Cequence Security

Cequence Security (cequence.ai) is an application, API, and AI protection vendor whose Unified API Protection (UAP) platform discovers documented, undocumented, shadow and third-party APIs, builds a runtime API inventory, scores risk and compliance, tests APIs in CI/CD, and mitigates bot, fraud and business-logic abuse at runtime. Its newer Cequence AI Gateway makes existing enterprise applications agent-ready by turning REST APIs (from an uploaded OpenAPI spec) and third-party remote MCP servers into governed Model Context Protocol endpoints, with SSO/OAuth 2.1 inbound authentication, credential injection outbound, per-tool rate limiting, DLP redaction, agent personas, a skill registry and SIEM audit export. Cequence publishes a first-party hosted MCP server for managing the AI Gateway itself, an npm CLI (@cequenceai/mcp-cli), a Zendesk-hosted product knowledge base with dated release notes, and a trust center carrying SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS v4.0.1 and ISO 27001:2022 attestations.

Cequence Security publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include API Security, AI Gateway, MCP, Agentic AI, and Bot Management.

Cequence Security’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, changelog, CLI, and 20 more developer resources.

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36.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

API Security AI Gateway MCP Agentic AI Bot Management API Discovery API Governance Fraud DetectionWAAPCybersecurity API Testing agent-native

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 36.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20

Access Clarity 7.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 7.9 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 12/100 · 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 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 1

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

Cequence AI Gateway

Enterprise AI Gateway that makes applications agent-ready through governed Model Context Protocol integration. Register a REST API from its OpenAPI spec (or proxy a third-party ...

MCP Servers 1

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

Cequence AI Gateway MCP

First-party, Cequence-hosted MCP server to manage the AI Gateway from any agent — create MCP servers, agent personas, skills, and DLP policies. Provisioned automatically for eve...

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

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

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Compliance

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cequence-security
name: Cequence Security
description: Cequence Security (cequence.ai) is an application, API, and AI protection vendor whose Unified API Protection
  (UAP) platform discovers documented, undocumented, shadow and third-party APIs, builds a runtime API inventory, scores risk
  and compliance, tests APIs in CI/CD, and mitigates bot, fraud and business-logic abuse at runtime. Its newer Cequence AI
  Gateway makes existing enterprise applications agent-ready by turning REST APIs (from an uploaded OpenAPI spec) and third-party
  remote MCP servers into governed Model Context Protocol endpoints, with SSO/OAuth 2.1 inbound authentication, credential
  injection outbound, per-tool rate limiting, DLP redaction, agent personas, a skill registry and SIEM audit export. Cequence
  publishes a first-party hosted MCP server for managing the AI Gateway itself, an npm CLI (@cequenceai/mcp-cli), a Zendesk-hosted
  product knowledge base with dated release notes, and a trust center carrying SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS v4.0.1 and ISO 27001:2022
  attestations.
image: https://www.cequence.ai/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Cequence_logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cequence-security/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- API Security
- AI Gateway
- MCP
- Agentic AI
- Bot Management
- API Discovery
- API Governance
- Fraud Detection
- WAAP
- Cybersecurity
- API Testing
- agent-native
tags_raw:
- api-security
- ai-gateway
- model-context-protocol
- agentic-ai
- bot-management
- api-discovery
- api-governance
- fraud-detection
- waap
- cybersecurity
- api-testing
- agent-native
apis:
- name: Cequence AI Gateway
  description: Enterprise AI Gateway that makes applications agent-ready through governed Model Context Protocol integration.
    Register a REST API from its OpenAPI spec (or proxy a third-party remote MCP server) and the gateway publishes it as an
    MCP endpoint with inbound SSO/OAuth/API-key/JWT authentication, outbound credential injection (OAuth 2.1 authorization
    or client-credentials, API key, bearer, JWT bearer, basic, passthrough), per-tool rate limiting, DLP redaction, circuit
    breaking, agent personas that compose tools across servers, a SKILL.md skill registry, and audit export to Splunk HEC,
    Datadog, OTLP or syslog. Cequence also operates a first-party hosted MCP server, provisioned for every tenant, that manages
    the gateway itself from any agent.
  humanURL: https://docs.aigateway.cequence.ai/docs/introduction
  baseURL: https://aigateway.cequence.ai
  tags:
  - AI Gateway
  - MCP
  - Agentic AI
  - API Security
  - API Governance
  - agent-native
  tags_raw:
  - ai-gateway
  - model-context-protocol
  - agentic-ai
  - api-security
  - api-governance
  - agent-native
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aigateway.cequence.ai/docs/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aigateway.cequence.ai/docs/remote-mcp-servers/cequence-ai-gateway
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.aigateway.cequence.ai/docs/getstarted
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/cequence-security-mcp.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aigateway.cequence.ai/docs/remote-mcp-servers/cequence-ai-gateway
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cequence-security-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cequence-security-conventions.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/cequence-security-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cequence-security-problem-types.yml
  - type: CLI
    url: cli/cequence-security-cli.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/cequence-security-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cequence.ai/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://aigateway.cequence.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aigateway.cequence.ai/docs/introduction
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.aigateway.cequence.ai/docs/remote-mcp-servers/cequence-ai-gateway
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.aigateway.cequence.ai/docs/getstarted
- type: Support
  url: https://helpdesk.cequence.ai/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cequence.ai/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cequenceai
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cequence.ai/legal/saas-ai-gateway-end-user-license-agreement/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cequence.ai/privacy/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.cequence.ai/compliance/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cequence-security-trust-center.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.cequence.ai/responsible-disclosure-policy/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cequence-security-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cequence-security-domain-security.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/cequence-security-changelog.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/cequence-security-mcp.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cequence-security-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/cequence-security-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cequence-security-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cequence-security-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cequence-security-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cequence-security-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cequence-security-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cequence-security-conformance.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cequence-security-llms.txt

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