Sonatype Nexus
Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager provides a comprehensive REST API for managing software artifacts, repositories, and components across the software development lifecycle. It supports popular formats including Maven, npm, Docker, PyPI, NuGet, RubyGems, Go, Helm, APT, Yum, Cargo, Terraform, R, Swift, and more. The API covers repository configuration, component and asset management, security, blob stores, search, tasks, cleanup policies, staging, and system administration.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Sonatype Nexus the way a machine reads it — 61 machine-readable artifacts across 46 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 — Sonatype Nexus scores 58.7/100 (developing), 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Sonatype Nexus
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Sonatype Nexus. 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 46
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.
Sonatype Nexus assets API
The assets API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for assets.
Sonatype Nexus Azure blob store API
The Azure blob store API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for azure blob store.
Sonatype Nexus Blob store API
The Blob store API from Sonatype Nexus — 15 operation(s) for blob store.
Sonatype Nexus Capabilities API
The Capabilities API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for capabilities.
Sonatype Nexus Cleanup policies API
The Cleanup policies API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for cleanup policies.
Sonatype Nexus Community Edition Eula API
The Community Edition Eula API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for community edition eula.
Sonatype Nexus components API
The components API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for components.
Sonatype Nexus Content selectors API
The Content selectors API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for content selectors.
Sonatype Nexus Data Store API
The Data Store API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for data store.
Sonatype Nexus Database Upgrade API
The Database Upgrade API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for database upgrade.
Sonatype Nexus Email API
The Email API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for email.
Sonatype Nexus Formats API
The Formats API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for formats.
Sonatype Nexus Instance configuration API
The Instance configuration API from Sonatype Nexus — 5 operation(s) for instance configuration.
Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle API
The Lifecycle API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for lifecycle.
Sonatype Nexus Malicious Risk On Disk API
The Malicious Risk On Disk API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for malicious risk on disk.
Sonatype Nexus Manage Sonatype HTTP System Settings API
The Manage Sonatype HTTP System Settings API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for manage sonatype http system settings.
Sonatype Nexus Manage Sonatype Repository Firewall configuration API
The Manage Sonatype Repository Firewall configuration API from Sonatype Nexus — 6 operation(s) for manage sonatype repository firewall configuration.
Sonatype Nexus Monthly Metrics API
The Monthly Metrics API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for monthly metrics.
Sonatype Nexus Product licensing API
The Product licensing API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for product licensing.
Sonatype Nexus Reconcile Plan API
The Reconcile Plan API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for reconcile plan.
Sonatype Nexus Recovery Mode API
The Recovery Mode API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for recovery mode.
Sonatype Nexus Repository Management API
The Repository Management API from Sonatype Nexus — 108 operation(s) for repository management.
Sonatype Nexus Routing rules API
The Routing rules API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for routing rules.
Sonatype Nexus Script API
The Script API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for script.
Sonatype Nexus Search API
The Search API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for search.
Sonatype Nexus Security: Atlassian Crowd API
The Security: Atlassian Crowd API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for security: atlassian crowd.
Sonatype Nexus Security: certificates API
The Security: certificates API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for security: certificates.
Sonatype Nexus Security Management: Anonymous Access API
The Security Management: Anonymous Access API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for security management: anonymous access.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: api keys principals encryption API
The Security management: api keys principals encryption API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for security management: api keys principals encryption.
Sonatype Nexus Security management API
The Security management API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for security management.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: JWT API
The Security management: JWT API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for security management: jwt.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: LDAP API
The Security management: LDAP API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for security management: ldap.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: privileges API
The Security management: privileges API from Sonatype Nexus — 14 operation(s) for security management: privileges.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: realms API
The Security management: realms API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for security management: realms.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: roles API
The Security management: roles API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for security management: roles.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: SAML API
The Security management: SAML API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for security management: saml.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: SAML users API
The Security management: SAML users API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for security management: saml users.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: secrets encryption API
The Security management: secrets encryption API from Sonatype Nexus — 1 operation(s) for security management: secrets encryption.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: user tokens API
The Security management: user tokens API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for security management: user tokens.
Sonatype Nexus Security management: users API
The Security management: users API from Sonatype Nexus — 5 operation(s) for security management: users.
Sonatype Nexus Staging API
The Staging API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for staging.
Sonatype Nexus Status API
The Status API from Sonatype Nexus — 5 operation(s) for status.
Sonatype Nexus Support API
The Support API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for support.
Sonatype Nexus System: Nodes API
The System: Nodes API from Sonatype Nexus — 2 operation(s) for system: nodes.
Sonatype Nexus Tags API
The Tags API from Sonatype Nexus — 3 operation(s) for tags.
Sonatype Nexus Tasks API
The Tasks API from Sonatype Nexus — 7 operation(s) for tasks.
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Open Collections 1
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).
Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Sonatype Nexus 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.
Sonatype Nexus Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Sonatype Nexus 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.
Sonatype Nexus API Rules
SPECTRALSonatype Nexus API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
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.
Nexus Component
JSON SCHEMANexus Repository
JSON SCHEMAJSON 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.
Sonatype Nexus Component Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
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 Sonatype Nexus — 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 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
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
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