Dronecode Foundation
The Dronecode Foundation is a vendor-neutral Linux Foundation collaborative project and the home of the open source flight stack the drone industry runs on: PX4 Autopilot, the MAVLink communication protocol, MAVSDK, QGroundControl and the Pixhawk hardware standards. Its machine-readable surface is a gRPC one — MAVSDK-Proto publishes 38 protobuf services and 387 RPCs covering arming, takeoff, missions, geofencing, telemetry, camera, gimbal and parameter control — alongside the MAVLink dialect XML and the component-metadata JSON Schemas that define how vehicles describe themselves. Nothing is hosted: the consumer runs mavsdk_server themselves, and every contract, SDK and firmware is free and open source.
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 Dronecode Foundation the way a machine reads it — 16 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 — Dronecode Foundation scores 48.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 25/100 (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.
Kin Score
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How we profile Dronecode Foundation
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Dronecode Foundation. 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 4
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.
PX4 Autopilot
PX4 is the open source flight control firmware the Dronecode Foundation stewards — the software running on the vehicle that MAVLink and MAVSDK talk to. It exposes no network API...
MAVSDK gRPC API
MAVSDK is the Dronecode Foundation's programmable interface to any MAVLink vehicle, and the only surface in the estate with a full machine-readable contract. 38 protobuf service...
MAVLink Protocol
MAVLink is the message-level interoperability standard for drones, and the Dronecode Foundation publishes it. The contract is the dialect XML — 19 files including common.xml, st...
dronecode.org WordPress REST API
The only HTTP API the Foundation itself hosts, and the one its RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog advertises. The discovery root is anonymous and lists 74 routes across 7 namespa...
MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
MCP candidate (no server published)
Derived candidate tool list. Dronecode publishes no MCP server — deployment.mode is none.
MCP SERVERPricing 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.
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.
Dronecode 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.
Dronecode Finops
FINOPSJSON Schema 5
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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Dronecode Foundation — 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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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