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CodeNOW

CodeNOW is a Prague-based governance and execution platform for AI-scale software delivery — a control plane that determines how software moves through the SDLC regardless of whether a human or an AI agent wrote it. Founded by an ex-IBM team, CodeNOW provides a governed execution layer that enforces organizational policies and standards across human and non-human actors, making every action auditable, stoppable, and structurally controlled. The platform manages applications, components, containers, libraries, builds, releases, deployments, environments and Kubernetes clusters, and is available in cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments. It exposes a versioned REST API (media-type versioning) authenticated with an API key, plus an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that wraps the API so AI assistants and agents can operate the platform directly.

agent aware

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 CodeNOW the way a machine reads it — 5 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — CodeNOW scores 33.1/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (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 — 33.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile CodeNOW

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CodeNOW. 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 1

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.

CodeNOW API

Versioned REST API for the CodeNOW platform covering applications, components, containers, libraries, builds, releases, triggers, deployments, environments, clusters, managed se...

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.

codenow-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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.

Codenow Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

Codenow Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Codenow Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for CodeNOW — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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