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Xbow

XBOW is an autonomous offensive security platform that uses AI to perform penetration testing with real exploit validation — it identifies vulnerabilities, chains them into attack paths, and proves exploitability before findings reach security teams. The XBOW API (public preview) exposes the full platform workflow: register assets, launch and manage assessments, fetch validated findings and reports, upload source-code resources for gray-box testing, and subscribe webhooks with Ed25519-signed deliveries. XBOW has ranked #1 on the HackerOne and Microsoft MSRC leaderboards and is used by 150+ security teams.

agent ready

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 Xbow the way a machine reads it — 25 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 — Xbow scores 55.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 32/100 (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.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 55.9/100 · strong
Contract Quality 15.3 / 25
Access Clarity 10.8 / 20
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Xbow Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Xbow

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Xbow. 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 9

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.

Xbow Assessments API

Endpoints related to assessments for assets. All endpoints require an _organization_ API key.

Xbow Assets API

Endpoints related to assets within an organization. All endpoints require an _organization_ API key.

Xbow Findings API

Endpoints for viewing and managing findings. All endpoints require an _organization_ API key.

Xbow Lightspeed API

Endpoints related to Lightspeed assessment requests.

Xbow Meta API

Instance metadata endpoints.

Xbow Organizations API

Endpoints related to organizations and their management.

Xbow Reports API

Endpoints for downloading and viewing reports. All endpoints require an _organization_ API key.

Xbow Resources API

Upload and manage files used in assessments, such as source code archives. All endpoints require an _organization_ API key. ## Upload flow Resources use a multipart S3 upload. T...

Xbow Webhooks API

Manage webhook subscriptions and receive event notifications. When creating an organization, you may provide an HTTPS webhook URL to receive events related to the organization's...

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Open Collections 10

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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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.

Xbow Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 4

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.

Xbow Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Xbow Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Xbow Vulnerability Disclosure

contact published

SECURITY

Xbow Trust Center

SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA

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.

Xbow Agentic Access

40 operations · 21 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

40 operations · 21 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Xbow — 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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

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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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Xbow, 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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