GitHub

The GitHub REST API allows developers to programmatically interact with GitHub resources including repositories, users, organizations, pull requests, issues, and more.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

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API Evangelist profiles GitHub the way a machine reads it — 1280 machine-readable artifacts across 38 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 — GitHub scores 65.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 46/100 (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.

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Composite quality — 65.4/100 · strong

Contract Quality 18.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 16.0 / 20

Access Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13

Contract Governance 1.6 / 12

Discoverability 4.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 46/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract derived 2.5 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6.0 / 6

MCP Server documented 4.8 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth bearer 3.5 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8.0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7.0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7.0 / 7

Typed Event Surface derived 1.5 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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How we profile GitHub

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for GitHub. 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 62

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.

GitHub Gists API

The GitHub Gists API lets you programmatically manage gistslightweight code snippets and notesover HTTP. You can create gists (public or secret/unlisted), read individual gists,...

GitHub Issues API

The GitHub Issues API lets you programmatically manage issue tracking on GitHub, enabling you to list and filter issues across repositories, create and edit issues, change their...

GitHub Licenses API

The GitHub Licenses API lets you programmatically discover and retrieve open source license information across GitHub. It provides endpoints to list the common licenses GitHub s...

GitHub Markdown API

The GitHub Markdown API is a REST service that converts Markdownespecially GitHub Flavored Markdowninto the same HTML GitHub renders in READMEs, issues, and pull requests, so ex...

GitHub Meta API

Use the REST API to get meta information about GitHub, including the IP addresses of GitHub services.

GitHub Projects API

The GitHub Projects API enables developers to programmatically create and manage GitHub Projects, which are flexible tools for planning and tracking work using customizable boar...

GitHub Repos API

The GitHub Repos API is a set of REST endpoints that let you programmatically create, read, update, and delete repositories and their resources, giving you control over a repos ...

GitHub Search API

The GitHub Search API lets you programmatically find and filter content across GitHubincluding repositories, code, issues and pull requests, commits, users, topics, and labelsus...

GitHub User API

The GitHub Users API (part of the REST API) lets applications read and, for the authenticated account, manage user-related data on GitHub. It can fetch public profiles for any u...

GitHub Checks API

The GitHub Checks API lets you create and manage check runs and check suites that report detailed status, annotations, and results for commits. It enables CI/CD tools and integr...

GitHub Deployments API

The GitHub Deployments API lets you create and manage deployments and deployment statuses for repositories. Deployments are requests to deploy a specific ref (branch, SHA, tag) ...

GitHub Releases API

The GitHub Releases API lets you create, edit, and delete releases for a repository, as well as upload and manage release assets (binaries, installers, archives). Releases are b...

GitHub Pages API

The GitHub Pages API lets you manage GitHub Pages sites for repositories, including creating, updating, and deleting sites, configuring custom domains and HTTPS enforcement, and...

GitHub Packages API

The GitHub Packages API lets you manage packages and package versions in GitHub Packages, a software package hosting service that supports npm, Maven, Gradle, RubyGems, NuGet, D...

GitHub Git Database API

The GitHub Git Database API provides low-level access to Git objects (blobs, commits, refs, tags, and trees) in a repository. It lets you read and write raw Git data directly, e...

GitHub Codespaces API

The GitHub Codespaces API lets you create, manage, start, stop, and delete cloud development environments (codespaces) for repositories. It provides endpoints for managing codes...

GitHub Copilot API

The GitHub Copilot API lets organization and enterprise owners manage GitHub Copilot seat assignments, retrieve usage metrics and billing information, and configure Copilot poli...

GitHub Billing API

The GitHub Billing API lets you view billing and usage information for organizations and enterprises, including Actions minutes, Packages storage and data transfer, Codespaces u...

GitHub Migrations API

The GitHub Migrations API lets you migrate data to and from GitHub. It supports organization migrations that export repositories and metadata as downloadable archives, source im...

GitHub Secret Scanning API

The GitHub Secret Scanning API lets you retrieve and manage secret scanning alerts for repositories, organizations, and enterprises. Secret scanning detects tokens, keys, and ot...

GitHub Security Advisories API

The GitHub Security Advisories API lets you view and manage security advisories for repositories and access the GitHub Advisory Database. It provides endpoints to create, update...

GitHub Commits API

The GitHub Commits API lets you list, retrieve, and compare commits in a repository, as well as manage commit comments and commit statuses. It provides endpoints for viewing com...

GitHub Reactions API

The GitHub Reactions API lets you create, list, and delete emoji reactions on issues, pull requests, issue comments, pull request review comments, commit comments, release asset...

GitHub Deploy Keys API

The GitHub Deploy Keys API lets you manage deploy keys for repositories. Deploy keys are SSH keys that grant read-only or read-write access to a single repository, commonly used...

GitHub Dependency Graph API

The GitHub Dependency Graph API lets you view and submit dependency information for a repository. It provides endpoints to export the software bill of materials (SBOM) for a rep...

GitHub Metrics API

The GitHub Metrics API lets you access community profile and repository statistics, including contributor activity, commit frequency, code frequency, participation data, punch c...

GitHub Interactions API

The GitHub Interactions API lets you temporarily restrict which users can comment, open issues, or create pull requests in public repositories. It supports setting interaction l...

GitHub Models API

The GitHub Models API provides access to the GitHub Models catalog, letting you list and retrieve details about AI models available on the GitHub platform. It supports browsing ...

GitHub GraphQL API

The GitHub GraphQL API provides a flexible query language for accessing GitHub data, allowing clients to request exactly the fields they need in a single request. It supports qu...

GitHub Campaigns API

The GitHub Campaigns API lets organization owners and security managers create and manage security campaigns that coordinate remediation of code scanning alerts across multiple ...

GitHub Classroom API

The GitHub Classroom API lets you programmatically interact with GitHub Classroom, providing endpoints to list classrooms, get classroom details, list assignments for a classroo...

GitHub Code Security API

The GitHub Code Security API lets organizations and enterprises create and manage reusable code security configurations that standardize security settings across repositories. I...

GitHub Credentials API

The GitHub Credentials API lets you programmatically manage authentication credentials, providing endpoints to revoke a list of credentials such as tokens and keys for security ...

GitHub Enterprise Teams API

The GitHub Enterprise Teams API lets enterprise owners create and manage enterprise-level teams. It provides endpoints to list, create, get, update, and delete teams, manage tea...

GitHub Private Registries API

The GitHub Private Registries API lets organizations configure and manage private package registries. It provides endpoints to list, create, get, update, and delete private regi...

GitHub Starring API

The GitHub Starring API lets you bookmark repositories and manage your starred list. It provides endpoints to list stargazers for a repository, list repositories starred by the ...

GitHub Watching API

The GitHub Watching API lets you subscribe to notifications for activity in a repository. It provides endpoints to list watchers of a repository, get and set a repository subscr...

GitHub Actions API

Endpoints to manage GitHub Actions using the REST API.

GitHub Activity API

The Activity API from GitHub — 25 operation(s) for activity.

GitHub Apps API

The Apps API from GitHub — 23 operation(s) for apps.

GitHub Billing API

Monitor charges and usage from Actions and Packages.

GitHub Checks API

The Checks API from GitHub — 28 operation(s) for checks.

GitHub Code-Scanning API

Retrieve code scanning alerts from a repository.

GitHub Codes-Of-Conduct API

The Codes-Of-Conduct API from GitHub — 2 operation(s) for codes-of-conduct.

GitHub Dependabot API

Endpoints to manage Dependabot.

GitHub Dependency-Graph API

Endpoints to access Dependency Graph features.

GitHub Emojis API

The Emojis API from GitHub — 1 operation(s) for emojis.

GitHub Enterprise-Admin API

Enterprise Administration

GitHub Enterprise-Admin - Scim API

The Enterprise-Admin - Scim API from GitHub — 1 operation(s) for enterprise-admin - scim.

GitHub Git API

Raw Git functionality.

GitHub Gitignore API

The Gitignore API from GitHub — 2 operation(s) for gitignore.

GitHub Migrations API

Move projects to or from GitHub.

GitHub Oauth-Authorizations API

OAuth Authorizations API

GitHub Oidc API

The Oidc API from GitHub — 1 operation(s) for oidc.

GitHub Orgs API

The Orgs API from GitHub — 30 operation(s) for orgs.

GitHub Packages API

Manage packages for authenticated users and organizations.

GitHub Pulls API

Interact with GitHub Pull Requests.

GitHub Rate-Limit API

Check your current rate limit status

GitHub Reactions API

The Reactions API from GitHub — 16 operation(s) for reactions.

GitHub Secret-Scanning API

Retrieve secret scanning alerts from a repository.

GitHub Teams API

Interact with GitHub Teams.

GitHub GitHub V3 REST API API

The GitHub V3 REST API API from GitHub — 0 operation(s) for github v3 rest api.

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Postman Collections 23

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Open Collections 359

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.

GitHub Verify a Branch and Merge It

Confirm a head branch exists, then merge it into a base branch.

ARAZZO

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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.

MCP Server

GitHub's official MCP server connects AI tools to repositories, issues, pull requests, Actions, and code security; remote OAuth endpoint plus a local Docker image, with modular ...

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

GitHub GraphQL API

The GitHub GraphQL API provides a flexible query language for accessing GitHub data, allowing clients to request exactly the fields they need in a single request. It supports qu...

GRAPHQL

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 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.

Github Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Github Rate Limits

8 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.

Github Finops

FINOPS

Features 15

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

REST API and GraphQL API for repositories, issues, PRs, releases, and Actions

GitHub Apps with up to 15,000 requests/hour on Enterprise Cloud

OAuth App authorization and fine-grained personal access tokens

GitHub Actions workflow execution with self-hosted and GitHub-hosted runners

GitHub Packages container, npm, Maven, NuGet, RubyGems, and Gradle registries

GitHub Codespaces cloud development environments

GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer (separate per-seat licensing)

Audit log API and webhook event delivery

Branch protection, required reviewers, code owners, environments

Secondary rate limits: 100 concurrent / 900 points-per-minute / 80 content-generating-per-minute

Git LFS API at 3,000 requests/minute (authenticated)

Conditional requests with ETag/If-None-Match return 304 without consuming rate limit

OIDC token exchange for cloud provider federation

SAML SSO, SCIM, and SSH certificate authority on Enterprise Cloud

GitHub Marketplace for app distribution and billing

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

GitHub Webhooks

GitHub Webhooks deliver HTTP POST payloads to a configured URL whenever specified events occur on GitHub, such as pushes, pull requests, issues, releases, and more. Webhooks can...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic 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.

Github Context

85 classes · 451 properties

JSON-LD

14 properties

Github Webhook Delivery Example

10 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 1

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.

Github Authentication

http · 1 scheme

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.

Github Agentic Access

2431 operations · 1203 acting · 31 human-in-the-loop

2431 operations · 1203 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 8

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

CI/CD Automation

Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions API.

Repository Management

Programmatically create, configure, and manage repositories and branches.

Issue and Project Tracking

Create, update, and query issues, labels, milestones, and project boards.

Code Review Automation

Automate pull request reviews, checks, and merge workflows.

Security Scanning

Access Dependabot alerts, code scanning results, and secret scanning alerts.

Developer Tools

Build GitHub Apps, CLI extensions, and IDE integrations.

Organization Management

Manage teams, members, permissions, and audit logs for organizations.

Package Publishing

Publish and manage packages across multiple package registries.

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Solutions 4

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

GitHub Free

Free tier with unlimited public and private repos, Actions minutes, and Packages storage.

GitHub Pro

Advanced tools for individual developers with more Actions minutes and Packages.

GitHub Team

Collaboration features for teams with code owners, required reviews, and Pages.

GitHub Enterprise

Enterprise features with SAML SSO, audit log streaming, and advanced security.

Resources

Every other property we hold for GitHub — 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 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Signup

Signup

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 9

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

OpenAPI

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

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Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

AgentSkills

LlmsText

Design & Contract 25

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Pagination

Versioning

ErrorCodes

Webhooks

JSONLD

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Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

CLI

CLI

GitHubOrganization

SDKs

DeveloperTools

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Security

Security

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 7

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RoadMap

StatusPage

Support

RateLimits

ChangeLog

Community

StackOverflow

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Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

About

Partners

Blog

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

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