Golioth
Golioth is an IoT device management cloud and firmware SDK for connected hardware. The platform pairs an open-source Firmware SDK (Zephyr RTOS, nRF Connect SDK, ESP-IDF, ModusToolbox, Linux) with a REST Management API at api.golioth.io, a web console, and services for OTA firmware updates, device settings, remote procedure calls (RPC), structured time-series data (LightDB Stream), key/value device state (LightDB State), logs, location, and a Pipelines data-routing engine that forwards device data to downstream cloud services. Authentication to the Management API is via project-scoped API keys passed in the x-api-key header.
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 Golioth the way a machine reads it — 65 machine-readable artifacts across 45 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 — Golioth scores 47.3/100 (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 Golioth
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Golioth. 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 45
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.
Golioth LightDB State
Per-device key/value state store. Devices and cloud services read and write structured state (JSON/CBOR) that is synchronized between device and cloud over CoAP.
Golioth LightDB Stream
Time-series ingest endpoint for streaming sensor and telemetry data from devices. Stored data can be queried and routed downstream via Pipelines.
Golioth Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Bidirectional remote-procedure-call service. The cloud invokes device-side methods registered by firmware and receives the response, enabling on-demand diagnostics and control.
Golioth OTA Firmware Updates
Over-the-air firmware update service. Upload artifacts, group them into releases, target devices by tag or blueprint, and roll out updates with progress tracking and rollback.
Golioth Device Settings
Cloud-managed settings pushed to one device, a group, or an entire fleet. Firmware subscribes to settings keys and receives updates without requiring a firmware release.
Golioth Logging
Centralized device logging. Firmware emits structured log lines that are collected, indexed, and made queryable via the console and API.
Golioth Pipelines
Data routing and transformation engine. Pipelines describe how data arriving from devices is filtered, transformed, and forwarded to downstream destinations such as AWS S3, GCP ...
Golioth Location
Location service that resolves device position from cellular tower and Wi-Fi access-point observations submitted by firmware, returning latitude/longitude back to the device or ...
Golioth Firmware SDK
Open-source firmware SDK that connects embedded devices to the Golioth cloud over CoAP. Supports Zephyr RTOS, nRF Connect SDK, ESP-IDF, and ModusToolbox. Implements client APIs ...
Golioth Python Tools
Python tooling that wraps the Management API for scripting, automation, and CLI-driven workflows against Golioth projects.
Golioth tinymcp
Open-source implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for resource-constrained embedded devices, enabling large language models to observe and control firmware via MCP ...
Golioth Pouch
Non-IP device-to-cloud transport protocol from Golioth, with a companion Bluetooth gateway reference implementation (pouch-gateway) for relaying pouch traffic to the Golioth cloud.
Golioth Access API
The Access API from Golioth — 6 operation(s) for access.
Golioth API Keys API
The API Keys API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for api keys.
Golioth Artifacts API
The Artifacts API from Golioth — 3 operation(s) for artifacts.
Golioth Billing API
The Billing API from Golioth — 1 operation(s) for billing.
Golioth Blueprints API
The Blueprints API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for blueprints.
Golioth Boards API
The Boards API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for boards.
Golioth Certificates API
The Certificates API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for certificates.
Golioth Cohorts API
The Cohorts API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for cohorts.
Golioth Credentials API
The Credentials API from Golioth — 4 operation(s) for credentials.
Golioth Deployments API
The Deployments API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for deployments.
Golioth Devices API
The Devices API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for devices.
Golioth Firmware API
The Firmware API from Golioth — 1 operation(s) for firmware.
Golioth Integrations API
The Integrations API from Golioth — 5 operation(s) for integrations.
Golioth LightDB API
The LightDB API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for lightdb.
Golioth LightDB Stream API
The LightDB Stream API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for lightdb stream.
Golioth Location API
The Location API from Golioth — 1 operation(s) for location.
Golioth Logs API
The Logs API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for logs.
Golioth Networks API
The Networks API from Golioth — 4 operation(s) for networks.
Golioth Notifications API
The Notifications API from Golioth — 1 operation(s) for notifications.
Golioth Organizations API
The Organizations API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for organizations.
Golioth OTAEvents API
The OTAEvents API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for otaevents.
Golioth Packages API
The Packages API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for packages.
Golioth Pipelines API
The Pipelines API from Golioth — 5 operation(s) for pipelines.
Golioth PKI API
The PKI API from Golioth — 5 operation(s) for pki.
Golioth Project Config API
The Project Config API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for project config.
Golioth Projects API
The Projects API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for projects.
Golioth Provisioning API
The Provisioning API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for provisioning.
Golioth Releases API
The Releases API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for releases.
Golioth Remote Procedure Call API
The Remote Procedure Call API from Golioth — 1 operation(s) for remote procedure call.
Golioth Secrets API
The Secrets API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for secrets.
Golioth Settings API
The Settings API from Golioth — 4 operation(s) for settings.
Golioth Tags API
The Tags API from Golioth — 2 operation(s) for tags.
Golioth Usage API
The Usage API from Golioth — 5 operation(s) for usage.
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Open Collections 1
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).
Golioth Management API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Golioth 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.
Golioth 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.
Golioth Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
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.
Golioth API Rules
SPECTRALGolioth API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
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.
JSON Structure 2
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Golioth Device Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGolioth Release Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
Golioth Invoke Rpc Example
EXAMPLEGolioth Query Stream Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
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 Golioth — 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 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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