Ubuntu
Collection of APIs and services provided by Canonical for Ubuntu and related products. Includes the Snap Store API for package management, Launchpad API for project hosting and bug tracking, Ubuntu Security CVE API for vulnerability intelligence, and enterprise services including Ubuntu Pro, MAAS, Juju, and Landscape.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Ubuntu the way a machine reads it — 34 machine-readable artifacts across 17 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 — Ubuntu scores 48.9/100 (developing), 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.
How we profile Ubuntu
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Ubuntu. 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 17
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.
Ubuntu Pro API
API for managing Ubuntu Pro subscriptions and entitlements, including security patches, compliance tooling, and extended security maintenance.
Ubuntu Archive API
Access to Ubuntu package repositories and archive information via the Launchpad API's Ubuntu distribution endpoint.
Landscape API
Systems management API for Ubuntu servers enabling automated patch management, compliance reporting, and fleet monitoring for Ubuntu deployments.
MAAS API
Metal as a Service API for physical server provisioning, enabling automated bare-metal infrastructure management and cloud-like workflows.
Juju API
Application modeling and deployment API supporting automated deployment, scaling, and management of applications across clouds and bare metal.
Ubuntu Bugs API
Bug tracking and management
Ubuntu Categories API
Snap category listings
Ubuntu CVEs API
CVE security vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Distributions API
Ubuntu distribution resources
Ubuntu Info API
Snap information and details
Ubuntu Metrics API
Snap usage metrics
Ubuntu Notices API
Ubuntu Security Notices
Ubuntu Packages API
Distribution package management
Ubuntu People API
People and team resources
Ubuntu Projects API
Open-source project resources
Ubuntu Refresh API
Snap update and refresh operations
Ubuntu Search API
Snap search and discovery
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Open Collections 3
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).
Ubuntu Security CVE API
OPEN COLLECTIONLaunchpad REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONSnap Store Devices API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Ubuntu Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Ubuntu Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Ubuntu Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Ubuntu Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Ubuntu API Rules
SPECTRALUbuntu API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
Ubuntu CVE
JSON SCHEMASnap Package
JSON SCHEMAJSON 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.
Ubuntu Snap Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
Ubuntu Cve List Example
EXAMPLEUbuntu Snap Search Example
EXAMPLESecurity 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.
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 Ubuntu — 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.
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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