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Radicle

Radicle is a sovereign, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git, developed by Radicle (radicle.dev) and backed by Electric Capital. Instead of relying on a central host, every user runs their own node, and repositories, issues and patches replicate across the network as cryptographically-signed Collaborative Objects (COBs). The stack ships the `rad` command-line tooling, the Heartwood protocol and node, a terminal UI, a desktop app, and a web explorer. Each node can run `radicle-httpd`, a lightweight HTTP daemon that exposes a read-oriented JSON API over the node's storage — repositories, issues, patches, commits, source trees, node info and network statistics — which powers the Radicle web explorer and third-party tooling. Identity is key-based (DIDs / did:key), so there are no accounts, passwords or platform lock-in. This profile was enriched from Radicle's public surface: the live seed node API, the security.txt, the Heartwood source, and the CLI manuals.

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 Radicle the way a machine reads it — 11 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 — Radicle scores 44.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 50/100 (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 — 44.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 16.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 50/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile Radicle

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

Radicle Issues API

Repository issues (collaborative objects)

Radicle Node API

Node identity, configuration and peers

Radicle Patches API

Repository patches (change proposals)

Radicle Repositories API

Radicle repositories seeded by the node

Radicle Service API

API root and service metadata

Radicle Source API

Commits, trees, blobs and READMEs

Radicle Stats API

Aggregate node statistics

Scroll within the panel for all 7 ·

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.

radicle-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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.

Radicle Authentication

none/session · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Radicle Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Radicle Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Radicle — 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 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 3

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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