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RubyGems

RubyGems.org is the Ruby community's primary gem hosting service, providing the infrastructure for publishing, discovering, and installing Ruby gems. The RubyGems API enables programmatic access to gem metadata, version information, download statistics, search, owner management, webhooks, and the compact index used by Bundler for dependency resolution. RubyGems.org hosts over 160,000 gems with billions of total downloads.

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 RubyGems the way a machine reads it — 30 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 — RubyGems scores 48.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (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 — 48.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 3.2 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile RubyGems

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for RubyGems. 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 9

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.

RubyGems Gems API

The RubyGems Gems API (v1) provides endpoints for retrieving gem metadata, listing owned gems, submitting new gems, yanking gem versions, managing gem ownership, retrieving user...

RubyGems Downloads API

The RubyGems Downloads API provides download count statistics for gems and individual gem versions hosted on RubyGems.org.

RubyGems Search API

The RubyGems Search API allows developers to search for gems by matching a query string against gem names and descriptions. Returns paginated results of active gems.

RubyGems Activity API

The RubyGems Activity API provides activity feeds of the most recently added and most recently updated gems on RubyGems.org, useful for monitoring new releases and tracking ecos...

RubyGems Webhooks API

The RubyGems Webhooks API enables webhook subscriptions that fire when gems are pushed to RubyGems.org. Webhooks can be scoped to a specific gem or applied globally using a wild...

RubyGems Dependencies API

Endpoints for querying gem dependency information.

RubyGems Owners API

Endpoints for managing gem ownership, including listing owners, adding and removing owners, and listing gems by owner.

RubyGems Profiles API

Endpoints for retrieving user profile information from RubyGems.org.

RubyGems Versions API

Endpoints for querying detailed version information for specific gem versions, including metadata, dependencies, checksums, and platform-specific builds.

Scroll within the panel for all 9 ·

Open Collections 6

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).

RubyGems Activity API

OPEN COLLECTION

RubyGems API V2

OPEN COLLECTION

RubyGems Downloads API

OPEN COLLECTION

RubyGems Gems API

OPEN COLLECTION

RubyGems Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

RubyGems Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Rubygems Rate Limits

6 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.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

RubyGems Webhook Events

The RubyGems webhook event system delivers HTTP POST notifications when gems are pushed to RubyGems.org. Webhook subscribers receive a JSON payload containing the full gem metad...

ASYNCAPI

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.

Rubygems Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

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.

RubyGems API Rules

3 rules · 1 errors · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

RubyGems API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

RubyGems API Rules

16 rules · 2 errors · 13 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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.

RubyGems Gem

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Rubygems Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

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.

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.

Rubygems Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Rubygems Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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.

Rubygems Agentic Access

28 operations · 9 acting

28 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for RubyGems — 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 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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