CSIRO
CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and innovation catalyst, an Australian Government body that solves major challenges through science and technology across areas such as agriculture, health, oceans and climate, energy, digital and space. Its Data Access Portal (DAP) publishes RESTful web service APIs: a public read-only /dap/ws/v2 collections API for searching and retrieving research data collections, and a staff-only /dap/api/v2 deposit API. CSIRO was surfaced via the australia-apidays-2026 harvest.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles CSIRO the way a machine reads it — 46 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — CSIRO scores 45.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 33/100 (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. 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.
Kin Score
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How we profile CSIRO
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CSIRO. 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 20
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.
CSIRO AAHL API
The AAHL API from CSIRO — 2 operation(s) for aahl.
CSIRO Api-V2 Admin API
The Api-V2 Admin API from CSIRO — 80 operation(s) for api-v2 admin.
CSIRO Api-V2 Authentication API
The Api-V2 Authentication API from CSIRO — 1 operation(s) for api-v2 authentication.
CSIRO Api-V2 Casda Observations API
The Api-V2 Casda Observations API from CSIRO — 2 operation(s) for api-v2 casda observations.
CSIRO Api-V2 Collections API
The Api-V2 Collections API from CSIRO — 47 operation(s) for api-v2 collections.
CSIRO Api-V2 DNA Sequence Collections API
The Api-V2 DNA Sequence Collections API from CSIRO — 6 operation(s) for api-v2 dna sequence collections.
CSIRO Api-V2 Supporting Data API
The Api-V2 Supporting Data API from CSIRO — 57 operation(s) for api-v2 supporting data.
CSIRO Api-V2 User Profile API
The Api-V2 User Profile API from CSIRO — 7 operation(s) for api-v2 user profile.
CSIRO Api-V2 User Tasks API
The Api-V2 User Tasks API from CSIRO — 15 operation(s) for api-v2 user tasks.
CSIRO ATNF API
The ATNF API from CSIRO — 4 operation(s) for atnf.
CSIRO CASDA API
The CASDA API from CSIRO — 19 operation(s) for casda.
CSIRO Collection Browse API
The Collection Browse API from CSIRO — 2 operation(s) for collection browse.
CSIRO Collection Data API
The Collection Data API from CSIRO — 11 operation(s) for collection data.
CSIRO Collection Download API
The Collection Download API from CSIRO — 12 operation(s) for collection download.
CSIRO Collection Search API
The Collection Search API from CSIRO — 20 operation(s) for collection search.
CSIRO External Systems API
The External Systems API from CSIRO — 2 operation(s) for external systems.
CSIRO Licence API
The Licence API from CSIRO — 2 operation(s) for licence.
CSIRO ORCID API
The ORCID API from CSIRO — 3 operation(s) for orcid.
CSIRO Specimen Images API
The Specimen_Images API from CSIRO — 6 operation(s) for specimen_images.
CSIRO UI Display API
The UI Display API from CSIRO — 3 operation(s) for ui display.
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Agent Skills 4
An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
csiro-browse-and-filter-collections
AGENT SKILLcsiro-casda-cutouts
AGENT SKILLcsiro-find-and-download-dataset
AGENT SKILLcsiro-search-specimen-images
AGENT SKILLPricing 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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Csiro Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Csiro Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSemantic 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.
Csiro Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
CSIRO API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 14
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.
CasdaMetadataDto
JSON SCHEMACasdaObservationSearchDto
JSON SCHEMACasdaObservationValidationDTO
JSON SCHEMADataCollectionDTO
JSON SCHEMADataCollectionDtoV2
JSON SCHEMADataCollectionsResultDto
JSON SCHEMADoiFilesDatasetDTO
JSON SCHEMAGlobusCollectionDTO
JSON SCHEMAMyCollection
JSON SCHEMAOrcidResultsDto
JSON SCHEMAOrcidUserDTO
JSON SCHEMAOrcidWorkDTO
JSON SCHEMASpecimenImageResultDto
JSON SCHEMASpecimenImageSearchRequestDto
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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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for CSIRO — 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
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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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 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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This is an independent, third-party profile of CSIRO, 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.
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