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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.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 40.0/100 · thin
Contract Quality 11.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 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 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

4 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.

Rate Limits

0 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.

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic 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

30 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Ipfs Provider Context

0 classes · 0 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.

IPFS API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Failure

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kubo Rpc Responses

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Origins

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pin

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PinMeta

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PinResults

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PinStatus

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Status

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StatusInfo

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TextMatchingStrategy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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.

Security 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.

Ipfs Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Ipfs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

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.

Ipfs Agentic Access

154 operations · 152 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

154 operations · 152 acting

AGENTIC

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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