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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.

agent native

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

Kin Score

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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 72.2/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 17.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 74/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

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.

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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 COLLECTION

Socket Api Tokens API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Audit Log API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Dependencies API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Diff Scans API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Fixes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Full Scans API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Metadata API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Org Settings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Org Snapshots API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Packages API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Repos API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Threat Feed API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Triage API

OPEN COLLECTION

Socket Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

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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.

ARAZZO

Socket 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.

ARAZZO

Socket 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.

ARAZZO

Socket 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.

ARAZZO

Socket Fix Vulnerabilities in a Repository

Confirm a repository and its HEAD scan, then fetch the available fixes for its vulnerabilities.

ARAZZO

Socket Investigate Alert Across Scans

Pick the latest alert, find the full scans it appears in, then read the metadata of one of those scans.

ARAZZO

Socket Generate PDF Report for Latest Scan

Find the most recent full scan for a repository, confirm its metadata, then generate a PDF report.

ARAZZO

Socket Package Issues and Available Fixes

Look up alert metadata for a batch of packages by PURL, then fetch available fixes for the discovered vulnerabilities.

ARAZZO

Socket Poll Full Scan to Completion

Create a full scan and poll its metadata until the scan_state leaves the processing states.

ARAZZO

Socket Provision and Verify a Webhook

Create an organization webhook for selected events, then read it back to confirm it was registered.

ARAZZO

Socket 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.

ARAZZO

Socket Review and Update Org Security Policy

Read the organization's current security policy, then write back an updated default level and rule set.

ARAZZO

Socket 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.

ARAZZO

Socket Triage Latest Alerts

List the latest organization alerts and, when any are present, apply a triage state to one of them.

ARAZZO

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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 SERVER

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.

Socket Dev Rate Limits

3 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 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.

Socket API — supply-chain risk data via Package URL (purl) across npm, PyPI, Go, Maven, Cargo, NuGet, RubyGems, and others
Full Scans — repository-wide dependency graph and alert reports with SBOM export (CycloneDX, SPDX, OpenVEX, CSV, PDF)
Diff Scans — pull-request-aware comparison between two full scans, output as JSON or GFM markdown comment
Triage workflow — list and update disposition (ignore, acknowledge, escalate, allow) for alerts at scale
Historical alerts, dependencies, and snapshots — long-window trend analytics for posture reporting
Threat Feed — real-time discovery of malicious and suspicious packages across ecosystems
Fixes — version bumps, patches, and overrides for vulnerable dependencies, including auto-PR generation
70+ alert categories — malware, typosquats, install scripts, telemetry, native code, crypto wallets, supply-chain risks
Security and license policies per organization with per-repo label overrides
Webhooks for scan completion, alert generation, triage events, and threat-feed matches
Socket Firewall — registry proxy and `sfw` runtime that prevents installation of malicious packages
Socket CLI (JavaScript + Python) for scanning, fixing, and config validation
Socket MCP Server — Model Context Protocol server exposing Socket data to AI agents
Socket Optimize — drop-in package overrides for npm/pnpm/yarn that replace vulnerable transitive dependencies
Socket Basics — bundled SAST + Secrets + Container scanning for organizations standardizing on a single tool
Socket VS Code extension and Socket GitHub Action for in-editor and in-CI security gates
GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Jira, Slack, and Microsoft Teams integrations
SDKs for JavaScript / TypeScript (`@socketsecurity/sdk`) and Python
Append-only audit log of every administrative action for compliance evidence
Live OpenAPI spec served from https://api.socket.dev/v0/openapi

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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

0 classes · 10 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.

Socket API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Socket API Rules

12 rules · 2 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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.

SocketAlert

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SocketFullScanArtifact

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SocketPURL

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Security 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.

Socket Dev Authentication

http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Socket Dev Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Socket Dev Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Socket Dev Trust Center

SOC 2 Type I

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.

Socket Dev Scopes

97 scopes · authorizationCode/clientCredentials

97 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.

Socket Dev Agentic Access

81 operations · 41 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

81 operations · 41 acting

AGENTIC

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

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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