# Cisco ACI

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cisco-aci/  
**Website:** https://developer.cisco.com/site/aci/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 55.4 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 55.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 45.1 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 68.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 90.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 50.3 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (1)

- **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/<di...

## MCP servers (1)

- **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 ...

## Security (4)

- **Cisco Aci Authentication** — 3 schemes
- **Cisco Aci Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Cisco Aci Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Cisco Aci Trust Center** — Common Criteria EAL2+ (ALC_FLR.2), Common Criteria EAL2, FIPS 140 (certificate 4747), FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Cisco Aci Plans Pricing**

## Tags

SDN, Data-Center, Networking, Fabric, Automation, Enterprise, Network Automation, Infrastructure, Controller, REST API

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cisco-aci/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.