IPFS
InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol and distributed content-addressed storage system. The Kubo implementation exposes an HTTP RPC API (/api/v0/) for adding, pinning, and retrieving content-addressed files, managing DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) nodes, key management, and network peer operations. The HTTP Gateway API provides read-only access to IPFS and IPNS content over standard HTTP. The Delegated Routing V1 HTTP API enables clients to discover content providers and resolve peer records without running a full DHT node.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles IPFS the way a machine reads it — 62 machine-readable artifacts across 40 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 — IPFS scores 40.0/100 (thin), 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.
How we profile IPFS
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for IPFS. 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 40
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.
IPFS HTTP Gateway API
The IPFS HTTP Gateway API is an implementation-agnostic interface for retrieving content-addressed data from IPFS over standard HTTP. Path gateways expose /ipfs/{cid} and /ipns/...
IPFS Delegated Routing V1 HTTP API
The Delegated Routing V1 HTTP API allows IPFS clients to offload content routing, peer routing, and IPNS resolution to a remote server without running a full DHT node. Endpoints...
IPFS Add API
The Add API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for add.
IPFS Bitswap API
The Bitswap API from IPFS — 4 operation(s) for bitswap.
IPFS Block API
The Block API from IPFS — 4 operation(s) for block.
IPFS Bootstrap API
The Bootstrap API from IPFS — 6 operation(s) for bootstrap.
IPFS Cat API
The Cat API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for cat.
IPFS Cid API
The Cid API from IPFS — 5 operation(s) for cid.
IPFS Commands API
The Commands API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for commands.
IPFS Config API
The Config API from IPFS — 4 operation(s) for config.
IPFS Dag API
The Dag API from IPFS — 6 operation(s) for dag.
IPFS Dht API
The Dht API from IPFS — 6 operation(s) for dht.
IPFS Diag API
The Diag API from IPFS — 5 operation(s) for diag.
IPFS Dns API
The Dns API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for dns.
IPFS File API
The File API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for file.
IPFS Files API
The Files API from IPFS — 10 operation(s) for files.
IPFS Filestore API
The Filestore API from IPFS — 3 operation(s) for filestore.
IPFS Get API
The Get API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for get.
IPFS Id API
The Id API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for id.
IPFS Key API
The Key API from IPFS — 5 operation(s) for key.
IPFS Log API
The Log API from IPFS — 3 operation(s) for log.
IPFS Ls API
The Ls API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for ls.
IPFS Mount API
The Mount API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for mount.
IPFS Multibase API
The Multibase API from IPFS — 4 operation(s) for multibase.
IPFS Name API
The Name API from IPFS — 6 operation(s) for name.
IPFS Object API
The Object API from IPFS — 11 operation(s) for object.
IPFS P2p API
The P2p API from IPFS — 6 operation(s) for p2p.
IPFS Pin API
The Pin API from IPFS — 11 operation(s) for pin.
IPFS Ping API
The Ping API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for ping.
IPFS pins API
The pins API from IPFS — 2 operation(s) for pins.
IPFS Pubsub API
The Pubsub API from IPFS — 4 operation(s) for pubsub.
IPFS Refs API
The Refs API from IPFS — 2 operation(s) for refs.
IPFS Repo API
The Repo API from IPFS — 5 operation(s) for repo.
IPFS Resolve API
The Resolve API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for resolve.
IPFS Routing API
The Routing API from IPFS — 5 operation(s) for routing.
IPFS Shutdown API
The Shutdown API from IPFS — 1 operation(s) for shutdown.
IPFS Stats API
The Stats API from IPFS — 5 operation(s) for stats.
IPFS Swarm API
The Swarm API from IPFS — 13 operation(s) for swarm.
IPFS Tar API
The Tar API from IPFS — 2 operation(s) for tar.
IPFS Version API
The Version API from IPFS — 2 operation(s) for version.
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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.
Plans
PLANSRate 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.
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.
Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 2
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.
Ipfs Context
JSON-LDIpfs Provider Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
IPFS API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 11
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.
Delegates
JSON SCHEMAFailure
JSON SCHEMAKubo Rpc Responses
JSON SCHEMAOrigins
JSON SCHEMAPin
JSON SCHEMAPinMeta
JSON SCHEMAPinResults
JSON SCHEMAPinStatus
JSON SCHEMAStatus
JSON SCHEMAStatusInfo
JSON SCHEMATextMatchingStrategy
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 11 ·
Examples 2
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.
Ipfs Kubo Rpc Examples
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 IPFS — 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.
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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