Forward Networks
Forward Networks builds network digital-twin software (Forward Enterprise) that creates a mathematically accurate, vendor-agnostic model of large hybrid and multi-cloud networks. Networking, security, cloud, and compliance teams use it to verify network behavior before and after changes, trace packet paths, run automated policy checks, analyze CVE/vulnerability exposure, and query the network as structured data through the Network Query Engine (NQE). The Forward Enterprise Complete API is an OpenAPI 3.2.0 surface of 189 operations across 108 paths — covering Networks, Snapshots, Checks, Path Search, NQE, Vulnerability Analysis, and system administration — secured with HTTP Basic authentication and complemented by a Go client, a Terraform provider, and an open-source MCP server.
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 Forward Networks the way a machine reads it — 47 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Forward Networks scores 41.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 32/100 (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 Forward Networks
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Forward Networks. 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.
Forward Networks Aliases API
Define groups of network infrastructure elements or packet header values
Forward Networks Checks API
Enable or define automated checks that verify network policy and behavior
Forward Networks Classic Devices API
Specify the network devices to collect from and model
Forward Networks Credentials API
Provide network device credentials needed for network collection
Forward Networks Current Version API
Get current API version information
Forward Networks Device Tags API
List or manage tags associated with network devices and endpoints
Forward Networks Jump Servers API
Configure jump servers to assist in reaching network devices
Forward Networks Network Collection API
Configure configuration and state collection from network devices
Forward Networks Network Devices API
List the modeled network devices
Forward Networks Network Endpoints API
Configure network endpoint profiles and specify the network endpoints to collect from
Forward Networks Network Locations API
Get, create, update, or delete a network's user-defined locations
Forward Networks Network Snapshots API
List or manage the network Snapshots collected from network devices
Forward Networks Network Topology API
List the links inferred between network devices and override them if necessary
Forward Networks Networks API
Create, list, rename, or delete model networks
Forward Networks NQE API
Ask the Network Query Engine for structured, vendor-agnostic network information
Forward Networks Path Search API
Trace packets through the network model
Forward Networks Synthetic Devices API
Model a network’s internet connections, intranets, L2VPNs, L3VPNs, WAN circuits, and encryptors
Forward Networks System Administration API
Administer the system, including database backups
Forward Networks User Accounts API
Manage user accounts
Forward Networks Vulnerability Analysis API
Identify network devices potentially impacted by CVEs
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Open Collections 21
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Checks API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Classic Devices API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Credentials API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Current Version API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Device Tags API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Jump Servers API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Network Collection API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Network Devices API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Network Endpoints API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Network Locations API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Network Snapshots API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Network Topology API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward : Complete Aliases Networks API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases NQE API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Path Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases Synthetic Devices API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases System Administration API
OPEN COLLECTIONForward Networks: Complete Aliases User Accounts API
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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.
Forward Networks MCP Server
Open-source MCP server (Go, stdio transport) published in the Forward Networks GitHub org. Exposes 54 tools plus 6 workflow prompts and a network-context resource, validated aga...
MCP SERVERSecurity Posture 4
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 Forward Networks — 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 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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