Chef Software

Chef Software is the DevOps automation company behind Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, Chef Habitat, and Chef Automate, now part of Progress Software. Chef pioneered infrastructure-as-code, letting teams define, deploy, and continuously enforce the configuration, compliance, and security posture of servers and applications across data centers and cloud at any scale. Chef Automate exposes a REST API (generated from gRPC service definitions via grpc-gateway) for managing compliance reporting, node management, configuration management, secrets, data feeds, event feeds, IAM (users, teams, tokens, policies, rules), and the application service catalog. Authentication is via API tokens presented in the api-token HTTP header. Chef also ships a deep open-source ecosystem of Ruby client tooling (chef-client, InSpec, Ohai, Berkshelf, chef-cli, knife) distributed on RubyGems, all developed in the open on the chef GitHub org.

Chef Software publishes 30 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including ApplicationsService API, Authorization API, Cds API, and 27 more. Tagged areas include Company, DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, and Compliance.

The Chef Software catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Chef Software’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, engineering blog, support, pricing, and 32 more developer resources.

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68.3/100 exemplar ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Heartbeat 95/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessPaid

24 published contracts 4 Agent Skills

Company DevOps Infrastructure Automation Configuration Management Compliance Security Infrastructure as Code CloudContinuous Compliance

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Cybersecurity Management

BC-620

PoliciesRolesTeamsTokensUsers

GET /apis/iam/v2/policies POST /apis/iam/v2/policies POST /apis/iam/v2/policies/{id}/members:add GET /apis/iam/v2/roles

Information Technology Management

BC-600

ConfigMgmtInfraProxy

GET /api/v0/cfgmgmt/nodes GET /api/v0/cfgmgmt/nodes/{node_id}/runs GET /api/v0/infra/servers POST /api/v0/infra/servers/{server_id}/orgs

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 68.3/100 · exemplar

Contract Quality 8.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 11.2 / 15

Access Clarity 15.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 5.9 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.9 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 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 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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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
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)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 43.8 — up to +14.1 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 60.5 — up to +5.1 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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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.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Configuration-Management Content Registries (Ansible Galaxy, Chef Supermarket)	gravity	51.8	-	-
Jenkins Plugins + CD Foundation Landscape	gravity	51.8	-	-

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 30

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

Chef Software ApplicationsService API

The ApplicationsService API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for applicationsservice.

Chef Software Authorization API

The Authorization API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for authorization.

Chef Software Cds API

The Cds API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for cds.

Chef Software ChefIngester API

The ChefIngester API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for chefingester.

Chef Software Comp_Assets API

The Comp_Assets API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for comp_assets.

Chef Software ConfigMgmt API

The ConfigMgmt API from Chef Software — 23 operation(s) for configmgmt.

Chef Software DatafeedService API

The DatafeedService API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for datafeedservice.

Chef Software DataLifecycle API

The DataLifecycle API from Chef Software — 15 operation(s) for datalifecycle.

Chef Software EventFeedService API

The EventFeedService API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for eventfeedservice.

Chef Software Hidden API

The hidden API from Chef Software — 5 operation(s) for hidden.

Chef Software InfraProxy API

The InfraProxy API from Chef Software — 36 operation(s) for infraproxy.

Chef Software JobsService API

The JobsService API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for jobsservice.

Chef Software NodeManagerService API

The NodeManagerService API from Chef Software — 9 operation(s) for nodemanagerservice.

Chef Software NodesService API

The NodesService API from Chef Software — 7 operation(s) for nodesservice.

Chef Software Policies API

The policies API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for policies.

Chef Software ProfilesService API

The ProfilesService API from Chef Software — 5 operation(s) for profilesservice.

Chef Software Projects API

The projects API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for projects.

Chef Software ReportingService API

The ReportingService API from Chef Software — 12 operation(s) for reportingservice.

Chef Software ReportManagerService API

The ReportManagerService API from Chef Software — 1 operation(s) for reportmanagerservice.

Chef Software Retention API

The retention API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for retention.

Chef Software Roles API

The roles API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for roles.

Chef Software Rules API

The rules API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for rules.

Chef Software SecretsService API

The SecretsService API from Chef Software — 3 operation(s) for secretsservice.

Chef Software Service Groups API

The service_groups API from Chef Software — 9 operation(s) for service_groups.

Chef Software StatsService API

The StatsService API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for statsservice.

Chef Software Teams API

The teams API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for teams.

Chef Software Tokens API

The tokens API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for tokens.

Chef Software Users API

The users API from Chef Software — 3 operation(s) for users.

Chef Software UserSettingsService API

The UserSettingsService API from Chef Software — 1 operation(s) for usersettingsservice.

Chef Software Job Scheduler API

The Job Scheduler API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for job scheduler.

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Postman Collections 30

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService Authorization API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService Cds API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ChefIngester API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService Comp_Assets API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ConfigMgmt API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService DatafeedService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService DataLifecycle API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService EventFeedService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService hidden API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService InfraProxy API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService JobScheduler API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService JobsService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService NodeManagerService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService NodesService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService policies API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ProfilesService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService projects API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ReportingService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ReportManagerService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService retention API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService roles API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService rules API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService SecretsService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService service_groups API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService StatsService API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService teams API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService tokens API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService users API

POSTMAN

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService UserSettingsService API

POSTMAN

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Open Collections 30

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService Authorization API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService Cds API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ChefIngester API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService Comp_Assets API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ConfigMgmt API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService DatafeedService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService DataLifecycle API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService EventFeedService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService hidden API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService InfraProxy API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService JobScheduler API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService JobsService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService NodeManagerService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService NodesService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService policies API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ProfilesService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService projects API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ReportingService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService ReportManagerService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService retention API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService roles API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService rules API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService SecretsService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService service_groups API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService StatsService API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService teams API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService tokens API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService users API

OPEN COLLECTION

external/applications/applications.proto ApplicationsService UserSettingsService API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Agent Skills 4

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

Configure a Chef Automate data-feed destination

AGENT SKILL

Manage Chef Automate API tokens

AGENT SKILL

Read Chef Automate compliance reports

AGENT SKILL

Schedule a Chef Automate compliance scan

AGENT SKILL

Chef Software API pricing

Prices published by Chef Software, read 2026-10-28 from www.chef.io/how-to-buy.

Plan	Price
Business	$59 per node, per year Includes: Node Management, Job Orchestration, Configuration Management, Standard support; Monthly Job Runs (Po
Enterprise	$189 per node, per year Includes: Adds Compliance Audit, Continuous Compliance; Standard support
Enterprise Plus	Contact us for a customized quote. Includes: Adds Cloud Security Posture Management, Application Delivery, Premium support, Concurrent Jobs 50

Plan details, limits and sources →

Billed by: node · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Chef Software Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Chef Software

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Chef Software Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

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

Chef Software Data Feed Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Chef Software API Rules

40 rules · 28 errors 9 warnings 3 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.

Chef Software Iam V2 Tokens Overlay

3 actions · documentation · chef-software-iam-v2-tokens-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 4

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

Chef Software Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Chef Software Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Chef Software Vulnerability Disclosure

contact published

SECURITY

Chef Software Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Chef Software Agentic Access

256 operations · 131 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop

256 operations · 131 acting

AGENTIC

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 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Webhooks

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Compliance

TrustCenter

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Protobuf

Protobuf

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: chef-software
name: Chef Software
description: Chef Software is the DevOps automation company behind Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, Chef Habitat, and Chef Automate,
  now part of Progress Software. Chef pioneered infrastructure-as-code, letting teams define, deploy, and continuously enforce
  the configuration, compliance, and security posture of servers and applications across data centers and cloud at any scale.
  Chef Automate exposes a REST API (generated from gRPC service definitions via grpc-gateway) for managing compliance reporting,
  node management, configuration management, secrets, data feeds, event feeds, IAM (users, teams, tokens, policies, rules),
  and the application service catalog. Authentication is via API tokens presented in the api-token HTTP header. Chef also
  ships a deep open-source ecosystem of Ruby client tooling (chef-client, InSpec, Ohai, Berkshelf, chef-cli, knife) distributed
  on RubyGems, all developed in the open on the chef GitHub org.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.chef.io/hubfs/chef-logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chef-software/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- DevOps
- Infrastructure Automation
- Configuration Management
- Compliance
- Security
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud
- Continuous Compliance
tags_raw:
- Company
- DevOps
- Infrastructure Automation
- Configuration Management
- Compliance
- Security
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud
- Continuous Compliance
- Node Management
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-applicationsservice-api
  name: Chef Software ApplicationsService API
  description: The ApplicationsService API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for applicationsservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - ApplicationsService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-applicationsservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-authorization-api
  name: Chef Software Authorization API
  description: The Authorization API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for authorization.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Authorization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-authorization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-cds-api
  name: Chef Software Cds API
  description: The Cds API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for cds.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - CDS
  tags_raw:
  - Cds
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-cds-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-chefingester-api
  name: Chef Software ChefIngester API
  description: The ChefIngester API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for chefingester.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - ChefIngester
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-chefingester-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-comp-assets-api
  name: Chef Software Comp_Assets API
  description: The Comp_Assets API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for comp_assets.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Comp_Assets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-comp-assets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-configmgmt-api
  name: Chef Software ConfigMgmt API
  description: The ConfigMgmt API from Chef Software — 23 operation(s) for configmgmt.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - ConfigMgmt
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-configmgmt-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-datafeedservice-api
  name: Chef Software DatafeedService API
  description: The DatafeedService API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for datafeedservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - DatafeedService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-datafeedservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-datalifecycle-api
  name: Chef Software DataLifecycle API
  description: The DataLifecycle API from Chef Software — 15 operation(s) for datalifecycle.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - DataLifecycle
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-datalifecycle-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-eventfeedservice-api
  name: Chef Software EventFeedService API
  description: The EventFeedService API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for eventfeedservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - EventFeedService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-eventfeedservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-hidden-api
  name: Chef Software Hidden API
  description: The hidden API from Chef Software — 5 operation(s) for hidden.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - hidden
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-hidden-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-infraproxy-api
  name: Chef Software InfraProxy API
  description: The InfraProxy API from Chef Software — 36 operation(s) for infraproxy.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - InfraProxy
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-infraproxy-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-jobsservice-api
  name: Chef Software JobsService API
  description: The JobsService API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for jobsservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - JobsService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-jobsservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-nodemanagerservice-api
  name: Chef Software NodeManagerService API
  description: The NodeManagerService API from Chef Software — 9 operation(s) for nodemanagerservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - NodeManagerService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-nodemanagerservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-nodesservice-api
  name: Chef Software NodesService API
  description: The NodesService API from Chef Software — 7 operation(s) for nodesservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - NodesService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-nodesservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-policies-api
  name: Chef Software Policies API
  description: The policies API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for policies.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Policies
  tags_raw:
  - policies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-policies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-profilesservice-api
  name: Chef Software ProfilesService API
  description: The ProfilesService API from Chef Software — 5 operation(s) for profilesservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - ProfilesService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-profilesservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-projects-api
  name: Chef Software Projects API
  description: The projects API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for projects.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-reportingservice-api
  name: Chef Software ReportingService API
  description: The ReportingService API from Chef Software — 12 operation(s) for reportingservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - ReportingService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-reportingservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-reportmanagerservice-api
  name: Chef Software ReportManagerService API
  description: The ReportManagerService API from Chef Software — 1 operation(s) for reportmanagerservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - ReportManagerService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-reportmanagerservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-retention-api
  name: Chef Software Retention API
  description: The retention API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for retention.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Retention
  tags_raw:
  - retention
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-retention-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-roles-api
  name: Chef Software Roles API
  description: The roles API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for roles.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Roles
  tags_raw:
  - roles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-roles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-rules-api
  name: Chef Software Rules API
  description: The rules API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for rules.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Rules
  tags_raw:
  - rules
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-rules-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-secretsservice-api
  name: Chef Software SecretsService API
  description: The SecretsService API from Chef Software — 3 operation(s) for secretsservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - SecretsService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-secretsservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-service-groups-api
  name: Chef Software Service Groups API
  description: The service_groups API from Chef Software — 9 operation(s) for service_groups.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Service Groups
  tags_raw:
  - service_groups
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-service-groups-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-statsservice-api
  name: Chef Software StatsService API
  description: The StatsService API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for statsservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - StatsService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-statsservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-teams-api
  name: Chef Software Teams API
  description: The teams API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for teams.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Team
  tags_raw:
  - teams
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-teams-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-tokens-api
  name: Chef Software Tokens API
  description: The tokens API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for tokens.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Tokens
  tags_raw:
  - tokens
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-tokens-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-users-api
  name: Chef Software Users API
  description: The users API from Chef Software — 3 operation(s) for users.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-usersettingsservice-api
  name: Chef Software UserSettingsService API
  description: The UserSettingsService API from Chef Software — 1 operation(s) for usersettingsservice.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - UserSettingsService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-usersettingsservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
- aid: chef-software:chef-software-job-scheduler-api
  name: Chef Software Job Scheduler API
  description: The Job Scheduler API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for job scheduler.
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.chef.io/api/v0
  tags:
  - Job Scheduler
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-software-job-scheduler-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/chef-software-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.chef.io/
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/chef-software-capability-edges.yml
  name: Chef Software Business Capability Map
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/chef-software/overview
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.chef.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.chef.io/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/install/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/chef-software-authentication.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.chef.io/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://community.chef.io/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/chef
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.chef.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.chef.io/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.chef.io/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.chef.io/privacy-policy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.chef.io
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.progress.com/trust-center
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/chef-software-trust-center.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/chef-software-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/chef-software-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/chef-software-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/chef-software-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/chef-software-cli.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/chef-software-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/chef-software-llms.txt
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/chef-software-iam-v2-tokens.proto
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/chef-software-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/chef-software-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/chef-software-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/chef-software-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/chef-software-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/chef-software-data-model.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chef-software-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/chef-software-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/chef-software-changelog.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/chef-software-data-feed-webhooks.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/chef-software-iam-v2-tokens-overlay.yaml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Chef Software API — frequently asked questions

Does Chef Software have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 30 APIs from Chef Software, including Chef Software ApplicationsService API, Chef Software Authorization API and Chef Software Cds API, and 27 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Chef Software API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 30 OpenAPI specifications for Chef Software, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Chef Software API?

Chef Software uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Chef Software Authentication.

How much does the Chef Software API cost?

Chef Software publishes its prices; its Business plan is $59 per node, per year as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Chef Software, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Chef Software API ready for AI agents?

Chef Software has a Kin Score of 68.3 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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