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Gitpod

Gitpod is a cloud development environment platform that provides on-demand, ephemeral workspaces spun up from git repositories, enabling developers to write, review, and ship code from any device without local setup. Originally focused on browser-based IDEs, the platform evolved into Gitpod Flex, offering REST APIs and SDKs for workspace lifecycle management, environment automation, and organization administration. The Gitpod API supports TypeScript, Python, and Go SDKs and uses bearer token authentication via API keys. In September 2025 Gitpod rebranded to Ona, shifting focus to AI software engineering agents built on top of its secure, isolated environment infrastructure.

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 Gitpod the way a machine reads it — 52 machine-readable artifacts across 34 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 — Gitpod scores 56.6/100 (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 — 56.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.5 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 Gitpod

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Gitpod. 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 34

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.

Gitpod Organizations API

REST API for managing organizations, groups, members, role assignments, permissions, and organization-level policies. Supports SSO login providers, secrets scoped to organizatio...

Gitpod Projects API

REST API for managing projects and repositories within a Gitpod organization. Supports creating and listing projects, associating repositories, and configuring project-level pol...

Gitpod Accounts and Billing API

REST API for managing user accounts, SSO login sessions, and billing information including invoices and spending data. Supports listing joinable organizations, deleting accounts...

Gitpod gitpod.v1.AccountService API

The gitpod.v1.AccountService API from Gitpod — 10 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.accountservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.AgentSecurityService API

AgentSecurityService receives agent security events from runners. Authenticated with runner tokens (same as RunnerInteractionService).

Gitpod gitpod.v1.AgentService API

The gitpod.v1.AgentService API from Gitpod — 25 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.agentservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.BillingService API

BillingService provides billing and subscription management functionality.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.EditorService API

The gitpod.v1.EditorService API from Gitpod — 3 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.editorservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.EnvironmentAutomationService API

The gitpod.v1.EnvironmentAutomationService API from Gitpod — 18 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.environmentautomationservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.EnvironmentService API

The gitpod.v1.EnvironmentService API from Gitpod — 15 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.environmentservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.ErrorsService API

ErrorsService provides endpoints for clients to report errors that will be sent to error reporting systems.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.EventService API

The gitpod.v1.EventService API from Gitpod — 2 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.eventservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.GatewayService API

The gitpod.v1.GatewayService API from Gitpod — 1 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.gatewayservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.GroupService API

The gitpod.v1.GroupService API from Gitpod — 14 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.groupservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.IdentityService API

The gitpod.v1.IdentityService API from Gitpod — 3 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.identityservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.InsightsService API

InsightsService provides AI code attribution analytics for projects. The CLI reports per-commit co-author data from git history, and the dashboard reads aggregated stats.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.IntegrationService API

The gitpod.v1.IntegrationService API from Gitpod — 11 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.integrationservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.NotificationService API

NotificationService manages in-app notifications for users.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.OnaIntelligenceService API

OnaIntelligenceService manages organization-level LLM configurations for Ona Intelligence. This service is restricted to Ona employees with the OnaIntelligenceAdmin role.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.OrganizationService API

The gitpod.v1.OrganizationService API from Gitpod — 39 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.organizationservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.PrebuildService API

PrebuildService manages prebuilds for projects to enable faster environment startup times. Prebuilds create snapshots of environments that can be used to provision new environme...

Gitpod gitpod.v1.ProjectService API

The gitpod.v1.ProjectService API from Gitpod — 15 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.projectservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.RunnerConfigurationService API

The gitpod.v1.RunnerConfigurationService API from Gitpod — 21 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.runnerconfigurationservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.RunnerInteractionService API

RunnerInteractionService provides a way for the backend to interact with environment runners.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.RunnerManagerService API

The gitpod.v1.RunnerManagerService API from Gitpod — 6 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.runnermanagerservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.RunnerService API

The gitpod.v1.RunnerService API from Gitpod — 16 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.runnerservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.SecretService API

The gitpod.v1.SecretService API from Gitpod — 5 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.secretservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.ServiceAccountService API

The gitpod.v1.ServiceAccountService API from Gitpod — 10 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.serviceaccountservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.SessionService API

The gitpod.v1.SessionService API from Gitpod — 9 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.sessionservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.TeamService API

TeamService manages teams and team memberships within an organization. A team is an organizational unit that users can belong to. Each user can belong to at most one team per or...

Gitpod gitpod.v1.UsageService API

UsageService provides usage information about environments, users, and projects.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.UserService API

The gitpod.v1.UserService API from Gitpod — 14 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.userservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.WebhookService API

The gitpod.v1.WebhookService API from Gitpod — 8 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.webhookservice.

Gitpod gitpod.v1.WorkflowService API

The gitpod.v1.WorkflowService API from Gitpod — 16 operation(s) for gitpod.v1.workflowservice.

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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.

Gitpod Plans Pricing

2 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.

Gitpod Rate Limits

1 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.

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.

Gitpod Context

42 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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.

Gitpod API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

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.

Account

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Environment

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Project

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Gitpod Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Gitpod Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Gitpod Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

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.

Gitpod Agentic Access

388 operations · 388 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop

388 operations · 388 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Gitpod — 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 1

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

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 4

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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