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Tessell

Tessell is a multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform that runs Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Milvus, and Apache Kafka inside a customer's own AWS, Azure, or GCP account, under the customer's encryption keys and network policies. The platform is API-first — everything available in the Tessell console is also available through its REST API and Terraform provider — covering database provisioning, availability machines (backup/recovery), Dataflix data access, governance, security profiles, monitoring, and metering across engines and clouds.

agent native

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 Tessell the way a machine reads it — 87 machine-readable artifacts across 82 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 — Tessell scores 47.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 61/100 (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 — 47.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 61/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Tessell

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Tessell. 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 82

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.

Tessell activity-center API

The activity-center API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for activity-center.

Tessell Ad Domain API

The Ad Domain API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for ad domain.

Tessell Ad Domain Governance API

The Ad Domain Governance API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for ad domain governance.

Tessell agentController API

The agentController API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for agentcontroller.

Tessell alert-controller API

The alert-controller API from Tessell — 10 operation(s) for alert-controller.

Tessell Authorization API

The Authorization API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for authorization.

Tessell Availability Machine API

The Availability Machine API from Tessell — 10 operation(s) for availability machine.

Tessell azure-netapp-admin-controller API

The azure-netapp-admin-controller API from Tessell — 11 operation(s) for azure-netapp-admin-controller.

Tessell azure-netapp-service-controller API

The azure-netapp-service-controller API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for azure-netapp-service-controller.

Tessell cloud-resource API

The cloud-resource API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for cloud-resource.

Tessell Compute API

The Compute API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for compute.

Tessell Compute Governance API

The Compute Governance API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for compute governance.

Tessell Compute Resource API

The Compute Resource API from Tessell — 13 operation(s) for compute resource.

Tessell Conversation API

The Conversation API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for conversation.

Tessell conversationControllerDeprecated API

The conversationControllerDeprecated API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for conversationcontrollerdeprecated.

Tessell Data Access Policy API

The Data Access Policy API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for data access policy.

Tessell data-pipeline API

The data-pipeline API from Tessell — 14 operation(s) for data-pipeline.

Tessell Data Sanitization API

The Data Sanitization API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for data sanitization.

Tessell Data Script API

The Data Script API from Tessell — 8 operation(s) for data script.

Tessell Database API

The Database API from Tessell — 6 operation(s) for database.

Tessell dataflix-controller API

The dataflix-controller API from Tessell — 5 operation(s) for dataflix-controller.

Tessell DB Collection API

The DB Collection API from Tessell — 6 operation(s) for db collection.

Tessell DB Connection Pool API

The DB Connection Pool API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for db connection pool.

Tessell DB Profile ACLs API

The DB Profile ACLs API from Tessell — 6 operation(s) for db profile acls.

Tessell DB Profile API

The DB Profile API from Tessell — 7 operation(s) for db profile.

Tessell db-schema-controller API

The db-schema-controller API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for db-schema-controller.

Tessell DB Service ACL API

The DB Service ACL API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for db service acl.

Tessell DB Service API

The DB Service API from Tessell — 20 operation(s) for db service.

Tessell DB Service Benchmark API

The DB Service Benchmark API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for db service benchmark.

Tessell DB Service Instance API

The DB Service Instance API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for db service instance.

Tessell DB Service Schedule API

The DB Service Schedule API from Tessell — 6 operation(s) for db service schedule.

Tessell Encryption Key API

The Encryption Key API from Tessell — 10 operation(s) for encryption key.

Tessell EncryptionKeysAdminView API

The EncryptionKeysAdminView API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for encryptionkeysadminview.

Tessell Event API

The Event API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for event.

Tessell exadata-infrastructure API

The exadata-infrastructure API from Tessell — 10 operation(s) for exadata-infrastructure.

Tessell fsx-netapp-admin-controller API

The fsx-netapp-admin-controller API from Tessell — 13 operation(s) for fsx-netapp-admin-controller.

Tessell fsx-netapp-service-controller API

The fsx-netapp-service-controller API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for fsx-netapp-service-controller.

Tessell Genie API

The Genie API from Tessell — 7 operation(s) for genie.

Tessell Identity Providers API

The Identity Providers API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for identity providers.

Tessell infra-deployment API

The infra-deployment API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for infra-deployment.

Tessell Integration Governance API

The Integration Governance API from Tessell — 9 operation(s) for integration governance.

Tessell License Governance API

The License Governance API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for license governance.

Tessell Logs API

The Logs API from Tessell — 11 operation(s) for logs.

Tessell maintenance-window API

The maintenance-window API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for maintenance-window.

Tessell Metering API

The Metering API from Tessell — 8 operation(s) for metering.

Tessell Monitoring API

The Monitoring API from Tessell — 12 operation(s) for monitoring.

Tessell Notification API

The Notification API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for notification.

Tessell Parameter Profile API

The Parameter Profile API from Tessell — 10 operation(s) for parameter profile.

Tessell Password Policy API

The Password Policy API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for password policy.

Tessell Payment API

The Payment API from Tessell — 5 operation(s) for payment.

Tessell Personas API

The Personas API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for personas.

Tessell Privileges API

The Privileges API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for privileges.

Tessell Roles API

The Roles API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for roles.

Tessell rpo-policy API

The rpo-policy API from Tessell — 6 operation(s) for rpo-policy.

Tessell Sample Dataset API

The Sample Dataset API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for sample dataset.

Tessell security-profiles-acls API

The security-profiles-acls API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for security-profiles-acls.

Tessell security-profiles API

The security-profiles API from Tessell — 9 operation(s) for security-profiles.

Tessell Service Plan API

The Service Plan API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for service plan.

Tessell service-refresh-controller API

The service-refresh-controller API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for service-refresh-controller.

Tessell SLA Policy API

The SLA Policy API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for sla policy.

Tessell Snapshot and Backup API

The Snapshot and Backup API from Tessell — 8 operation(s) for snapshot and backup.

Tessell Software Library API

The Software Library API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for software library.

Tessell Software Library Governance API

The Software Library Governance API from Tessell — 6 operation(s) for software library governance.

Tessell SSO API

The SSO API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for sso.

Tessell Subscription API

The Subscription API from Tessell — 22 operation(s) for subscription.

Tessell Tessell App API

The Tessell App API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for tessell app.

Tessell tessell-cloud-controller API

The tessell-cloud-controller API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for tessell-cloud-controller.

Tessell tessell-compute-resource-acl-controller API

The tessell-compute-resource-acl-controller API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for tessell-compute-resource-acl-controller.

Tessell tessell-database-security-config API

The tessell-database-security-config API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for tessell-database-security-config.

Tessell tessell-maintenance-center-controller API

The tessell-maintenance-center-controller API from Tessell — 14 operation(s) for tessell-maintenance-center-controller.

Tessell tessell-notification-channel-controller API

The tessell-notification-channel-controller API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for tessell-notification-channel-controller.

Tessell tessell-notification-profile-controller API

The tessell-notification-profile-controller API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for tessell-notification-profile-controller.

Tessell tessell-service-option-profile API

The tessell-service-option-profile API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for tessell-service-option-profile.

Tessell tessell-service-precheck-controller API

The tessell-service-precheck-controller API from Tessell — 6 operation(s) for tessell-service-precheck-controller.

Tessell tessellGatewayServiceController API

The tessellGatewayServiceController API from Tessell — 1 operation(s) for tessellgatewayservicecontroller.

Tessell Ticket API

The Ticket API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for ticket.

Tessell ticketControllerDeprecated API

The ticketControllerDeprecated API from Tessell — 5 operation(s) for ticketcontrollerdeprecated.

Tessell Userpool API

The Userpool API from Tessell — 2 operation(s) for userpool.

Tessell Users API

The Users API from Tessell — 17 operation(s) for users.

Tessell VPC API

The VPC API from Tessell — 3 operation(s) for vpc.

Tessell VPC Governance API

The VPC Governance API from Tessell — 17 operation(s) for vpc governance.

Tessell VPC Peering Governance API

The VPC Peering Governance API from Tessell — 4 operation(s) for vpc peering governance.

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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.

tessell-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

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.

Tessell Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tessell Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Tessell Trust Center

PCI DSS v4.1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO/IEC 27701

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Tessell — 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 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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