# Score Specification

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/score/score-specification/  
**Provider:** Score — https://apis.io/providers/score/  
**Documentation:** https://score.dev/

Score Specification is one of 3 APIs that [Score](https://apis.io/providers/score/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Platform Engineering, Workload Specification, Cloud-Native, CNCF, and Open-Source. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

The Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that captures containers, service ports, and resource dependencies in a single file. Reference CLI implementations (score-compose and score-k8s) translate Score files into Docker Compose manifests or Kubernetes manifests respectively. The specification supports metadata, container definitions with environment variables and volume mounts, service port exposure, health probes, and resource references using placeholder syntax.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.score.dev/
- **Specification** — https://docs.score.dev/docs/score-specification/score-spec-reference/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/score-spec/spec
- **Vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/score-vocabulary.yml
- **JSONLDContext** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/json-ld/score-context.jsonld
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Score APIs (2)

- [score-compose](https://apis.io/apis/score/score-compose/)
- [score-k8s](https://apis.io/apis/score/score-k8s/)

## Tags

Platform Engineering, Workload Specification, Cloud-Native, CNCF, Open-Source

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