Cisco ACI

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is Cisco's data-center SDN fabric, programmed through the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and its object model, the Management Information Tree (MIT). Every APIC GUI, CLI and SDK action is executed through one REST interface: HTTPS requests to /api/mo/.json and /api/class/.json on the customer-operated controller, authenticated with a cookie-based aaaLogin session token and refreshed with aaaRefresh. The API is model-driven rather than OpenAPI-described — Cisco publishes an exhaustive object-model reference (the APIC Management Information Model Reference) plus a REST API configuration guide, a WebSocket (RFC 6455) event-subscription surface, an Ansible collection, a Terraform provider, a Python SDK (Cobra) and a public Postman workspace, but no anonymously fetchable OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or GraphQL contract.

Cisco ACI publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include SDN, Data-Center, Networking, Fabric, and Automation.

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

Cisco ACI’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 35 more developer resources.

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55.4/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 50/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
SDNData-CenterNetworkingFabricAutomationEnterpriseNetwork AutomationInfrastructureControllerREST API

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 55.4/100 · strong
Contract Quality 11.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 18.1 / 20
Access Clarity 7.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Contract Governance 2.2 / 12
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 50/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 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 3 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

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

Cisco APIC REST API

The Application Policy Infrastructure Controller REST API is the single programmatic interface into the ACI Management Information Tree. GET, POST and DELETE against /api/mo/

MCP Servers 1

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

Community MCP Server for Cisco ACI

A stand-alone FastMCP server that sits between an MCP client and a customer's Cisco APIC controller, exposing ACI policy and fabric operations as MCP tools. It authenticates to ...

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cisco Aci Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cisco Aci Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

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

Cisco Aci Event Subscriptions

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 4

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

Cisco Aci Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Cisco Aci Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Cisco Aci Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Cisco Aci Trust Center

Common Criteria EAL2+ (ALC_FLR.2), Common Criteria EAL2, FIPS 140 (certificate 4747), FIPS 140

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 Portal
Portal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 Idempotency
Idempotency
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 DataModel
DataModel
 Webhooks
Webhooks
 Conformance
Conformance

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Build 7

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Postman
Postman
 SourceCode
SourceCode
 ToolCrosswalk
ToolCrosswalk
 Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs
 CLI
CLI

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Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 Authentication
Authentication
 Security
Security
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Compliance
Compliance

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Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 RateLimits
RateLimits
 Deprecation
Deprecation
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Plans
Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany
ParentCompany
 Ansible
Ansible
 Terraform
Terraform

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: cisco-aci
name: Cisco ACI
description: 'Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is Cisco''s data-center SDN fabric, programmed through the Application
  Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and its object model, the Management Information Tree (MIT). Every APIC GUI, CLI
  and SDK action is executed through one REST interface: HTTPS requests to /api/mo/<dn>.json and /api/class/<class>.json on
  the customer-operated controller, authenticated with a cookie-based aaaLogin session token and refreshed with aaaRefresh.
  The API is model-driven rather than OpenAPI-described — Cisco publishes an exhaustive object-model reference (the APIC Management
  Information Model Reference) plus a REST API configuration guide, a WebSocket (RFC 6455) event-subscription surface, an
  Ansible collection, a Terraform provider, a Python SDK (Cobra) and a public Postman workspace, but no anonymously fetchable
  OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or GraphQL contract.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cisco.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cisco-aci/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consumer
x-type: company
x-source: cisco-family-buildout:2026-08-19
x-parent: cisco
x-relationship: product
x-contract-status: none
x-contract-note: No anonymously fetchable machine-readable contract found (probed 2026-08-19, real 404s). ACI is model-driven
  through the APIC object model rather than OpenAPI-described. API Evangelist has not authored a substitute.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-19'
modified: '2026-08-19'
tags:
- SDN
- Data-Center
- Networking
- Fabric
- Automation
- Enterprise
- Network Automation
- Infrastructure
- Controller
- REST API
tags_raw:
- SDN
- Data Center
- Networking
- Fabric
- Automation
- Enterprise
- Network Automation
- Infrastructure
- Controller
- REST API
apis:
- aid: cisco-aci:cisco-apic-rest-api
  name: Cisco APIC REST API
  description: The Application Policy Infrastructure Controller REST API is the single programmatic interface into the ACI
    Management Information Tree. GET, POST and DELETE against /api/mo/<distinguished-name>.json (managed-object addressing)
    or /api/class/<class-name>.json (class queries) read and write policy — tenants, application profiles, EPGs, bridge domains,
    VRFs, contracts, filters, L3Outs — plus statistics, faults and audit records. Query scoping, filtering, ordering and pagination
    are expressed as URI parameters (query-target, target-subtree-class, rsp-subtree, order-by, page, page-size). The same
    endpoints support ?subscription=yes to open a WebSocket push-notification channel.
  humanURL: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/aci/
  baseURL: https://{apic-hostname}/api
  tags:
  - SDN
  - Data-Center
  - Networking
  - Fabric
  - Automation
  tags_raw:
  - SDN
  - Data Center
  - Networking
  - Fabric
  - Automation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/dcn/aci/apic/all/apic-rest-api-configuration-guide/cisco-apic-rest-api-configuration-guide-42x-and-later.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.cisco.com/site/apic-mim-ref-api/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/aci/getting-started/
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cisco-aci-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cisco-aci-domain-security.yml
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/cisco/
  name: Cisco
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: cisco-family:2026-08-19
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.cisco.com/site/aci/
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.cisco.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/dcn/aci/apic/all/apic-rest-api-configuration-guide/cisco-apic-rest-api-configuration-guide-42x-and-later.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.cisco.com/site/apic-mim-ref-api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/aci/getting-started/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/index.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/aci
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/legal/terms-conditions.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/legal/privacy-full.html
- type: Postman
  url: https://www.postman.com/cisco-dcn-marketing-enablement/cisco-aci-public/overview
- type: Ansible
  url: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ansible-aci
- type: Terraform
  url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/CiscoDevNet/aci/latest
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/mcp_server_cisco_aci_community
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/cisco-aci-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/cisco-aci-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cisco-aci-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/cisco-aci-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cisco-aci-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/cisco-aci-security.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cisco-aci-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cisco-aci-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cisco-aci-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/cisco-aci-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cisco-aci-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cisco-aci-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cisco-aci-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cisco-aci-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/cisco-aci-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/cisco-aci-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/cisco-aci-cli.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/cisco-aci-sandbox.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cisco-aci-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/cisco-aci-event-subscriptions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cisco-aci-conformance.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/cisco-aci-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cisco-aci-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/cisco-aci-trust-center.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-19'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io