Flowable
Flowable is an open-source BPM and workflow engine with rich REST APIs for deploying process definitions, starting process instances, managing tasks, querying workflow state, and orchestrating AI agents, people, and processes together. It provides BPMN, CMMN, and DMN automation engines via Java and REST APIs, with enterprise offerings for regulated industries.
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 Flowable the way a machine reads it — 85 machine-readable artifacts across 64 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 — Flowable scores 54.3/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Flowable
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Flowable. 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 64
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.
Flowable Access Tokens API
The Access Tokens API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for access tokens.
Flowable Accounts API
The Accounts API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for accounts.
Flowable Acquire and Execute API
The Acquire and Execute API from Flowable — 5 operation(s) for acquire and execute.
Flowable Batch parts API
The Batch parts API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for batch parts.
Flowable Batches API
The Batches API from Flowable — 5 operation(s) for batches.
Flowable Case Definitions API
The Case Definitions API from Flowable — 16 operation(s) for case definitions.
Flowable Case Instance Identity Links API
The Case Instance Identity Links API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for case instance identity links.
Flowable Case Instance Variables API
The Case Instance Variables API from Flowable — 5 operation(s) for case instance variables.
Flowable Case Instances API
The Case Instances API from Flowable — 9 operation(s) for case instances.
Flowable Cmmn Engine API
The Cmmn Engine API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for cmmn engine.
Flowable Contact Filters API
The Contact Filters API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for contact filters.
Flowable Content item API
The Content item API from Flowable — 11 operation(s) for content item.
Flowable Content item metadata API
The Content item metadata API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for content item metadata.
Flowable Current User API
The Current User API from Flowable — 5 operation(s) for current user.
Flowable Database tables API
The Database tables API from Flowable — 4 operation(s) for database tables.
Flowable Decision Tables API
The Decision Tables API from Flowable — 4 operation(s) for decision tables.
Flowable Decisions API
The Decisions API from Flowable — 5 operation(s) for decisions.
Flowable Deployment API
The Deployment API from Flowable — 18 operation(s) for deployment.
Flowable DMN Decision Service API
The DMN Decision Service API from Flowable — 4 operation(s) for dmn decision service.
Flowable DMN Rule Service API
The DMN Rule Service API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for dmn rule service.
Flowable Document Definitions API
The Document Definitions API from Flowable — 4 operation(s) for document definitions.
Flowable Engine API
The Engine API from Flowable — 6 operation(s) for engine.
Flowable EngineProperties API
The EngineProperties API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for engineproperties.
Flowable Event subscriptions API
The Event subscriptions API from Flowable — 4 operation(s) for event subscriptions.
Flowable Executions API
The Executions API from Flowable — 10 operation(s) for executions.
Flowable Form Definitions API
The Form Definitions API from Flowable — 6 operation(s) for form definitions.
Flowable Form Deployments API
The Form Deployments API from Flowable — 3 operation(s) for form deployments.
Flowable Form Instance Models API
The Form Instance Models API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for form instance models.
Flowable Form Instances API
The Form Instances API from Flowable — 4 operation(s) for form instances.
Flowable Form Models API
The Form Models API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for form models.
Flowable Forms API
The Forms API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for forms.
Flowable Groups API
The Groups API from Flowable — 9 operation(s) for groups.
Flowable Historic Decision Executions API
The Historic Decision Executions API from Flowable — 3 operation(s) for historic decision executions.
Flowable History API
The History API from Flowable — 17 operation(s) for history.
Flowable History Case API
The History Case API from Flowable — 6 operation(s) for history case.
Flowable History Milestone API
The History Milestone API from Flowable — 3 operation(s) for history milestone.
Flowable History PlanItem API
The History PlanItem API from Flowable — 3 operation(s) for history planitem.
Flowable History Process API
The History Process API from Flowable — 8 operation(s) for history process.
Flowable History Task API
The History Task API from Flowable — 11 operation(s) for history task.
Flowable Info and Query API
The Info and Query API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for info and query.
Flowable Jobs API
The Jobs API from Flowable — 28 operation(s) for jobs.
Flowable Manage History Case Instances API
The Manage History Case Instances API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for manage history case instances.
Flowable Manage History Process Instances API
The Manage History Process Instances API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for manage history process instances.
Flowable Models API
The Models API from Flowable — 4 operation(s) for models.
Flowable Plan Item Instance Variables API
The Plan Item Instance Variables API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for plan item instance variables.
Flowable Plan Item Instances API
The Plan Item Instances API from Flowable — 7 operation(s) for plan item instances.
Flowable Privileges API
The Privileges API from Flowable — 6 operation(s) for privileges.
Flowable Process Definitions API
The Process Definitions API from Flowable — 13 operation(s) for process definitions.
Flowable Process Instance Identity Links API
The Process Instance Identity Links API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for process instance identity links.
Flowable Process Instance Variables API
The Process Instance Variables API from Flowable — 5 operation(s) for process instance variables.
Flowable Process Instances API
The Process Instances API from Flowable — 9 operation(s) for process instances.
Flowable Query API
The Query API from Flowable — 23 operation(s) for query.
Flowable Rendition item API
The Rendition item API from Flowable — 6 operation(s) for rendition item.
Flowable Runtime API
The Runtime API from Flowable — 5 operation(s) for runtime.
Flowable Task Attachments API
The Task Attachments API from Flowable — 3 operation(s) for task attachments.
Flowable Task Comments API
The Task Comments API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for task comments.
Flowable Task Identity Links API
The Task Identity Links API from Flowable — 6 operation(s) for task identity links.
Flowable Task Variables API
The Task Variables API from Flowable — 6 operation(s) for task variables.
Flowable Tasks API
The Tasks API from Flowable — 14 operation(s) for tasks.
Flowable Tenants API
The Tenants API from Flowable — 1 operation(s) for tenants.
Flowable Unacquire API
The Unacquire API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for unacquire.
Flowable User Admin API
The User Admin API from Flowable — 2 operation(s) for user admin.
Flowable User Definitions API
The User Definitions API from Flowable — 4 operation(s) for user definitions.
Flowable Users API
The Users API from Flowable — 20 operation(s) for users.
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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.
Flowable 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.
Flowable 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.
Flowable 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.
Flowable API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 7
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.
Flowable BPMN API Schemas
JSON SCHEMAFlowable CMMN API Schemas
JSON SCHEMAFlowable CONTENT API Schemas
JSON SCHEMAFlowable DMN API Schemas
JSON SCHEMAFlowable EXTERNAL-WORKER API Schemas
JSON SCHEMAFlowable FORM API Schemas
JSON SCHEMAFlowable IDM API Schemas
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Examples 5
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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.
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 Flowable — 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.
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
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 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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