ByteAsk

ByteAsk is an AI coding agent for C and C++ that runs in the terminal. It verifies its own work, offers a CLI, supports self‑hosted models, and provides headless CI integration. The service includes installation scripts for Linux/macOS and Windows, documentation, pricing, and a demo booking page.

ByteAsk publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including public status endpoints Api API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Coding, C++, Terminal, and Automation.

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

ByteAsk’s developer surface includes changelog, getting-started guide, documentation, pricing, GitHub presence, and 26 more developer resources.

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40.8/100 developing Agent 45/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemium

1 published contract 1 Agent Skills

Artificial Intelligence Coding C++Terminal Automation

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 40.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.9 / 17

Access Clarity 8.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 5.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 45/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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 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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% 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)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Developer Ergonomics scores 17.1 — up to +16.6 composite points
Contract Quality scores 56.1 — up to +11.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 47.4 — up to +10.5 composite points

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Standards implemented 3

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.

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

ByteAsk Public Status API

Read‑only public status endpoints providing liveness and basic service info.

ByteAsk public status endpoints Api API

The three unauthenticated, read-only JSON endpoints that byteask.ai serves: a liveness probe, the service status shown in the site footer, and package download counts. This is n...

Agent Skills 1

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

getting-started

AGENT SKILL

ByteAsk API pricing

Prices published by ByteAsk, read 2026-11-03 from byteask.ai/pricing.

Plan	Price
Free	$0
Pro	$16 Per month with annual subscription discount ($192 billed up front). $20 if billed mont
Max	$100/month
Ultra	$200/month

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Byteask Ai Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Byteask Ai Context

4 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

ByteAsk API Rules

47 rules · 45 errors 1 warnings 1 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.

Byteask Ai Openapi Overlay

0 actions · update

UNRECORDED

JSON Schema 3

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

Health

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stats

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Status

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Byteask Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Byteask Ai Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

LLMs

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Conformance

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Vendors

Leadership

Installation

Source (apis.yml)

aid: byteask-ai
name: ByteAsk
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  probe_state: gated
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://byteask.ai/og-assets/og-code-home.png
description: ByteAsk is an AI coding agent for C and C++ that runs in the terminal. It verifies its own work, offers a CLI,
  supports self‑hosted models, and provides headless CI integration. The service includes installation scripts for Linux/macOS
  and Windows, documentation, pricing, and a demo booking page.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/byteask-ai/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-03 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-03'
modified: '2026-11-03'
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Coding
- C++
- Terminal
- Automation
tags_raw:
- AI
- Coding
- C++
- Terminal
- Automation
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/byteask-ai-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/byteask-ai-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/byteask-ai-vocabulary.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/byteask-ai-conformance.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/byteask-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/byteask-ai-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/byteask-ai-changelog.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/byteask-ai-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/byteask-ai-problem-types.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/byteask-ai-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/byteask-ai-security.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/byteask-ai-docs-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/byteask-ai-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/byteask-ai-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/byteask-ai-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://byteask.ai/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://byteask.ai/privacy
- type: Leadership
  url: https://byteask.ai/team
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://byteask.ai/changelog
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://byteask.ai/context/setup
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/byteask-ai-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/byteask-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://byteask.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://byteask.ai/docs/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://byteask.ai/pricing
- type: Installation
  url: https://byteask.ai/install
- type: LLMs
  url: https://byteask.ai/llms.txt
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/byteask
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/byteask/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/ByteAsk
apis:
- name: ByteAsk Public Status API
  description: Read‑only public status endpoints providing liveness and basic service info.
  humanURL: https://byteask.ai/docs/
  baseURL: https://byteask.ai
  aid: byteask-ai:byteask-public-status-api
- aid: byteask-ai:byteask-public-status-endpoints-api-api
  name: ByteAsk public status endpoints Api API
  description: 'The three unauthenticated, read-only JSON endpoints that byteask.ai serves: a liveness probe, the service
    status shown in the

    site footer, and package download counts. This is not the ByteAsk product API. The ByteAsk CLI talks to a private service
    that is not documented

    or offered for third-party us'
  humanURL: https://byteask.ai/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://byteask.ai
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/byteask-ai-api-openapi.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/byteask-ai-status-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/byteask-ai-stats-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/byteask-ai-health-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: partner-login
  method: derived
  generated: '2026-11-03'
  generator: derive-coverage.py (pre-flight evidence)
  detail: the company serves an API surface but requires credentials before any description of it can be read
  evidence:
  - url: https://byteask.ai/openapi.json
    status: null
  - url: https://docs.byteask.ai/openapi.json
    status: null
  - url: https://app.byteask.ai/mcp
    status: 401
  - url: https://byteask.ai/
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-03'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 29
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

ByteAsk API — frequently asked questions

Does ByteAsk have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from ByteAsk, including ByteAsk Public Status API and ByteAsk public status endpoints Api API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the ByteAsk API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for ByteAsk, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the ByteAsk API cost?

ByteAsk publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0 as of 2026-11-03. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for ByteAsk, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the ByteAsk API ready for AI agents?

ByteAsk has a Kin Score of 40.8 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 44.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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