Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is an enterprise talent management platform offering REST APIs for learning management, performance reviews, succession planning, recruiting, and workforce analytics. The APIs are RESTful, support OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials authentication, and return JSON (with some XML support). Developers can integrate with modules including Core HR, Learning, Performance, Recruiting, Reporting, Bulk data import, Connectors, and Webhooks through the Cornerstone Developer Portal at csod.dev.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Cornerstone OnDemand the way a machine reads it — 12 machine-readable artifacts across 7 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 — Cornerstone OnDemand scores 30.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 12/100 (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
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How we profile Cornerstone OnDemand
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cornerstone OnDemand. 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 7
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.
Cornerstone Employee and OU API
Synchronize employee records and organizational unit (OU) structures between external systems and Cornerstone. Supports create, read, update, and deactivate operations for users...
Cornerstone Learning Assignment API
Programmatically assign training courses to user transcripts asynchronously. Track assignment status and search for existing assignments across the enterprise.
Cornerstone Recruiting API
Manage the full recruiting lifecycle including job requisitions, candidate profiles, applications, and offer management. Supports applicant tracking system (ATS) integrations.
Cornerstone Reporting API
Access workforce analytics and reporting data using an OData-compatible interface with server-driven paging. Supports BI tool integrations including Power BI.
Cornerstone Bulk API
Reliably import large volumes of data into Cornerstone either as a one-time load or recurring system-to-system synchronization. Supports asynchronous job submission, status trac...
Cornerstone Performance API
Access and manage performance review cycles, goals, competencies, ratings, and succession planning data for enterprise workforce development workflows.
Cornerstone Webhooks
Subscribe to near real-time HTTP event notifications for critical Cornerstone business events including learner enrollment, course completion, candidate creation, account creati...
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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.
Cornerstone Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Cornerstone Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Cornerstone Context
JSON-LDSecurity 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cornerstone OnDemand — 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
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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