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Conductor OSS

Conductor OSS is the Netflix-founded, Orkes-stewarded open source workflow and agentic AI orchestration platform. It provides a durable, event-driven workflow engine for coordinating microservices, long-running tasks, human approvals, and LLM-powered agents across any language or cloud, with first class support for HTTP, gRPC, Kafka, AMQP, SQS, and MCP-based tool calling.

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 Conductor OSS the way a machine reads it — 38 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 — Conductor OSS scores 34.6/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 17/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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Conductor OSS Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Conductor OSS

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Conductor OSS. 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 5

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.

Conductor MCP Server

Conductor MCP is an official Model Context Protocol server for Orkes Conductor that exposes workflow execution, task management, and metadata operations as MCP tools so that LLM...

Conductor OSS Events API

The Events API from Conductor OSS — 1 operation(s) for events.

Conductor OSS Metadata API

The Metadata API from Conductor OSS — 4 operation(s) for metadata.

Conductor OSS Tasks API

The Tasks API from Conductor OSS — 5 operation(s) for tasks.

Conductor OSS Workflow API

The Workflow API from Conductor OSS — 9 operation(s) for workflow.

Open Collections 6

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).

Features 7

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.

Durable Workflow Execution

Workflow state is persisted at every step so executions survive worker restarts, server failover, and long human-in-the-loop waits.

Polyglot Workers

Tasks are executed by language-agnostic workers that poll the server, with official SDKs in Java, Python, Go, JavaScript / TypeScript, C#, Clojure, Ruby, and Rust.

System Tasks and Operators

Built-in HTTP, Kafka, JQ, wait, human approval, sub-workflow, fork, join, switch, do-while, and dynamic-fork operators compose workflows without writing code.

Agentic AI and LLM Orchestration

Native LLM tasks for 14+ providers, vector database integrations for RAG, MCP tool calling, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints make Conductor a runtime for agentic AI applications.

Event-Driven Triggers

Event handlers consume from Kafka, AMQP, SQS, NATS, and webhook sources to start workflows or complete tasks from external systems.

Horizontal Scalability

Stateless API servers and worker pools scale horizontally, with pluggable persistence (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis) and indexing (OpenSearch / Elasticsearch).

Operational Observability

Built-in metrics, structured logs, distributed tracing, and a Swagger UI on every server expose the workflow surface for operators.

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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.

Conductor Oss 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.

Conductor Oss Agentic Access

26 operations · 15 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

26 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

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.

Microservices Orchestration

Coordinate sagas, compensations, retries, and timeouts across distributed microservices without bespoke orchestration code.

AI Agent Orchestration

Run production-grade agentic workflows with reasoning loops, tool calling, MCP integration, RAG retrieval, and human approvals.

Payment and Order Processing

Reliable long-running flows for payments, fulfillment, KYC, and onboarding — the reference example workload shipped by Conductor.

Data and ML Pipelines

Schedule and orchestrate ETL, model training, and inference pipelines with durable retries and conditional branching.

Human-in-the-Loop Approvals

Pause workflows on human tasks, capture approvals via UI or API, and resume execution deterministically.

Event-Driven Integration

Bridge message brokers and SaaS webhooks into deterministic workflows across the enterprise.

Integrations 9

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Apache Kafka

System task and event-handler integration for Kafka topics.

AMQP / RabbitMQ

Built-in AMQP system task and event source.

AWS SQS

Native SQS event queue and system task module.

NATS

NATS event queue integration for triggering workflows.

PostgreSQL / MySQL / Cassandra / Redis

Pluggable persistence backends for workflow and task state.

OpenSearch / Elasticsearch

Pluggable indexing backends powering search and history.

AWS S3 / Azure Blob

External payload storage for large workflow inputs and outputs.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Official MCP server exposes Conductor to AI agents as tools.

gRPC

gRPC API surface alongside the REST API for high-performance clients.

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Solutions 3

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

Conductor OSS

Apache 2.0 open source workflow engine, self-hosted via Docker, Helm, or source build.

Orkes Developer Edition

Free hosted Conductor sandbox by Orkes with all enterprise features enabled for prototyping and learning.

Orkes Enterprise / Cloud

Fully managed Conductor on AWS, Azure, GCP, or on-prem with SOC2, RBAC, SSO, audit logs, and up to 99.99% availability SLA.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Conductor OSS — 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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 2

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

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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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Conductor OSS, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

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