Black Duck Software

Black Duck Software is an independent application security company (formerly the Synopsys Software Integrity Group, spun out in October 2024 and backed by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners). Its portfolio spans Software Composition Analysis (Black Duck SCA), static analysis (Coverity), dynamic and interactive testing, fuzzing, and the Polaris SaaS platform, helping organizations find and fix open-source, license, and security risk across the SDLC. Black Duck exposes a versioned REST API (custom media types, bearer-token / API-token auth, HAL-style hypermedia), native CI/CD plug-ins, the Detect command-line scanner, webhooks, and an official MCP server (Black Duck Signal) for AI coding assistants.

Black Duck Software is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Security, Application Security, Software Composition Analysis, and Open Source Security.

Black Duck Software’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, CLI, authentication, and 21 more developer resources.

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36.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanySecurityApplication SecuritySoftware Composition AnalysisOpen Source SecurityStatic AnalysisDevSecOpsVulnerability ManagementSASTSCA

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 36.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 14.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 7.2 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Compliance

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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description: Black Duck Software is an independent application security company (formerly the Synopsys Software Integrity
  Group, spun out in October 2024 and backed by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners). Its portfolio spans Software Composition
  Analysis (Black Duck SCA), static analysis (Coverity), dynamic and interactive testing, fuzzing, and the Polaris SaaS platform,
  helping organizations find and fix open-source, license, and security risk across the SDLC. Black Duck exposes a versioned
  REST API (custom media types, bearer-token / API-token auth, HAL-style hypermedia), native CI/CD plug-ins, the Detect command-line
  scanner, webhooks, and an official MCP server (Black Duck Signal) for AI coding assistants.
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- type: Blog
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- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.blackduck.com/
- type: Compliance
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- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/black-duck-software-trust-center.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/company/legal/vulnerability-disclosure-policy.html
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/black-duck-software-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
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- type: Conformance
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- type: Packages
  url: packages/black-duck-software-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/black-duck-software-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/black-duck-software-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/black-duck-software-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/black-duck-software-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/black-duck-software-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/black-duck-software-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
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- type: MCPServer
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Black Duck Software

Kin Score

MCP Servers 1

black-duck-software-mcp.yml

Security Posture 4

Black Duck Software Authentication

Black Duck Software Domain Security

Black Duck Software Vulnerability Disclosure

Black Duck Software Trust Center

Resources