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 publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Application Security, Software Composition Analysis, and SAST.

Black Duck’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 19 more developer resources.

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33.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Enterprise Application Security Software Composition Analysis SAST DAST Open Source Security DevSecOps Vulnerability Management

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 33.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 12.4 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.8 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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APIs 1

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...

MCP Servers 1

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

Black Duck MCP Server

MCP SERVER

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

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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

DomainSecurity

Authentication

TrustCenter

Compliance

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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: stub
x-tier-reason: 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: '2026-07-18'
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
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
common:
- 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: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/company/legal/website-terms-of-use.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.blackduck.com/company/legal/privacy.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
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/black-duck-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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