Cakewalk

Cakewalk is the agentic access management platform for fast-moving companies, combining a granular identity governance and administration (IGA) platform with AI-driven workflows. Cakewalk governs access for both human identities and AI agents: its MCP Gateway routes every AI agent tool call through a runtime policy engine with credential mediation, least-privilege enforcement, and a complete audit trail, while its human access management handles joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle, access requests, access reviews, and auto-provisioning via its Agent Cake provisioning agent. The Cakewalk Open API and hosted MCP server let developers manage users, groups, work apps, accesses, requests, and tasks programmatically. Founded in 2022 and backed by Seedcamp, Fly Ventures, and Possible Ventures.

Cakewalk is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance, AI Agents, and Security.

The Cakewalk catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Cakewalk’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, signup flow, YouTube channel, and 22 more developer resources.

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41.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 51/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers 4 Agent Skills

Company Identity and Access Management Identity Governance AI Agents Security Access Control MCP Provisioning SaaS Management Authentication

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 41.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.0 / 17

Access Clarity 6.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 51/100 · agent ready

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 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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 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):

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
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's

3 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 39.0 — up to +15.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 35.1 — up to +13.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 39.5 — up to +12.1 composite points

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Standards implemented 4

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.

IAM

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

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

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

Cakewalk Open API

The Cakewalk Open API is a REST API for building custom access-governance workflows and integrations. It exposes users, user groups, work apps, accesses, permission levels, requ...

MCP Servers 1

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

Cakewalk MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.getcakewalk.io over HTTP requiring OAuth; 12 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 4

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

Audit which apps a user can access

AGENT SKILL

Grant a user access to an app

AGENT SKILL

Remove a user's access to an app

AGENT SKILL

Review and approve or decline an access task

AGENT SKILL

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cakewalk Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Cakewalk Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

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

Cakewalk Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Cakewalk Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Cakewalk Trust Center

ISO 27001:2022

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Cakewalk Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

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

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Webhooks

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Compliance

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Blog

BlogRSS

Website

Blog

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cakewalk
name: Cakewalk
description: 'Cakewalk is the agentic access management platform for fast-moving companies, combining a granular identity
  governance and administration (IGA) platform with AI-driven workflows. Cakewalk governs access for both human identities
  and AI agents: its MCP Gateway routes every AI agent tool call through a runtime policy engine with credential mediation,
  least-privilege enforcement, and a complete audit trail, while its human access management handles joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle,
  access requests, access reviews, and auto-provisioning via its Agent Cake provisioning agent. The Cakewalk Open API and
  hosted MCP server let developers manage users, groups, work apps, accesses, requests, and tasks programmatically. Founded
  in 2022 and backed by Seedcamp, Fly Ventures, and Possible Ventures.'
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
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.getcakewalk.io/favicon-v2.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cakewalk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- seedcamp
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
x-docs-platform: gitbook
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-21
tags:
- Company
- Identity and Access Management
- Identity Governance
- AI Agents
- Security
- Access Control
- MCP
- Provisioning
- SaaS Management
- Authentication
tags_raw:
- Company
- Access Management
- Identity Governance
- IGA
- AI Agents
- Security
- Access Control
- MCP
- Provisioning
- SaaS Management
- Authentication
apis:
- name: Cakewalk Open API
  description: The Cakewalk Open API is a REST API for building custom access-governance workflows and integrations. It exposes
    users, user groups, work apps, accesses, permission levels, requests, tasks, policies, and access reviews. Authentication
    uses X-API-KEY and X-API-SECRET headers; responses use cursor-based JSON:API-style pagination and RFC 7807 ProblemDetails
    errors, with a 1,000 requests-per-minute rate limit. A hosted MCP server and signed webhooks complete the developer surface.
  humanURL: https://www.cakewalk.security/open-api
  baseURL: https://open-api.getcakewalk.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Identity and Access Management
  - Identity Governance
  - AI Agents
  tags_raw:
  - Access Management
  - Identity Governance
  - AI Agents
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cakewalk.security/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.cakewalk.security/docs/open-api-and-mcp/api-reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.cakewalk.security/docs/open-api-and-mcp/getting-started
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cakewalk-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/cakewalk-scopes.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cakewalk-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cakewalk-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/cakewalk-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/cakewalk-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cakewalk-conformance.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/cakewalk-rate-limits.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/cakewalk-mcp.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/cakewalk-webhooks.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/cakewalk-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://www.cakewalk.security/identity-governance-for-engineering-leaders
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.cakewalk.security/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cakewalk.security/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.cakewalk.security/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cakewalk.security/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.cakewalk.security/docs/open-api-and-mcp/api-reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.cakewalk.security/docs/open-api-and-mcp/getting-started
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cakewalk-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/cakewalk-scopes.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/cakewalk-mcp.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cakewalk-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cakewalk-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cakewalk-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cakewalk-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cakewalk-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/cakewalk-trust-center.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cakewalk-trust-center.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cakewalk-rate-limits.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/cakewalk-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cakewalk-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cakewalk-domain-security.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cakewalk.security/resources
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cakewalk-security
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cakewalk.security/privacy-policy
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.cakewalk.security/book-demo
- type: Login
  url: https://app.getcakewalk.io/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cakewalk-security/
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@getcakewalk
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Cakewalk API — frequently asked questions

Does Cakewalk have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Cakewalk, including Cakewalk Open API.

How do I authenticate with the Cakewalk API?

Cakewalk documents its authentication (apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cakewalk Authentication.

Does Cakewalk have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Cakewalk: Remote MCP server at mcp.getcakewalk.io over HTTP requiring OAuth; 12 tools listed.

Is the Cakewalk API ready for AI agents?

Cakewalk has a Kin Score of 41.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 50.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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