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Terraform

HashiCorp Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool that enables teams to define, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure using a declarative configuration language (HCL). HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise expose a comprehensive REST API for automating workspace management, runs, state, policies, and access control.

agent ready

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 Terraform the way a machine reads it — 51 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 — Terraform scores 48.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 32/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 48.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.1 / 25
Access Clarity 4.7 / 20
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Terraform Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Terraform

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Terraform. 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 9

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.

Terraform Modules API

Browse and search Terraform modules in the public registry

Terraform Organizations API

Manage HCP Terraform organizations

Terraform Policies API

Manage Sentinel and OPA policies

Terraform Projects API

Manage projects within organizations

Terraform Runs API

Manage Terraform runs and plan/apply lifecycle

Terraform State Versions API

Manage workspace state versions

Terraform Teams API

Manage teams and memberships

Terraform Variables API

Manage workspace and variable sets

Terraform Workspaces API

Manage infrastructure workspaces

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Open Collections 12

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).

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Arazzo Workflows 13

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.

Terraform Audit a Namespace's Published Modules

List everything a namespace publishes, then read the flagship module's versions and download metrics.

ARAZZO

Terraform Audit an Organization's Full Inventory

Sweep an organization for its projects, workspaces, teams, and policies in one pass.

ARAZZO

Terraform Find and Cancel a Stuck Run

Locate an in-flight run on a workspace, cancel it, and unlock the workspace.

ARAZZO

Terraform Destroy Infrastructure and Delete the Workspace

Queue a destroy run, apply it, then delete the emptied workspace.

ARAZZO

Terraform Discover a Registry Module and Vet It

Search the public registry for a module, read its latest version, and check its versions and download counts.

ARAZZO

Terraform Push a New State Version Under Lock

Lock a workspace, read its current state serial, upload a new state version, and unlock.

ARAZZO

Terraform Onboard a Sentinel or OPA Policy

Check whether a policy already exists in an organization, create it if not, and read it back.

ARAZZO

Terraform Onboard a Project and Its First Workspace

Create a project in an organization, place a workspace in it, and list the project's workspaces.

ARAZZO

Terraform Onboard a Team into an Organization

Check an organization's teams for a name, create the team if missing, and read it back.

ARAZZO

Terraform Pin a Module to a Specific Version and Resolve Its Source

Compare a module's latest version against the version you intend to pin, then resolve that exact version's download source.

ARAZZO

Terraform Plan a Run and Apply or Discard It

Queue a run, poll the plan to completion, then confirm or throw it away.

ARAZZO

Terraform Provision a Workspace with Initial Variables

Verify an organization, create a workspace, seed its variables, and read it back.

ARAZZO

Terraform Upsert a Workspace Variable

Set a workspace variable to a value whether or not it already exists.

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.

Terraform MCP Server

HashiCorp publishes an official open-source Terraform MCP server that exposes the Terraform Registry APIs and HCP Terraform / Terraform Enterprise workspace operations to AI age...

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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

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.

Terraform 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.

Terraform Context

33 classes · 0 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.

Terraform API Rules

10 rules · 1 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

Terraform API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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.

Terraform Run

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Terraform Workspace

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.

Terraform Workspace Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 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 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.

Terraform Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Terraform Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Terraform Vulnerability Disclosure

contact published

SECURITY

Terraform Trust Center

SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018

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.

Terraform Agentic Access

48 operations · 23 acting

48 operations · 23 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Terraform — 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

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Terraform, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

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