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Black Duck

Black Duck Software (formerly the Synopsys Software Integrity Group) is an application security company whose platform spans software composition analysis (SCA), static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), interactive application security testing (IAST), and open-source license and vulnerability management. Its API-first products — Black Duck SCA (Hub), Polaris, Coverity, and Seeker — expose REST APIs, webhooks, native CI/CD plug-ins, and the Detect command-line scanner so teams can automate open-source discovery, policy enforcement, and risk remediation across build pipelines such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps. Each Black Duck server publishes its own OpenAPI 3 document and Postman collection at /api-doc, and first-party Python and Go client libraries plus the Detect CLI wrap the API surface. This profile was seeded as a general-catalyst portfolio lead and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.

Black Duck is listed with 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Black Duck API, Issues API, Projects API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Application Security, Software Composition Analysis, and SAST.

The Black Duck catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Black Duck’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 26 more developer resources.

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43.3/100 developing ▼ -13.9 Agent 18/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0
6 APIs
CompanyEnterpriseApplication SecuritySoftware Composition AnalysisSASTDASTOpen Source SecurityDevSecOpsVulnerability Management

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0
Composite quality — 43.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 4.1 / 19
Developer Ergonomics 9.3 / 15
Access Clarity 5.9 / 15
Operational Transparency 4.4 / 10
Contract Governance 2.0 / 9
Discoverability 6.0 / 8
Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
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 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
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
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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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
Software Supply Chain (SBOM, Signing, Open Source Security) builds-on 47.9 1 -

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

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.

DevSecOps
tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 6

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

Black Duck SCA REST API

REST API for Black Duck SCA (Hub) — projects, versions, components, vulnerabilities, policies, scans, and reports. Each Black Duck server publishes its own OpenAPI 3 document at...

Black Duck Black Duck API

The Black Duck API API from Black Duck — 1 operation(s) for black duck api.

Black Duck Issues API

The Issues API from Black Duck — 1 operation(s) for issues.

Black Duck Projects API

The Projects API from Black Duck — 3 operation(s) for projects.

Black Duck Search API

The Search API from Black Duck — 1 operation(s) for search.

Black Duck Users API

The Users API from Black Duck — 1 operation(s) for users.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Black Duck Context

3 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Black Duck API Rules

12 rules · 10 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

GetApiV2IssuesSourcecodeinfoResponse

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutApiProjectsProjectidVersionsProjectversionidComponentsCom

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutApiProjects19A61354Doc25D408374Ba71F3Dd6983VersionsAbqwe3

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 4

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

Black Duck Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Black Duck Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Black Duck Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Black Duck Trust Center

SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 26262, CSA STAR Self-Assessment, TISAX (Assessment Level 2), TX-RAMP Level 2

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate
X-MCPServerCandidate
 MCPServer
MCPServer

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral
Spectral
 JSONLD
JSONLD
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 DataModel
DataModel
 Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs
 CLI
CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Compliance
Compliance
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 StatusPage
StatusPage
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Pricing
Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS
BlogRSS
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts
Hosts
 Vendors
Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: black-duck
name: Black Duck
description: Black Duck Software (formerly the Synopsys Software Integrity Group) is an application security company whose
  platform spans software composition analysis (SCA), static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security
  testing (DAST), interactive application security testing (IAST), and open-source license and vulnerability management. Its
  API-first products — Black Duck SCA (Hub), Polaris, Coverity, and Seeker — expose REST APIs, webhooks, native CI/CD plug-ins,
  and the Detect command-line scanner so teams can automate open-source discovery, policy enforcement, and risk remediation
  across build pipelines such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps. Each Black Duck server publishes its
  own OpenAPI 3 document and Postman collection at /api-doc, and first-party Python and Go client libraries plus the Detect
  CLI wrap the API surface. This profile was seeded as a general-catalyst portfolio lead and enriched by the API Evangelist
  pipeline.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/black-duck/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- general-catalyst
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-03 (modular-v1; was portfolio-lead)
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - 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: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.blackduck.com/content/dam/black-duck/style-guide/header/BlackDuckLogo.svg
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Application Security
- Software Composition Analysis
- SAST
- DAST
- Open Source Security
- DevSecOps
- Vulnerability Management
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://www.blackduck.com/feed
  type: BlogRSS
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/company/legal/privacy-policy.html
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/black-duck-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/black-duck-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/black-duck-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/black-duck-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/black-duck-conformance.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/black-duck-mcp.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/black-duck-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/black-duck-vendors.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/black-duck-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://documentation.blackduck.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://documentation.blackduck.com/category/api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://community.blackduck.com/s/article/Blackduck-API-documentation-swagger
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://community.blackduck.com/s/article/Black-Duck-HUB-How-to-view-the-API-documentation
- type: Support
  url: https://community.blackduck.com/s/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/blog.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/blackducksoftware
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/software-composition-analysis-tools/black-duck-sca/get-pricing.html
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/software-composition-analysis-tools/black-duck-sca/get-pricing.html
- type: Packages
  url: packages/black-duck-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/black-duck-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/black-duck-cli.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/black-duck-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/black-duck-authentication.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/black-duck-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://community.blackduck.com/s/black-duck-status
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/black-duck-changelog.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/black-duck-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/company/legal/security-commitments.html
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/black-duck-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/company/legal/security-commitments.html
apis:
- name: Black Duck SCA REST API
  description: REST API for Black Duck SCA (Hub) — projects, versions, components, vulnerabilities, policies, scans, and reports.
    Each Black Duck server publishes its own OpenAPI 3 document at /api-doc/openapi3-public.json and a Postman collection
    at /api-doc/postman-collection-public.json; authentication is via an API token exchanged for a bearer token.
  humanURL: https://documentation.blackduck.com/category/api
  baseURL: https://polaris.blackduck.com
  tags:
  - Application Security
  - Software Composition Analysis
  - Vulnerability Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://documentation.blackduck.com/category/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/black-duck-authentication.yml
  aid: black-duck:black-duck-sca-rest-api
- aid: black-duck:black-duck-black-duck-api-api
  name: Black Duck Black Duck API
  description: The Black Duck API API from Black Duck — 1 operation(s) for black duck api.
  humanURL: https://documentation.blackduck.com/category/api
  baseURL: https://polaris.blackduck.com
  tags:
  - Black Duck API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/black-duck-black-duck-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-get-api-v2-issues-sourcecodeinfo-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects19-a61354-doc25-d408374-ba71-f3-dd6983-versions-abqwe3-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects-projectid-versions-projectversionid-components-com-schema.json
- aid: black-duck:black-duck-issues-api
  name: Black Duck Issues API
  description: The Issues API from Black Duck — 1 operation(s) for issues.
  humanURL: https://documentation.blackduck.com/category/api
  baseURL: https://polaris.blackduck.com
  tags:
  - Issues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/black-duck-issues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-get-api-v2-issues-sourcecodeinfo-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects19-a61354-doc25-d408374-ba71-f3-dd6983-versions-abqwe3-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects-projectid-versions-projectversionid-components-com-schema.json
- aid: black-duck:black-duck-projects-api
  name: Black Duck Projects API
  description: The Projects API from Black Duck — 3 operation(s) for projects.
  humanURL: https://documentation.blackduck.com/category/api
  baseURL: https://polaris.blackduck.com
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/black-duck-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-get-api-v2-issues-sourcecodeinfo-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects19-a61354-doc25-d408374-ba71-f3-dd6983-versions-abqwe3-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects-projectid-versions-projectversionid-components-com-schema.json
- aid: black-duck:black-duck-search-api
  name: Black Duck Search API
  description: The Search API from Black Duck — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://documentation.blackduck.com/category/api
  baseURL: https://polaris.blackduck.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/black-duck-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-get-api-v2-issues-sourcecodeinfo-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects19-a61354-doc25-d408374-ba71-f3-dd6983-versions-abqwe3-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects-projectid-versions-projectversionid-components-com-schema.json
- aid: black-duck:black-duck-users-api
  name: Black Duck Users API
  description: The Users API from Black Duck — 1 operation(s) for users.
  humanURL: https://documentation.blackduck.com/category/api
  baseURL: https://polaris.blackduck.com
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/black-duck-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-get-api-v2-issues-sourcecodeinfo-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects19-a61354-doc25-d408374-ba71-f3-dd6983-versions-abqwe3-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/black-duck-put-api-projects-projectid-versions-projectversionid-components-com-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract found despite API documentation at https://documentation.blackduck.com/category/api.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.blackduck.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-10-03'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-03'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

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