Yarn
Yarn is an open-source JavaScript package manager and project manager originally created at Facebook in 2016 and now developed as a fully independent community project (Yarn Berry, currently v4) on github.com/yarnpkg/berry. Yarn was the first package manager designed around workspaces and introduced Plug'n'Play (a node_modules-free module resolution strategy), Zero-Installs (committable caches for instant clones), Constraints (a cross-workspace policy DSL), and a rich protocol system covering npm, git, github, file, link, portal, patch, exec, and workspace dependencies. It is distributed via Corepack and licensed under BSD-2-Clause.
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 Yarn the way a machine reads it — 35 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 — Yarn scores 35.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Yarn
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Yarn. 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 10
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.
Yarn CLI
The Yarn command-line interface — `yarn` — provides install, add, remove, up, run, exec, dlx, info, why, pack, rebuild, dedupe, node, bin, search, upgrade-interactive, and stage...
Yarn Workspaces
Yarn was the first package manager built specifically around workspaces. `yarn workspace`, `yarn workspaces foreach`, `yarn workspaces focus`, and `yarn workspaces list` provide...
Yarn Plug'n'Play
Plug'n'Play (PnP) is Yarn's alternative to the traditional node_modules folder. Yarn generates a single `.pnp.cjs` file containing the exact dependency tree which Node.js consul...
Yarn Zero-Installs
Zero-Installs commit Yarn's package cache (`.yarn/cache`) into the repository alongside the `.pnp.cjs` file. Clones of the repository can start working immediately without runni...
Yarn Constraints
Yarn Constraints let you declare cross-workspace rules — required fields in `package.json`, forbidden dependencies, version pinning, and consistency requirements — using a JavaS...
Yarn Protocols
Yarn supports a rich set of dependency protocols beyond `npm:` semver — `git:`, `github:`, `file:`, `link:`, `portal:`, `patch:`, `exec:`, `workspace:`, and `http(s):`. Protocol...
Yarn Plugin API
Yarn ships with a full plugin API exposed by `@yarnpkg/core`. Plugins can register commands, resolvers, fetchers, linkers, and lifecycle hooks. Plugins are installed with `yarn ...
Yarn Version (Release Workflow)
Yarn provides a release-workflow primitive for monorepos. Contributors declare per-workspace version bumps as deferred decisions (`yarn version check --interactive`) and the pro...
Yarn Patch
First-class dependency patching — `yarn patch
Yarn DLX
The yarn dlx command runs a package in an isolated temporary environment without permanently installing it. Yarn's equivalent of npx, used for one-shot tools, code generators, a...
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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.
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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.
Yarn Pkg Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
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.
Yarn API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 1
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.
Yarn Workspace package.json
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Yarn — 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 16
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Build 13
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 1
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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