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NuGet

NuGet is the package manager for .NET, providing a centralized repository for developers to discover, share, and consume reusable code libraries. The NuGet developer platform exposes a set of HTTP APIs that enable programmatic access to package search, metadata retrieval, content download, catalog browsing, and package publishing against the nuget.org feed.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles NuGet the way a machine reads it — 52 machine-readable artifacts across 7 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 — NuGet scores 55.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 60/100 (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 — 55.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 60/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 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 NuGet

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for NuGet. 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 7

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.

NuGet Catalog API

The NuGet Catalog API is an append-only resource that records the full history of all package events on nuget.org, including packages being added, modified, listed, unlisted, an...

NuGet Search API

The NuGet Search API allows clients to query for packages available on a NuGet package source using the SearchQueryService resource found in the service index. It supports filte...

NuGet Package Content API

The NuGet Package Content API, accessed through the PackageBaseAddress resource, allows clients to download package content files (.nupkg) and package manifests (.nuspec) from a...

NuGet Autocomplete API

Autocomplete package IDs and enumerate package versions for typeahead and discovery features.

NuGet Package Publish API

Endpoints for pushing new packages, deleting or unlisting packages, and relisting previously unlisted packages on a NuGet feed.

NuGet Registration API

Package registration endpoints for fetching metadata about packages, organized into an index, pages, and leaves hierarchy.

NuGet Service Index API

The service index is the entry point for the NuGet V3 API. It is a JSON document that lists all available resources and their capabilities.

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Open Collections 5

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).

NuGet Catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

NuGet Package Content API

OPEN COLLECTION

NuGet Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

NuGet Server API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

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.

Nuget Plans Pricing

1 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.

Nuget Rate Limits

2 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.

Nuget Finops

FINOPS

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.

Nuget Context

0 classes · 8 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.

NuGet API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 29

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.

AlternatePackage

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutocompleteResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NuGet Catalog Event

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogEntry

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogIndex

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogItemReference

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogPackageType

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogPage

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogPageReference

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dependency

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DependencyGroup

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deprecation

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NuGet Package

32 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PackageDeleteLeaf

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PackageDetailsLeaf

30 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PackageType

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RegistrationIndex

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RegistrationLeaf

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RegistrationLeafDocument

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RegistrationPage

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RegistrationPageEntry

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResult

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResultVersion

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceIndex

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceIndexResource

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VersionEnumerationResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VersionIndex

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vulnerability

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

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.

Nuget Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 3

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.

Nuget Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Nuget Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Nuget Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

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.

Nuget Agentic Access

16 operations · 3 acting

16 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for NuGet — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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