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Nextcloud

Nextcloud is an open-source, self-hosted productivity platform offering file sync and share, collaboration, communication (Talk, Mail, Calendar, Contacts), and office (Nextcloud Office) features as a privacy-focused alternative to public cloud suites. Hosted in private datacenters or on-premises, Nextcloud is widely used by enterprises, governments, and individuals. The Nextcloud APIs include OCS REST APIs, WebDAV for file/folder operations, CalDAV/CardDAV, and an OpenAPI-described developer surface for apps and integrations.

agent aware

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 Nextcloud the way a machine reads it — 12 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — Nextcloud scores 32.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (agent aware). 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 — 32.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 3.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent aware
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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Nextcloud

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Nextcloud. 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 6

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.

Nextcloud OCS API

Open Collaboration Services REST API for managing shares, users, groups, capabilities, status, notifications, activities, and other Nextcloud server resources. Uses Basic Auth, ...

Nextcloud WebDAV API

WebDAV interface for files, folders, chunked uploads, trashbin, versions, comments, and search on a Nextcloud server. Provides the primary file-sync protocol used by Nextcloud d...

Nextcloud Autocomplete API

The Autocomplete API from Nextcloud — 1 operation(s) for autocomplete.

Nextcloud Capabilities API

The Capabilities API from Nextcloud — 1 operation(s) for capabilities.

Nextcloud DAV API

The DAV API from Nextcloud — 1 operation(s) for dav.

Nextcloud Users API

The Users API from Nextcloud — 2 operation(s) for users.

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).

Nextcloud OCS API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Nextcloud Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Nextcloud Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Nextcloud Trust Center

ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, 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.

Nextcloud Agentic Access

5 operations · 1 acting

5 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Nextcloud — 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 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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