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Docker Hub

Docker Hub is the world's largest container image registry, providing a cloud-based service for finding, storing, sharing, and managing container images. It offers public and private repositories, automated builds, webhooks, and integrations with Docker tooling and CI/CD pipelines.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Docker Hub the way a machine reads it — 18 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 — Docker Hub scores 49.9/100 (developing), 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 — 49.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 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 Docker Hub

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Docker Hub. 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 10

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.

Docker Hub access-tokens API

The Personal Access Token endpoints lets you manage personal access tokens. For more information, see [Access Tokens](https://docs.docker.com/security/access-tokens/). You can u...

Docker Hub audit-logs API

The Audit Logs API endpoints allow you to query audit log events across a namespace. For more information, see [Audit Logs](https://docs.docker.com/admin/activity-logs/).

Docker Hub authentication-api API

The authentication endpoints allow you to authenticate with Docker Hub APIs. For more information, see [Authentication](#tag/authentication).

Docker Hub groups API

The groups endpoints allow you to manage your organization's teams and their members. For more information, see [Create and manage a team](https://docs.docker.com/admin/organiza...

Docker Hub invites API

The invites endpoints allow you to manage invites for users to join your Docker organization. For more information, see [Invite members](https://docs.docker.com/admin/organizati...

Docker Hub org-access-tokens API

The organization access token endpoints allow you to manage organization access tokens (OATs). See [Organization access tokens](https://docs.docker.com/security/for-admins/acces...

Docker Hub org-settings API

The Org Settings API endpoints allow you to manage your organization's settings.

Docker Hub orgs API

The organization endpoints allow you to interact with and manage your organizations. For more information, see [Organization administration overview](https://docs.docker.com/adm...

Docker Hub repositories API

The repository endpoints allow you to access your repository's tags.

Docker Hub scim API

SCIM is a provisioning system that lets you manage users within your identity provider (IdP). For more information, see [System for Cross-domain Identity management](https://doc...

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Open Collections 1

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).

Docker HUB 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.

Docker Hub Rate Limits

5 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.

Security Posture 3

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.

Docker Hub Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Docker Hub Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Docker Hub Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

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.

Docker Hub Agentic Access

54 operations · 27 acting

54 operations · 27 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Docker Hub — 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 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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