Autonomys

Autonomys is a decentralized infrastructure network providing permanent, verifiable, content-addressed data storage and AI-ready blockchain services, secured by a Proof-of-Archival-Storage consensus. Its developer surface centers on Auto Drive — permanent storage exposed through a REST API where objects are addressed by IPFS-style CIDs — and the Auto SDK, a TypeScript toolkit (@autonomys/* npm packages) for consensus, storage, cross-domain messaging, and DAG data. The broader stack adds Auto EVM (an Ethereum- compatible execution domain), Auto Agents (a framework for autonomous on-chain AI agents), and Auto ID (self-sovereign identity). Storage is paid in native AI3 via an on-chain Intents flow. Autonomys was surfaced as a portfolio company of Pantera Capital and has now been enriched from its public developer surface.

Autonomys publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Auto Drive API and Auto Drive Download Gateway API. Tagged areas include Company, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Web3, and Decentralized Storage.

The Autonomys catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Autonomys’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, and 21 more developer resources.

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42.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 92/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Company Cryptocurrency Blockchain Web3 Decentralized Storage Storage AI Agents IPFSTypeScript SDK

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Blockchain & Digital Assets

AE-240

Auto Drive APIAuto Drive Download Gateway

POST /uploads/file POST /uploads/{uploadId}/complete POST /downloads/async/{cid}

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 42.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 7.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 38.9 — up to +15.3 composite points
Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 18.4 — up to +10.6 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Autonomys Auto Drive API

The Auto Drive API API from Autonomys — 25 operation(s) for auto drive api.

Autonomys Auto Drive Download Gateway API

The Auto Drive Download Gateway API from Autonomys — 6 operation(s) for auto drive download gateway.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Auto Drive APIs Auto Drive API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Auto Drive APIs Auto Drive API Auto Drive Download Gateway API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Purchase Auto Drive storage credits with AI3

AGENT SKILL

Upload a file to Auto Drive and retrieve it by CID

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Autonomys API Rules

44 rules · 36 errors 6 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Autonomys Auto Drive Overlay

3 actions · servers · autonomys-auto-drive-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Autonomys Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Autonomys Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: autonomys
name: Autonomys
description: Autonomys is a decentralized infrastructure network providing permanent, verifiable, content-addressed data storage
  and AI-ready blockchain services, secured by a Proof-of-Archival-Storage consensus. Its developer surface centers on Auto
  Drive — permanent storage exposed through a REST API where objects are addressed by IPFS-style CIDs — and the Auto SDK,
  a TypeScript toolkit (@autonomys/* npm packages) for consensus, storage, cross-domain messaging, and DAG data. The broader
  stack adds Auto EVM (an Ethereum- compatible execution domain), Auto Agents (a framework for autonomous on-chain AI agents),
  and Auto ID (self-sovereign identity). Storage is paid in native AI3 via an on-chain Intents flow. Autonomys was surfaced
  as a portfolio company of Pantera Capital and has now been enriched from its public developer surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/autonomys/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.autonomys.xyz/favicon.ico
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- pantera-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
x-docs-platform: nextra
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-19
x-docs-hosting: netlify
tags:
- Company
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
- Web3
- Decentralized Storage
- Storage
- AI Agents
- IPFS
- TypeScript SDK
tags_raw:
- Company
- Crypto
- Blockchain
- Web3
- Decentralized Storage
- Storage
- AI Agents
- IPFS
- TypeScript SDK
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: autonomys:autonomys-auto-drive-api-api
  name: Autonomys Auto Drive API
  description: The Auto Drive API API from Autonomys — 25 operation(s) for auto drive api.
  humanURL: https://develop.autonomys.xyz/sdk/auto-drive/overview_setup
  baseURL: https://mainnet.auto-drive.autonomys.xyz
  tags:
  - Auto Drive API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/autonomys-auto-drive-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://develop.autonomys.xyz/sdk/auto-drive/api_reference
  - type: InteractiveDocs
    url: https://mainnet.auto-drive.autonomys.xyz/api/docs
- aid: autonomys:autonomys-auto-drive-download-gateway-api
  name: Autonomys Auto Drive Download Gateway API
  description: The Auto Drive Download Gateway API from Autonomys — 6 operation(s) for auto drive download gateway.
  humanURL: https://develop.autonomys.xyz/sdk/auto-drive/overview_setup
  baseURL: https://mainnet.auto-drive.autonomys.xyz
  tags:
  - Auto Drive Download Gateway
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/autonomys-auto-drive-download-gateway-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://develop.autonomys.xyz/sdk/auto-drive/api_reference
  - type: InteractiveDocs
    url: https://mainnet.auto-drive.autonomys.xyz/api/docs
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/autonomys-capability-edges.yml
  name: Autonomys Business Capability Map
- url: https://medium.com/feed/@autonomysnetwork
  type: BlogRSS
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/autonomys-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/autonomys-auto-drive-openapi.json
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/autonomys-auto-drive-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/autonomys-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/autonomys-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/autonomys-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/autonomys-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/autonomys-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/autonomys-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://telemetry.subspace.foundation
- type: Packages
  url: packages/autonomys-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/autonomys-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/autonomys-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/autonomys-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://develop.autonomys.xyz/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://develop.autonomys.xyz/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://develop.autonomys.xyz/sdk/auto-drive/api_reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://develop.autonomys.xyz/sdk/auto-drive/overview_setup
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/autonomys
- type: Support
  url: https://autonomys.xyz/discord
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/@autonomysnetwork
- type: SignUp
  url: https://ai3.storage
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.autonomys.xyz/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.autonomys.xyz/terms-of-use
- type: Website
  url: https://www.autonomys.xyz/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Autonomys API — frequently asked questions

Does Autonomys have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Autonomys, including Autonomys Auto Drive API and Autonomys Auto Drive Download Gateway API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Autonomys API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Autonomys, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Autonomys API?

Autonomys uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Autonomys Authentication.

Is the Autonomys API ready for AI agents?

Autonomys has a Kin Score of 42.4 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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