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Turborepo

Turborepo is a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases, built by Vercel and written in Rust. It accelerates monorepo development by orchestrating task pipelines with explicit dependency graphs, hashing task inputs to skip redundant work, and caching task outputs locally and remotely so the same build/lint/test never runs twice across developers and CI. The project ships the turbo CLI (turbo run, prune, watch, boundaries, ls, query, generate, login, link, telemetry) plus an open Remote Cache HTTP API specification that any server can implement — Vercel's Remote Cache is the reference, and community implementations enable fully self-hosted caching. Turborepo is MIT-licensed open source at github.com/vercel/turborepo.

agent ready

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 Turborepo the way a machine reads it — 28 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 — Turborepo scores 37.1/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 37.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Turborepo

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Turborepo. 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 2

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.

Turborepo analytics API

Operations for recording cache usage analytics

Turborepo artifacts API

Operations for managing cache artifacts

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).

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Features 21

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

High-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, written in Rust
Task pipeline orchestration with dependsOn graphs (turbo run build, lint, test)
Content-addressable local caching of task outputs
Remote Caching with shared artifact store across teammates and CI
Open Remote Cache API specification — any HTTP server can implement it
Vercel Remote Cache as the reference implementation (api.vercel.com)
Self-hosted remote cache compatible (ducktors/turborepo-remote-cache, brunojppb/turbo-cache-server)
Package manager support — npm, pnpm, Yarn, Bun
turbo prune for shipping minimal monorepo subsets to Docker/production
turbo watch for single-process dependency-aware task watching
turbo boundaries for enforcing architectural rules between packages
turbo query — GraphQL queries over monorepo structure
turbo ls for listing packages and dependencies
turbo gen scaffolding for new apps and packages
turbo-ignore helper for CI skip-build decisions based on affected packages
Codemods via turbo-codemod for upgrading between major versions
VS Code extension (turbo-vsc) and ESLint plugin/config
Telemetry CLI (turbo telemetry enable/disable/status) with anonymous opt-out
Login flow (turbo login, turbo link, turbo unlink) for Remote Cache provider auth
turbo bin and turbo docs helper commands
MIT licensed, open source on GitHub (vercel/turborepo)

Scroll within the panel for all 21 ·

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.

Turborepo Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Turborepo Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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.

Turborepo Agentic Access

6 operations · 3 acting

6 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Turborepo — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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