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University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego is a public research university in La Jolla, California, and a campus of the University of California system. Its programmable footprint is real but almost entirely inward-facing, and the honest summary is that UC San Diego operates infrastructure rather than publishing products. Four surfaces are genuinely institution-operated: TritonAI, an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway running on the campus Data Science and Machine Learning Platform at tritonai-api.ucsd.edu, which publishes a live OpenAPI document and a SCIM 2.0 provisioning surface; a WSO2 API Manager 4.1.0 gateway at api.ucsd.edu whose catalogue is closed to anonymous clients; a Shibboleth identity provider registered in InCommon as urn:mace:incommon:ucsd.edu, whose SAML metadata is the one fully public machine-readable contract the institution has; and the Library Digital Collections, a locally developed Fedora/Solr repository that answers undocumented but live JSON at library.ucsd.edu/dc. What is NOT UC San Diego's own engineering is the campus API portal — collab.ucsd.edu redirects to an Atlassian Confluence Cloud tenant — and the DOI registration behind the repository, which runs on a California Digital Library DataCite account. There is no open, self-service, externally documented API; every campus API requires a UC San Diego Single Sign-On account or an issued credential, and the institution says so plainly.

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Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles University of California, San Diego the way a machine reads it — 37 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 — University of California, San Diego scores 56.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (agent aware). 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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University of California, San Diego Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile University of California, San Diego

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of California, San Diego. 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 13

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.

TritonAI Developer API — chat

Chat completion endpoints on the OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway UC San Diego operates for approved campus faculty, staff, researchers and teams. The gateway runs on the campus Da...

TritonAI Developer API — completions

Text completion endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. Institution-operated on campus infrastructure; access requires an issued TritonAI API key.

TritonAI Developer API — embeddings

Embedding generation endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. Institution-operated on campus infrastructure; access requires an issued TritonAI API key.

TritonAI Developer API — models

Model discovery endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. The catalogue of models the gateway exposes is published for campus users through the TritonAI Model Hub.

TritonAI Developer API — images

Image generation endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. Institution-operated on campus infrastructure; access requires an issued TritonAI API key.

TritonAI Developer API — audio

Speech synthesis and transcription endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. Institution-operated on campus infrastructure; access requires an issued TritonAI API key.

TritonAI Developer API — SCIM 2.0 provisioning

SCIM 2.0 (RFC 7643 / RFC 7644) user and group provisioning surface exposed by the TritonAI gateway on UC San Diego infrastructure — 18 operations across /scim/v2/Users, /scim/v2...

UC San Diego API Gateway (WSO2 API Manager)

The campus API gateway, running WSO2 API Manager 4.1.0 at api.ucsd.edu on UC San Diego address space (169.228.220.90), with a developer portal, a publisher console and a legacy ...

UC San Diego Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon / eduGAIN)

UC San Diego's SAML 2.0 identity provider, "TritON", registered in the InCommon Federation under entityID urn:mace:incommon:ucsd.edu and distributed through the InCommon MDQ met...

UC San Diego Web API Portal (Atlassian Confluence Cloud tenant)

The campus Web API Portal and REST API guidelines. TENANT, not institution-engineered — https://collab.ucsd.edu/api/api-documentation issues a 302 to https://ucsdcollab.atlassia...

UC San Diego DOI registration (DataCite / California Digital Library)

UC San Diego Library mints DOIs for its Digital Collections under DataCite repository account CDL.UCSD ("UC San Diego", registered 2012), prefix 10.6075. 22,934 DOIs resolve to ...

University of California, San Diego Objects API

Retrieval of a single digital object or assembled collection record.

University of California, San Diego Search API

Faceted search across publicly discoverable digital objects and collections.

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Open Collections 7

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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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.

Ucsd Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

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.

Ucsd Rate Limits

1 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.

Ucsd Finops

FINOPS

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.

Ucsd Context

14 classes · 3 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.

University of California, San Diego API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

University of California, San Diego API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors · 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.

TritonAI Chat Completion Request

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TritonAI Embedding Request

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

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.

Ucsd Chat Completion Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Ucsd Embedding Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

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 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.

Ucsd Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Ucsd Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Ucsd Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Ucsd Agentic Access

7 operations · 6 acting

7 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for University of California, San Diego — 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 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of University of California, San Diego, 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.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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