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Commvault

Commvault is a cloud-native cyber resilience platform that delivers unified data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery. The Commvault REST API, Command Center API, and Automation API provide programmatic access to backup, restore, replication, threat scan, reporting, and orchestration capabilities across enterprise workloads spanning on-premises, virtual machines, and cloud applications.

agent ready

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 Commvault the way a machine reads it — 38 machine-readable artifacts across 24 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 — Commvault scores 62.8/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 — 62.8/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · 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 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Commvault

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Commvault. 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 24

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.

Commvault Agents API

Manage backup agents installed on clients

Commvault Alerts API

Manage alerts and notification configurations

Commvault Authentication API

Login and token management operations

Commvault Clients API

Manage clients (servers, workstations, virtual machines)

Commvault Dashboard API

Dashboard summary and health monitoring

Commvault Databases API

Manage database protection

Commvault File Servers API

Manage file server protection

Commvault Jobs API

View and manage backup, restore, and administrative jobs

Commvault Laptops API

Manage laptop backup operations

Commvault Operations API

Trigger and monitor automated operations

Commvault Plans API

Manage server plans for data protection

Commvault Policies API

Manage data protection policies

Commvault Reports API

Reporting and analytics

Commvault Schedule Policies API

Manage schedule policies for automated operations

Commvault Schedules API

Manage job schedules and schedule policies

Commvault Scripts API

Manage and execute automation scripts

Commvault Server Groups API

Manage server groups for organizing protected infrastructure

Commvault SLA API

Service Level Agreement compliance monitoring

Commvault Storage API

Storage pool and library management

Commvault Storage Policies API

Manage storage policies and copies

Commvault Subclients API

Manage subclients that define backup content

Commvault Users API

Manage Commvault users and user groups

Commvault Virtual Machines API

Manage virtual machine backup and recovery

Commvault Workflows API

Create, manage, and execute automation workflows

Scroll within the panel for all 24 ·

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).

Commvault Automation API

OPEN COLLECTION

Commvault REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

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.

Commvault Rate Limits

1 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.

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.

Commvault Context

0 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

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.

Commvault API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Commvault API Rules

10 rules · 4 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Commvault Backup Job

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Commvault Client

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Commvault Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Commvault 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.

Commvault Agentic Access

60 operations · 25 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

60 operations · 25 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Commvault — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

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 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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