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Inngest

Inngest is an event-driven durable execution platform for background jobs, step functions, scheduled workflows, and AI agent orchestration. It exposes a v1 event ingestion and run inspection API, a v2 management API (accounts, environments, apps, webhooks, keys, function invocation, runs, traces), official SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Go, and Kotlin, AgentKit for multi-agent systems, Connect for persistent worker connections, Realtime streaming, Signals, Durable Endpoints, Insights (SQL over events and runs), and a heavily-marketed local Dev Server CLI.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Inngest the way a machine reads it — 36 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — Inngest scores 79.1/100 (exemplar), 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 — 79.1/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 17.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 18.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 10.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 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 Inngest

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Inngest. 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 8

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.

Inngest Account API

Account-level details for the authenticated user.

Inngest Apps API

Sync app endpoints exposing Inngest functions.

Inngest Environments API

Manage production and branch environments for an account.

Inngest Events API

Send and inspect events that trigger Inngest functions.

Inngest Functions API

List and invoke deployed Inngest functions.

Inngest Keys API

Manage event keys and signing keys per environment.

Inngest Runs API

Fetch the status, jobs, and trace trees of function runs.

Inngest Webhooks API

Manage inbound webhooks that translate third-party payloads into Inngest events.

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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).

Inngest REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Inngest 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.

Inngest 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.

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.

Inngest Context

17 classes · 32 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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.

Inngest API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Inngest API Rules

0 rules

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

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.

InngestEnvironment

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InngestEvent

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InngestFunction

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InngestRun

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InngestTraceSpan

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InngestWebhook

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

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.

Inngest Event Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Inngest Run Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Inngest Trace Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 7

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.

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Security 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.

Inngest Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Inngest Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Inngest Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Inngest Trust Center

SOC 2

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.

Inngest Agentic Access

22 operations · 8 acting

22 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Inngest — 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 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Operate 7

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

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Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/inngest · machine-readable index on apis.io