Tidelift
Tidelift provides open-source software supply-chain management for enterprises. Its platform combines package intelligence (maintenance, quality, end-of-life, and vulnerability signals) with catalogs of approved dependencies, policy and license standards enforcement, SBOM import/export, and "alignment" of projects against an organization's standards. Tidelift is distinctive for paying the open-source maintainers ("lifters") behind the packages enterprises rely on. The Tidelift External API (OpenAPI 3.0, Bearer API-key auth) exposes catalogs, violations, projects, groups, packages, releases, vulnerabilities, licenses, and reporting. Tidelift was acquired by Sonar in 2025; the API and developer surface remain active.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Tidelift the way a machine reads it — 37 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 — Tidelift scores 38.6/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (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.
Kin Score
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How we profile Tidelift
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Tidelift. 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 15
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.
Tidelift Alignments API
The Alignments API from Tidelift — 4 operation(s) for alignments.
Tidelift Attestations API
The Attestations API from Tidelift — 2 operation(s) for attestations.
Tidelift Authentication API
A [Tidelift API key](https://docs.tidelift.com/article/79-api-authentication) is required for all endpoints. If a particular type of API key is required it will be noted on the ...
Tidelift Basic Examples API
* curl ``` curl -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: bearer
Tidelift Catalog Releases API
The Catalog Releases API from Tidelift — 7 operation(s) for catalog releases.
Tidelift Catalogs API
The Catalogs API from Tidelift — 9 operation(s) for catalogs.
Tidelift CatalogStandards API
The CatalogStandards API from Tidelift — 3 operation(s) for catalogstandards.
Tidelift Groups API
The Groups API from Tidelift — 5 operation(s) for groups.
Tidelift Licenses API
The Licenses API from Tidelift — 5 operation(s) for licenses.
Tidelift Packages API
The Packages API from Tidelift — 6 operation(s) for packages.
Tidelift Projects API
The Projects API from Tidelift — 6 operation(s) for projects.
Tidelift Releases API
The Releases API from Tidelift — 5 operation(s) for releases.
Tidelift Reports API
The Reports API from Tidelift — 3 operation(s) for reports.
Tidelift Users API
The Users API from Tidelift — 1 operation(s) for users.
Tidelift Vulnerabilities API
The Vulnerabilities API from Tidelift — 2 operation(s) for vulnerabilities.
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Open Collections 16
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Attestations API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Authentication API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Basic Examples API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Catalog Releases API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Catalogs API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments CatalogStandards API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Groups API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Licenses API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Packages API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Projects API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Releases API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Reports API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Users API
OPEN COLLECTIONTidelift External Alignments Vulnerabilities API
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Arazzo Workflows 1
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.
Tidelift — package vulnerability check
Validate the API key, look up a package and a release, and pull the release's vulnerabilities.
ARAZZOEvent 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.
Tidelift Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity 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.
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 Tidelift — 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 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
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
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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