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Spring Boot

Spring Boot is an open source Java-based framework used to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications with minimal configuration. It provides auto-configuration, embedded server support, opinionated defaults, and production-ready features including health checks, metrics, and externalized configuration management.

agent aware

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 Spring Boot the way a machine reads it — 30 machine-readable artifacts across 13 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 — Spring Boot scores 45.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). 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 — 45.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 4.7 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Spring Boot

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Spring Boot. 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 13

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.

Spring Boot REST API

RESTful web services built with Spring Boot using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux. Supports JSON, XML, and hypermedia responses with full content negotiation, validation, error han...

Spring Data REST API

Exposes Spring Data repositories as hypermedia-driven RESTful resources automatically. Supports HAL, collection+json media types, sorting, pagination, projections, and custom ev...

Spring Boot Admin API

Admin UI and monitoring tool for Spring Boot applications providing registration, health monitoring, log level management, JMX bean access, and notification capabilities for mul...

Spring Boot Application API

The Application API from Spring Boot — 3 operation(s) for application.

Spring Boot Caches API

The Caches API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for caches.

Spring Boot Configuration API

The Configuration API from Spring Boot — 1 operation(s) for configuration.

Spring Boot Environment API

The Environment API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for environment.

Spring Boot Health API

The Health API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for health.

Spring Boot Info API

The Info API from Spring Boot — 1 operation(s) for info.

Spring Boot JVM API

The JVM API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for jvm.

Spring Boot Lifecycle API

The Lifecycle API from Spring Boot — 1 operation(s) for lifecycle.

Spring Boot Loggers API

The Loggers API from Spring Boot — 2 operation(s) for loggers.

Spring Boot Metrics API

The Metrics API from Spring Boot — 3 operation(s) for metrics.

Scroll within the panel for all 13 ·

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).

Spring Boot Actuator 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.

Spring Boot Rate Limits

5 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.

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.

Spring Boot Context

12 classes · 13 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.

Spring Boot API Rules

9 rules · 4 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Spring Boot API Rules

5 rules · 3 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.

Spring Boot Actuator Health Response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Spring Boot Actuator Metric Response

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Spring Boot Application Configuration

4 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.

Spring Boot Actuator Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

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.

Spring Boot Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Spring Boot Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

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.

Spring Boot Agentic Access

21 operations · 4 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

21 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Spring Boot — 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.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/spring-boot · machine-readable index on apis.io