, stemcell, release, task, ...

Cloud Foundry Apps API

The Apps API from Cloud Foundry — 4 operation(s) for apps.

Cloud Foundry Builds API

The Builds API from Cloud Foundry — 1 operation(s) for builds.

Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller API V3 API

The Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller API V3 API from Cloud Foundry — 2 operation(s) for cloud foundry cloud controller api v3.

Cloud Foundry Deployments API

The Deployments API from Cloud Foundry — 1 operation(s) for deployments.

Cloud Foundry Jobs API

The Jobs API from Cloud Foundry — 1 operation(s) for jobs.

Cloud Foundry Organizations API

The Organizations API from Cloud Foundry — 2 operation(s) for organizations.

Cloud Foundry Service Instances API

The Service Instances API from Cloud Foundry — 2 operation(s) for service instances.

Cloud Foundry Spaces API

The Spaces API from Cloud Foundry — 2 operation(s) for spaces.

Scroll within the panel for all 12 ·

Open Collections 1

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).

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.

Cloud Foundry Context

0 classes · 11 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.

Cloud Foundry API Rules

10 rules · 4 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

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.

Cloud Foundry Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cloud Foundry Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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.

Cloud Foundry Agentic Access

29 operations · 16 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

29 operations · 16 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Cloud Foundry — 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.

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

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/cloud-foundry · machine-readable index on apis.io