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Pipedream

Pipedream is a developer-centric integration platform providing three product lines: Workflows (code-level event-driven automation in Node.js/Python/Go/Bash), Connect (an embedded integration toolkit for adding customer-facing integrations and AI agents to applications, with managed OAuth for 3,000+ APIs), and a hosted MCP server exposing 10,000+ tools over JSON-RPC for AI agents. Pipedream announced an acquisition agreement with Workday on 2025-11-19.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Pipedream the way a machine reads it — 218 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 — Pipedream scores 74.4/100 (exemplar), 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 — 74.4/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 16.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 10.3 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 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 Pipedream

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Pipedream. 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 16

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.

Pipedream Accounts API

The Accounts API from Pipedream — 4 operation(s) for accounts.

Pipedream Actions API

The Actions API from Pipedream — 5 operation(s) for actions.

Pipedream App Categories API

The App Categories API from Pipedream — 2 operation(s) for app categories.

Pipedream Apps API

The Apps API from Pipedream — 6 operation(s) for apps.

Pipedream Components API

The Components API from Pipedream — 4 operation(s) for components.

Pipedream Deployed Triggers API

The Deployed Triggers API from Pipedream — 7 operation(s) for deployed triggers.

Pipedream File Stash API

The File Stash API from Pipedream — 1 operation(s) for file stash.

Pipedream MCP API

The MCP API from Pipedream — 1 operation(s) for mcp.

Pipedream OAuth API

The OAuth API from Pipedream — 1 operation(s) for oauth.

Pipedream Projects API

The Projects API from Pipedream — 4 operation(s) for projects.

Pipedream Proxy API

The Proxy API from Pipedream — 1 operation(s) for proxy.

Pipedream Tokens API

The Tokens API from Pipedream — 2 operation(s) for tokens.

Pipedream Triggers API

The Triggers API from Pipedream — 5 operation(s) for triggers.

Pipedream Usage API

The Usage API from Pipedream — 1 operation(s) for usage.

Pipedream Users API

The Users API from Pipedream — 1 operation(s) for users.

Pipedream Webhooks API

The Webhooks API from Pipedream — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.

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Open Collections 2

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).

Pipedream MCP Server

OPEN COLLECTION

Pipedream API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 18

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Pipedream Audit and Clean Up Accounts by App

List a user's accounts for an app, inspect one, and remove all accounts for that app.

ARAZZO

Pipedream App Discovery

Browse app categories, search apps in a category, and retrieve one app's metadata.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Configure a Component Prop

Retrieve a component, then fetch the remote options for one of its props.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Connect Account Onboarding

Mint a Connect token for an end user, connect their account, and confirm it landed.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Deploy a Trigger

Find a trigger for an app, deploy it for an external user, and confirm deployment.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Pause a Deployed Trigger

Retrieve a deployed trigger, then deactivate it via an update.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Configure Project Environment Webhook

Set the project environment webhook URL, then read it back to confirm.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Provision a Connect Project

Create a Connect project, confirm it, and read its app configuration info.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Reload Dynamic Component Props

Retrieve a component, then reload its dynamic props from the current configuration.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Rotate a Trigger Webhook Signing Key

Retrieve a trigger webhook, then regenerate its signing key and confirm the new key.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Discover and Run an Action

Find an action for an app, inspect its props, and run it for an external user.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Route Trigger Events to Webhooks

Confirm a deployed trigger, set its webhook listeners, then read them back.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Route Trigger Events to Workflows

Confirm a deployed trigger, bind it to Pipedream workflows, then read them back.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Connect Token Mint and Validate

Create a Connect token for a user and validate it against a target app.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Inspect Deployed Trigger Events

Retrieve a deployed trigger, then poll its most recent emitted events.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Update Connect Project Settings

Read a project's current settings, apply updates, and confirm the new values.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Connect Usage and Users Report

List external users for a project, then pull Connect usage records for a window.

ARAZZO

Pipedream Offboard an External User

List a user's accounts and deployed triggers, then delete the user and all their resources.

ARAZZO

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Pipedream GraphQL Schema

This is a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Pipedream developer-first workflow automation platform. Pipedream exposes its capabilities today via a REST API at `api.pipedream.com...

GRAPHQL

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.

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.

Pipedream Rate Limits

4 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.

Features 19

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Free: 100 credits/day (1 credit = 30 sec compute @ 256 MB)
Basic $29/mo: 2,000 credits/day, 30-day event history
Advanced $79/mo: 10,000 credits/day, 1-year history, custom domains
Business custom: unlimited credits, SSO/SAML, audit logs
3,000+ integrated apps
10,000+ pre-built tools (exposed as MCP)
Code-level workflow editor (Node.js, Python, Go, Bash)
HTTP source endpoints (5 MB max event size)
Schedule (cron) sources
Webhook destinations with signing keys
Connect: managed OAuth for 3,000+ APIs
Connect Proxy: signed custom HTTP requests on behalf of end-users
Connect File Stash: end-user file storage
MCP Server: hosted at remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3 (SSE + streamable HTTP)
Native MCP support for OpenAI / Claude / Gemini / Vercel AI SDK
REST API: 60 req/min/user limit
HTTP source: 100 req/sec/endpoint
Step caching for memoization
Open-source workflow components (MIT)

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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.

Pipedream Context

40 classes · 1 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

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.

Pipedream API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Pipedream API Rules

9 rules · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 135

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.

Pipedream Account

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AccountId

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipedream App

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AppAuthType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipedream AppCategory

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BackendClientOpts

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClientOpts

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipedream Component

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ComponentStash

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ComponentType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurableProp

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropAirtableBaseId

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropAirtableFieldId

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropAirtableTableId

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropAirtableViewId

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropAlert

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropAlertType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropAny

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropApp

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropApphook

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropBase

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropBoolean

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropDataStore

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropDb

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropDir

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropDirAccessMode

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropDiscord

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropDiscordChannel

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropDiscordChannelArray

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropHttp

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropHttpRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropInteger

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropIntegerArray

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropObject

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropSql

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropSqlAuth

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropString

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropStringArray

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropStringFormat

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropTimer

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropTimerDefault

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropTimerOption

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurablePropTimerStatic

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredProps

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredPropValue

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredPropValueAny

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredPropValueApp

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredPropValueBoolean

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredPropValueInteger

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredPropValueObject

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredPropValueSql

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredPropValueString

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfiguredPropValueStringArray

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurePropOptions

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurePropOpts

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurePropResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipedream ConnectToken

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipedream ConnectUsage

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConnectUsageResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateAccountOpts

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateOAuthTokenOpts

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateOAuthTokenResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProjectOpts

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateTokenOpts

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateTokenResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteTriggerOpts

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeployedComponent

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeployTriggerOpts

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeployTriggerResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DynamicProps

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmittedEvent

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Emitter

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmitterType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExternalUser

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetAccountsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetAppCategoryResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetAppResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetAppsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetComponentResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetComponentsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetTriggerEventsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetTriggerResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetTriggersResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetTriggerWebhooksResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetTriggerWorkflowsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetUsersResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetWebhookResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetWebhookWithSigningKeyResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HttpInterface

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HttpRequestAuth

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HttpRequestBody

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HttpRequestConfig

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HttpRequestField

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JsonRpcRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JsonRpcResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListAccountsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListAppCategoriesResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListAppsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListProjectsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Observation

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ObservationError

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PageInfo

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipedream Project

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectEnvironment

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectInfoResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectInfoResponseApp

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PropOption

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PropOptionNested

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PropOptionValue

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProxyResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProxyResponseBinary

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReloadPropsOpts

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReloadPropsResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RunActionOpts

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RunActionOptsStashId

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RunActionResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SetWebhookOpts

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SetWebhookResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartConnectOpts

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StashId

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimerCron

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimerInterface

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimerInterval

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ToolAnnotations

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TriggerWebhook

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateProjectLogoOpts

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateProjectOpts

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateTriggerOpts

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateTriggerWebhooksOpts

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateTriggerWorkflowsOpts

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ValidateTokenResponse

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Webhook

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebhookWithOptionalSigningKey

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebhookWithSigningKey

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 8

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.

Pipedream Account Structure

14 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Pipedream App Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Pipedream Appcategory Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Pipedream Component Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Pipedream Connecttoken Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Pipedream Connectusage Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Pipedream Project Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Pipedream Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 9

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.

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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.

Pipedream Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Pipedream Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Pipedream Scopes

16 scopes · clientCredentials

16 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Pipedream Agentic Access

62 operations · 31 acting

62 operations · 31 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Pipedream — 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 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 8

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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