# ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/acknowledgments-md/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md is a standardized file convention used in open source repositories to credit third-party software, libraries, inspirations, and other works that a project builds upon or is indebted to. It is a common practice for documenting attribution and provenance, complementing LICENSE, README, CONTRIBUTING, and CODE_OF_CONDUCT files as part of a healthy open source project structure. The file typically lists dependencies, their copyright holders, and the licenses under which they are distributed.

## Kin Score — 9.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 9.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Use cases (4)

- **Open Source Projects** — Used in open source repositories to document all third-party dependencies, their licenses, and copyright notices for compliance.
- **Corporate Software Releases** — Required by many corporate open source release policies to document all third-party components before releasing software publicly.
- **Academic and Research Projects** — Used in academic repositories to cite datasets, tools, and prior work that the research builds upon.
- **Documentation Projects** — Applied to documentation repositories to credit sources, frameworks, and tools used to generate or host the documentation.

## Tags

Attribution, Documentation, Licensing, Open-Source, Repository, Standards

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/acknowledgments-md/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.