Socket
Socket is a developer-first supply-chain security platform that protects applications from malicious dependencies, vulnerable packages, license risk, and software-supply-chain attacks across npm, PyPI, Go, Maven, Cargo, NuGet, RubyGems, and other open-source ecosystems. Socket ships a hosted API, CLI, MCP server, Firewall package-installer proxy (sfw), GitHub App, IDE extensions, SDKs, and reusable integrations for Jira, Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft Teams. The Socket API exposes 70+ alert categories — malware, typo- squats, install scripts, telemetry, native code, crypto wallets, suspicious network activity, license issues — plus full-scan reports with SBOM export (CycloneDX, SPDX, OpenVEX), diff scans for pull requests, a triage workflow, webhooks, and a real-time threat feed of newly discovered malicious packages.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles Socket the way a machine reads it — 103 machine-readable artifacts across 19 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 — Socket scores 72.2/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 74/100 (agent native). 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.
How we profile Socket
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Socket. 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 19
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.
Socket alerts API
The alerts API from Socket — 4 operation(s) for alerts.
Socket api-tokens API
The api-tokens API from Socket — 6 operation(s) for api-tokens.
Socket audit-log API
The audit-log API from Socket — 1 operation(s) for audit-log.
Socket dependencies API
The dependencies API from Socket — 2 operation(s) for dependencies.
Socket diff-scans API
The diff-scans API from Socket — 7 operation(s) for diff-scans.
Socket fixes API
The fixes API from Socket — 1 operation(s) for fixes.
Socket full-scans API
The full-scans API from Socket — 13 operation(s) for full-scans.
Socket license-policy API
The license-policy API from Socket — 4 operation(s) for license-policy.
Socket metadata API
The metadata API from Socket — 5 operation(s) for metadata.
Socket org-settings API
The org-settings API from Socket — 2 operation(s) for org-settings.
Socket org-snapshots API
The org-snapshots API from Socket — 1 operation(s) for org-snapshots.
Socket packages API
The packages API from Socket — 2 operation(s) for packages.
Socket repo-labels API
The repo-labels API from Socket — 5 operation(s) for repo-labels.
Socket repos API
The repos API from Socket — 2 operation(s) for repos.
Socket security-policy API
The security-policy API from Socket — 1 operation(s) for security-policy.
Socket telemetry API
The telemetry API from Socket — 1 operation(s) for telemetry.
Socket threat-feed API
The threat-feed API from Socket — 1 operation(s) for threat-feed.
Socket triage API
The triage API from Socket — 2 operation(s) for triage.
Socket webhooks API
The webhooks API from Socket — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.
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Postman Collections 15
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Socket Alerts API
POSTMANSocket Api Tokens API
POSTMANSocket Audit Log API
POSTMANSocket Dependencies API
POSTMANSocket Diff Scans API
POSTMANSocket Fixes API
POSTMANSocket Full Scans API
POSTMANSocket Metadata API
POSTMANSocket Org Settings API
POSTMANSocket Org Snapshots API
POSTMANSocket Packages API
POSTMANSocket Repos API
POSTMANSocket Threat Feed API
POSTMANSocket Triage API
POSTMANSocket Webhooks API
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Open Collections 15
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).
Socket Alerts API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Api Tokens API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Audit Log API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Dependencies API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Diff Scans API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Fixes API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Full Scans API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Metadata API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Org Settings API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Org Snapshots API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Packages API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Repos API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Threat Feed API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Triage API
OPEN COLLECTIONSocket Webhooks API
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Arazzo Workflows 14
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.
Socket Audit Organization Dependencies
Search the organization's in-use dependencies by PURL, then pull alert metadata for those same packages.
ARAZZOSocket Create and Report a Full Scan
Ensure a repository exists, create a full scan from manifest files, poll until it finishes, then export the alert CSV.
ARAZZOSocket Diff Two Full Scans by ID
List the two most recent full scans for a repository and create a diff scan comparing them, then poll the diff until ready.
ARAZZOSocket Diff a Repository Against Its HEAD Scan
Confirm a repository, create a diff scan against its current HEAD full scan, then poll the diff until cached results are ready.
ARAZZOSocket Fix Vulnerabilities in a Repository
Confirm a repository and its HEAD scan, then fetch the available fixes for its vulnerabilities.
ARAZZOSocket Investigate Alert Across Scans
Pick the latest alert, find the full scans it appears in, then read the metadata of one of those scans.
ARAZZOSocket Generate PDF Report for Latest Scan
Find the most recent full scan for a repository, confirm its metadata, then generate a PDF report.
ARAZZOSocket Package Issues and Available Fixes
Look up alert metadata for a batch of packages by PURL, then fetch available fixes for the discovered vulnerabilities.
ARAZZOSocket Poll Full Scan to Completion
Create a full scan and poll its metadata until the scan_state leaves the processing states.
ARAZZOSocket Provision and Verify a Webhook
Create an organization webhook for selected events, then read it back to confirm it was registered.
ARAZZOSocket Rescan and Report a Full Scan
Rescan an existing full scan to apply the latest policies, poll the new scan to completion, then export its alert CSV.
ARAZZOSocket Review and Update Org Security Policy
Read the organization's current security policy, then write back an updated default level and rule set.
ARAZZOSocket Start and Poll Historical Snapshot
Start an on-demand historical data snapshot job, then poll the snapshot list until the job's request id appears.
ARAZZOSocket Triage Latest Alerts
List the latest organization alerts and, when any are present, apply a triage state to one of them.
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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.
socket-dev-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERPricing 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.
Socket Dev Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Socket Dev Finops
FINOPSFeatures 20
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.
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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.
Socket Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Socket API Rules
SPECTRALSocket API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
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.
Examples 4
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.
Socket Purl Batch Example
EXAMPLESocket Threat Feed Example
EXAMPLESocket Triage Update Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 4
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.
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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Socket — 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 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 19
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 18
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 8
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 15
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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