# Application Research

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/application-research/  
**APIs profiled:** 36

Application Research is a topic collection focused on specifications for declaring application service integration dependencies. It covers five specification formats: Score (platform-agnostic workload specs), Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB), Open Component Model (OCM), Open Resource Discovery (ORD), and Radius — all aimed at enabling deployment teams to understand what services (APIs, databases, caches, message buses, blob stores) an application requires.

## Kin Score — 34.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 74.4 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (36)

- **Application Research API Resources API** — API Resource operations
- **Application Research Applications API** — Application resource operations
- **Application Research Bundles API** — Operations for managing CNAB bundle descriptors
- **Application Research Capabilities API** — Capability operations
- **Application Research Claim Results API** — Operations for managing claim execution results
- **Application Research Claims API** — Operations for managing installation claims
- **Application Research Components API** — Operations for managing component descriptors
- **Application Research Configurations API** — Operations for managing component configurations
- **Application Research Consumption Bundles API** — Consumption Bundle operations
- **Application Research Containers API** — Container resource operations
- **Application Research Credentials API** — Credential management operations
- **Application Research Dapr API** — Dapr component operations
- **Application Research Data Products API** — Data Product operations
- **Application Research Datastores API** — Datastore portable resource operations
- **Application Research Entity Types API** — Entity Type operations
- **Application Research Environments API** — Environment resource operations
- **Application Research Event Resources API** — Event Resource operations
- **Application Research Extenders API** — Extender portable resource operations
- **Application Research Gateways API** — Gateway resource operations
- **Application Research Groups API** — Group and Group Type operations
- **Application Research Integration Dependencies API** — Integration Dependency operations
- **Application Research Messaging API** — Messaging portable resource operations
- **Application Research ORD Documents API** — Operations for ORD Document management
- **Application Research Packages API** — Package management operations
- **Application Research Planes API** — Plane management operations
- **Application Research Products API** — Product operations
- **Application Research ResourceGroups API** — Resource group operations
- **Application Research Resources API** — Operations for managing component resources
- **Application Research SecretStores API** — Secret store operations
- **Application Research Signatures API** — Operations for component signing and verification
- **Application Research Sources API** — Operations for managing component sources
- **Application Research Status API** — Operations for querying installation status
- **Application Research Validation API** — Workload validation operations
- **Application Research Vendors API** — Vendor operations
- **Application Research Volumes API** — Volume resource operations
- **Application Research Workloads API** — Score workload management operations

## Agentic access (1)

- **Application Research Agentic Access** — 103 operations · 32 acting

## Security (2)

- **Application Research Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2/openIdConnect · 4 schemes
- **Application Research Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Application Research Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Multi-Platform Deployment** — Define an application once and deploy it across Kubernetes, Docker, or cloud platforms
- **Dependency Documentation** — Explicitly declare all required services (databases, caches, queues) for an application
- **Software Supply Chain Security** — Track and verify software component provenance and integrity
- **API Landscape Discovery** — Enable API management platforms to automatically discover application capabilities
- **Cloud Migration** — Move applications between cloud providers without rewriting configuration

## Tags

Application Dependencies, Cloud-Native, Integration, Research, Specifications, Workload Specifications

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