OSF
OSF (Open Science Framework) is a free, open-source platform that supports the entire research lifecycle, enabling collaboration, data sharing, and reproducible workflows. Researchers can register projects, collect data, manage materials, and publish results, all while integrating with tools like Dropbox, GitHub, and more. The platform emphasizes openness, inclusivity, and long-term preservation of scholarly outputs.
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.
API Evangelist profiles OSF the way a machine reads it — 43 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — OSF scores 42.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile OSF
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OSF. 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 41
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.
OSF API
Open Science Framework API v2 provides programmatic access to projects, registrations, files, and other research resources.
OSF Actions API
Actions represent state transitions or comments performed on reviewable or request-related resources within the OSF platform, such as Preprints, Nodes, Preprint Requests, Node R...
OSF Applications API
**OAuth2 Applications** allow external services to securely authenticate and interact with OSF resources via OAuth2. Registered applications manage OAuth2 flows, client credenti...
OSF Base API
This is the "home page" of the API you can get important autentication information for the user making the request and get links to other resources.
OSF CEDAR Metadata API
CEDAR Metadata endpoints allow you to create, read, update, and manage metadata records based on CEDAR templates. These templates enable users to apply structured, standardized ...
OSF Citations API
The Citations API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for citations.
OSF Collection Providers API
A Collection Submissions Provider represents the data for moderators and admins for a group of collections. It acts as a central hub for managing all collection submissions with...
OSF Collection Submission Actions API
The Collection Submission Actions API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for collection submission actions.
OSF Collection Submissions API
A Collection Submission is an object that allows a user to add a resource, either a project, preprint, or registration to a collection. Once created, a Collection Submission may...
OSF Collections API
The Collections API from OSF — 11 operation(s) for collections.
OSF Comments API
The Comments API from OSF — 1 operation(s) for comments.
OSF Contributors API
The Contributors API from OSF — 1 operation(s) for contributors.
OSF Custom Metadata API
Custom Metadata endpoints allow users to manage freeform or structured metadata associated with OSF nodes and files. Unlike CEDAR metadata, Custom Metadata provides more flexibl...
OSF Draft Registrations API
A Draft Registration is a object that allows a user to edit and revise a registration before it is registered. Draft Registrations allow contributors to coordinate on a single r...
OSF Files API
The Files API from OSF — 5 operation(s) for files.
OSF GUIDs API
The GUIDs API from OSF — 1 operation(s) for guids.
OSF Identifiers API
Identifiers are unique strings associated with various entities in the OSF system, such as project nodes, registrations or preprints. Identifiers serve as a means to distinctly ...
OSF Institutions API
The Institutions API from OSF — 8 operation(s) for institutions.
OSF Licenses API
The Licenses API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for licenses.
OSF Logs API
The Logs API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for logs.
OSF Nodes API
The Nodes API from OSF — 37 operation(s) for nodes.
OSF Notification Subscriptions API
**Notification Subscriptions** allow users to manage how they receive alerts about activities and events related to OSF resources, such as projects, preprints, registrations, an...
OSF OAuth Scopes API
OAuth scopes define specific permissions for OAuth applications and personal access tokens. Each scope indicates the permission level granted to perform actions via the OSF API,...
OSF Preprint Providers API
Preprint Providers are entities that manage and moderate groups of preprints on the OSF platform. Each Preprint Provider oversees its own preprint service, which can include bra...
OSF Preprints API
The Preprints API from OSF — 17 operation(s) for preprints.
OSF Regions API
Storage Regions are predefined geographical or cloud-storage areas where files are stored within OSF Storage. Each region provides isolation of data in compliance with geographi...
OSF Registration Providers API
Registration Providers are entities that manage and moderate groups of registrations on the OSF platform. Each Registration Provider defines workflows, review policies, and cust...
OSF Registration Schema Blocks API
Registration Schema Blocks are read-only entities, they represent question prompts and form inputs known as "blocks" that make up a Registration Schemas. Each block has a design...
OSF Registration Schemas API
A Registration Schemas defines the range of valid responses to a registration. Each Registration Schema is composed of "blocks" tha...
OSF Registrations API
The Registrations API from OSF — 38 operation(s) for registrations.
OSF Requests API
Manage user-initiated requests related to nodes and preprints, including access requests, withdrawal requests, and institutional affiliation requests. Requests are actions initi...
OSF Resources API
Resources are structured data artifacts associated with a Registration. These can include datasets, analytic code, materials, papers, or supplementary files that contribute to t...
OSF Schema Response Actions API
Schema Response Actions are objects that when created cause state transitions for Schema Responses. Users use state transitions to submit, approve, and revise new Schema Respons...
OSF Schema Responses API
Schema Responses contain user supplied responses to a Registration Schema. A Schema Response aggregates all of the the responses for a given version of a Registration's Registra...
OSF Subjects API
Subjects endpoints provide access to the taxonomy used for categorizing OSF resources such as nodes, preprints, and registrations. Subjects can be hierarchical, with parent and ...
OSF Taxonomies API
The Taxonomies API from OSF — 4 operation(s) for taxonomies.
OSF Tokens API
**Personal Access Tokens** allow users to authenticate API requests without credentials. Tokens support fine-grained permissions (scopes) to control API access levels.
OSF Users API
Users represent individual accounts within the OSF (Open Science Framework) platform. Each user account includes identifying information such as names, email addresses, profile ...
OSF View Only Links API
The View Only Links API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for view only links.
OSF Wikis API
The Wikis endpoints allow users to create, update, retrieve, and manage wiki pages and their versions for OSF projects and registrations. Wikis are collaborative documents that ...
OSF Add Ons API
Addons represent a user connection to an external service, some addons allow for additional storage, some modify user authentication or add a redirect link to a project.
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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.
OSF API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity Posture 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for OSF — 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 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 4
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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