# Rigetti QCS Translation Service (gRPC)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-qcs-translation-service/  
**Provider:** Rigetti Computing — https://apis.io/providers/rigetti/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.rigetti.com/qcs/guides/the-rigetti-qcs-api

Rigetti QCS Translation Service (gRPC) is one of 11 APIs that [Rigetti Computing](https://apis.io/providers/rigetti/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Quantum Computing, QCS, Translation, Compilation, and Quil. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

gRPC Translation service that compiles native Quil programs into encrypted Controller Jobs for execution on a Rigetti QPU. Operations include TranslateQuilToEncryptedControllerJob and GetQuantumProcessorQuilCalibrationProgram. Authenticated with the same JWT bearer token used by the QCS HTTP API and consumed via qcs-sdk-rust/qcs-sdk-python or the Rust qcs-api-client-grpc crate.

## Machine-readable artifacts (10)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.rigetti.com/qcs/guides/the-rigetti-qcs-api
- **ProtocolBuffers** — https://github.com/rigetti/qcs-api-client-rust/tree/main/qcs-api-client-grpc/proto/translation
- **SDKs** — https://github.com/rigetti/qcs-api-client-rust
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rigetti/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rigetti/refs/heads/main/arazzo/rigetti-book-qpu-reservation-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rigetti/refs/heads/main/arazzo/rigetti-cancel-reservation-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rigetti/refs/heads/main/arazzo/rigetti-create-execution-engagement-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rigetti/refs/heads/main/arazzo/rigetti-discover-quantum-processor-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rigetti/refs/heads/main/arazzo/rigetti-provision-endpoint-and-engage-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rigetti/refs/heads/main/arazzo/rigetti-reservation-readiness-check-workflow.yml

## Other Rigetti Computing APIs (10)

- [Rigetti QCS Controller Service (gRPC)](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-qcs-controller-service/)
- [Rigetti Computing account API](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-account-api/)
- [Rigetti Computing authentication API](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-authentication-api/)
- [Rigetti Computing clientApplications API](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-clientapplications-api/)
- [Rigetti Computing endpoints API](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-endpoints-api/)
- [Rigetti Computing engagements API](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-engagements-api/)
- [Rigetti Computing Healthcheck API](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-healthcheck-api/)
- [Rigetti Computing quantumProcessors API](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-quantumprocessors-api/)
- [Rigetti Computing reservations API](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-reservations-api/)
- [Rigetti Computing Rigetti QCS API API](https://apis.io/apis/rigetti/rigetti-rigetti-qcs-api-api/)

## Tags

Quantum Computing, QCS, Translation, Compilation, Quil, gRPC

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