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StrongDM

StrongDM is a Zero Trust Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform that brokers and governs access to infrastructure — databases, servers, Kubernetes clusters, cloud resources, network devices, and internal web apps — through a central control plane. It enforces policy and authorization continuously with adaptive action controls, full session recording and audit, and no standing privileges. Automation is exposed through the StrongDM Admin API, a gRPC-based control-plane API that first-party SDKs (Go, Java, Python, Ruby, C#) wrap with REST-like ergonomics and request signing, plus a Terraform provider and the sdm command-line client. This profile was enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from StrongDM's public developer surface.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles StrongDM the way a machine reads it — 5 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — StrongDM scores 39.1/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 16/100 (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 — 39.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile StrongDM

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for StrongDM. 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 1

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.

StrongDM Admin API

The StrongDM control-plane API for automating management of resources, accounts, roles, access grants, gateways, relays, secret stores, and audit logs. The transport is gRPC wit...

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.

Strongdm Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 3

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.

Strongdm Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Strongdm Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Strongdm Trust Center

SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for StrongDM — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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