Automotive Grade Linux

aid: automotive-grade-linux
name: Automotive Grade Linux
description: Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a collaborative open source project under the Linux Foundation that develops
  a unified software platform for connected vehicles. AGL brings together automakers (Toyota, Honda, Mercedes-Benz), suppliers,
  and technology companies to build an open Linux-based software stack for in-vehicle infotainment, instrument clusters, telematics,
  and software-defined vehicle (SoDeV) architectures. The platform decouples software from hardware enabling rapid automotive
  application development.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: MPL-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/automotive-grade-linux.png
x-docs-platform: readthedocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-19
tags:
- Automotive
- Connected Vehicles
- Embedded Linux
- In-Vehicle Infotainment
- IoT
- Linux Foundation
- Open Source
- Software Defined Vehicles
tags_raw:
- Automotive
- Connected Vehicles
- Embedded Linux
- In-Vehicle Infotainment
- IoT
- Linux Foundation
- Open Source
- Software Defined Vehicles
- Open-Source
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/automotive-grade-linux/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-09-14'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: automotive-grade-linux:agl-application-framework-api
  name: AGL Application Framework API
  description: The AGL Application Framework provides APIs for managing applications on the AGL platform including installation,
    lifecycle management, permission enforcement, and inter-application communication. Applications interact with vehicle
    services through the Application Framework using D-Bus and WebSocket-based APIs.
  humanURL: https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/master/#0_Getting_Started/2_Developing_an_AGL_Application/
  tags:
  - Application Framework
  - Lifecycle Management
  - IVI
  - D-Bus
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/master/#0_Getting_Started/2_Developing_an_AGL_Application/
- aid: automotive-grade-linux:vsomeip-service-api
  name: AGL VSOMEIP Service API
  description: AGL uses SOME/IP (Scalable service-Oriented MiddlewarE over IP) via the vSomeIP library for vehicle service
    communication. This enables microservice communication between ECUs over Ethernet using the SOME/IP protocol, supporting
    service discovery, request-response, and event notification patterns for in-vehicle networks.
  humanURL: https://github.com/COVESA/vsomeip
  tags:
  - SOME/IP
  - Vehicle Services
  - ECU Communication
  - Ethernet
  - Microservices
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/COVESA/vsomeip
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/COVESA/vsomeip
- aid: automotive-grade-linux:sodev-api
  name: AGL SoDeV Software Defined Vehicle API
  description: The AGL SoDeV (Software Defined Vehicle) reference platform provides APIs for software-defined vehicle architectures
    that decouple software from hardware. SoDeV builds on Zephyr RTOS and meta-AGL layers to provide a foundation for developing
    modern in-vehicle computing architectures with over-the-air update capabilities and service-oriented interfaces.
  humanURL: https://www.automotivelinux.org
  tags:
  - Software Defined Vehicles
  - Zephyr
  - OTA Updates
  - Vehicle Computing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.automotivelinux.org
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux/meta-agl-monorepo
- aid: automotive-grade-linux:agl-lava-api
  name: AGL LAVA Test Lab API
  description: The REST API of AGL's public LAVA (Linaro Automated Validation Architecture) continuous integration lab, where
    AGL images are booted and tested on real automotive hardware. Version v0.2 under /api/v0.2/ exposes jobs, devices, device
    types, workers, tags, aliases and permissions; a legacy XML-RPC root at /RPC2 still carries a few admin calls. Read operations
    answer anonymously; submitting or cancelling a job requires a LAVA token. AGL publishes no OpenAPI for it, but does publish
    its own agent-facing API reference and a four-language MCP server that fronts it.
  humanURL: https://lava.automotivelinux.org
  baseURL: https://lava.automotivelinux.org/api/v0.2
  tags:
  - Continuous Integration
  - Testing
  - Automation
  - Device Lab
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: skills/automotive-grade-linux-lava-skill.md
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/automotive-grade-linux-lava-skill.md
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/automotive-grade-linux-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/automotive-grade-linux-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: automotive-grade-linux:agl-gerrit-api
  name: AGL Gerrit Code Review API
  description: 'AGL runs its own Gerrit instance as the authoritative home of the AGL source tree - 263 projects including
    meta-agl, AGL-repo and the agl-service-* application-framework bindings. Its REST API is anonymously readable: projects,
    branches, changes and server configuration all answer without a credential, which makes the AGL release branch set (guppy
    through vimba) machine-discoverable. The contract is upstream Gerrit''s, documented by the Gerrit project; AGL operates
    the deployment and the data.'
  humanURL: https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org
  baseURL: https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit
  tags:
  - Source Code
  - Code Review
  - Developer Infrastructure
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/rest-api.html
- aid: automotive-grade-linux:agl-instrument-cluster-api
  name: AGL Instrument Cluster API
  description: The published interface specification between the Cluster UI in the HMI layer and the IC-Service in the service
    layer of an AGL instrument cluster. Revision 1.0, officially released 2026-02-04 after four years of drafts. Defined against
    the C language ABI, with polling and event usage models over pseudo shared memory, enum and macro constant definitions,
    and a signal retrieval API documented per function. This is an in-process/IPC interface, not an HTTP API - it has no base
    URL and no callable host, which is why none is recorded.
  humanURL: https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/master/05_APIs_and_Services/instrument-cluster/AGL-Instrument-Cluster-API-en/
  tags:
  - Instrument Cluster
  - HMI
  - C ABI
  - Vehicle Signals
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/master/05_APIs_and_Services/instrument-cluster/AGL-Instrument-Cluster-API-en/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/master/05_APIs_and_Services/01_Introduction/
- aid: automotive-grade-linux:automotivelinux-org-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Automotive Grade Linux Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Automotive Grade Linux website at www.automotivelinux.org:
    the route index of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://www.automotivelinux.org/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.automotivelinux.org/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/automotive-grade-linux-events-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/automotive-grade-linux-events-tec-v1-overlay.yaml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/automotive-grade-linux-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/automotive-grade-linux-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/automotive-grade-linux-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/automotive-grade-linux-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/automotive-grade-linux-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/automotive-grade-linux-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/automotive-grade-linux-api-catalog.json
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/automotive-grade-linux-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/automotive-grade-linux-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/automotive-grade-linux-changelog.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/automotive-grade-linux-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/automotive-grade-linux-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/automotive-grade-linux-data-model.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/automotive-grade-linux-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/automotive-grade-linux-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/automotive-grade-linux-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/automotive-grade-linux-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/automotive-grade-linux-finops.yml
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/master/05_APIs_and_Services/instrument-cluster/AGL-Instrument-Cluster-API-en/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.automotivelinux.org/software/download/get-started/
- type: Support
  url: https://lists.automotivelinux.org/g/agl-main
- type: Community
  url: https://discord.gg/ZztCaVeQVG
- type: Documentation
  url: https://lf-automotivelinux.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HOME/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/privacy
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1axavgir413w00rwBHPAtQ
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/automotive-grade-linux-authentication.yml
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/COVESA/vsomeip/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/COVESA/vsomeip/releases
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/COVESA/vsomeip/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: MPL-2.0
  url: https://github.com/COVESA/vsomeip/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/automotive-grade-linux-domain-security.yml
- url: https://www.automotivelinux.org/feed/
  type: Blog
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/automotive-grade-linux
- type: Website
  url: https://www.automotivelinux.org
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.automotivelinux.org
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux/meta-agl-monorepo
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Yocto-Based Build System
    description: AGL uses the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded build framework with meta-AGL layers for creating customized
      embedded Linux distributions targeting automotive hardware platforms including Renesas R-Car and Raspberry Pi.
  - name: SOME/IP Vehicle Services
    description: Service-oriented in-vehicle communication using the SOME/IP protocol via vSomeIP for microservice architectures
      across ECUs over automotive Ethernet networks.
  - name: Software Defined Vehicle (SoDeV)
    description: AGL SoDeV reference platform for decoupling software from hardware, enabling flexible, updatable in-vehicle
      software architectures using Zephyr RTOS and container-based application isolation.
  - name: Over-The-Air Updates
    description: OTA update framework for delivering software updates to AGL-based in-vehicle systems without physical access,
      supporting fleet-wide update management.
  - name: IVI and Instrument Cluster Support
    description: Wayland/Weston-based display framework for in-vehicle infotainment and digital instrument cluster applications
      with automotive-grade display requirements.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: In-Vehicle Infotainment Development
    description: Develop navigation, media, and connectivity applications for automotive head units using AGL application
      framework APIs and the Wayland display system.
  - name: Connected Car Platform
    description: Build telematics, V2X communication, and cloud connectivity capabilities on AGL-based vehicle computing platforms.
  - name: Software Defined Vehicle Architecture
    description: Design vehicle software architectures that decouple application software from hardware using AGL SoDeV as
      the foundation platform.
  - name: Instrument Cluster Applications
    description: Create digital instrument cluster applications for speedometers, tachometers, and ADAS status displays using
      AGL display APIs.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: COVESA Vehicle Signal Specification
    description: Integration with the COVESA Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS) for standardized access to vehicle sensor
      and actuator data.
  - name: Eclipse KUKSA
    description: Integration with Eclipse KUKSA for vehicle signal API abstraction enabling portable in-vehicle application
      development.
  - name: Zephyr RTOS
    description: AGL SoDeV integrates Zephyr RTOS for safety-critical microcontroller domains within software-defined vehicle
      architectures.
  - name: Renesas R-Car Platforms
    description: Primary hardware reference platform support for Renesas R-Car SoCs used in production automotive IVI and
      cluster systems.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com
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