Civil Infrastructure Platform

The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) is a Linux Foundation collaborative project that builds an industrial-grade open source base layer for civil infrastructure systems such as transportation, power generation and distribution, building and city management, industrial control, and healthcare equipment. CIP curates a Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) kernel and core user-space packages that can be maintained for more than ten years, plus working groups for security (IEC 62443 alignment), software update, real-time, and testing. CIP's primary programmable interface is source code — the kernel, CIP Core images and tooling published through GitLab and Debian-derived package archives — and it publishes machine-readable product lifecycle data for those. CIP also serves one live REST API: its own event calendar at cip-project.org/wp-json, declared in an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog and described by OpenAPI documents the site serves itself.

Civil Infrastructure Platform publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Embedded, Industrial, Infrastructure, Linux, and Linux Foundation.

The Civil Infrastructure Platform catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Civil Infrastructure Platform’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, engineering blog, documentation, support, pricing, signup flow, and 36 more developer resources.

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34.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 10/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 64/100 slowing Full breakdown ↓
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3 published contracts 1 Agent Skills

Embedded Industrial Infrastructure Linux Linux FoundationLong-Term SupportOpen Source

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 34.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 2.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.6 / 15

Access Clarity 5.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.7 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 10/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 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 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 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 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 10.7 — up to +22.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 37.5 — up to +12.5 composite points
Access Clarity scores 39.5 — up to +12.1 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	23.6 (thin)	-	-

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.

APIs 6

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

CIP SLTS Kernel

The CIP Kernel is a Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) Linux kernel branch maintained for ten or more years, providing a stable base for industrial systems that must remain in servi...

CIP Core Packages

CIP Core provides a curated set of Debian-derived user-space packages aligned with the SLTS kernel to deliver a complete reference platform for civil infrastructure devices.

CIP Software Update

The CIP Software Update working group maintains tooling such as SWUpdate and hawkBit-based servers used to deliver secure over-the-air updates across long-lived industrial deplo...

CIP Security

The CIP Security working group aligns the CIP base layer with IEC 62443-4-1 and 62443-4-2 industrial cybersecurity requirements and tracks CVE handling across the SLTS kernel an...

CIP Testing

The CIP Testing working group runs continuous-integration and hardware-in-the-loop testing on member-supplied boards to validate kernel and core packages against the SLTS branch.

Civil Infrastructure Platform Website (WordPress REST)

The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Civil Infrastructure Platform website at cip-project.org: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as o...

Agent Skills 1

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

Read CIP events, venues and organizers

AGENT SKILL

Civil Infrastructure Platform API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Civil Infrastructure Platform Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Civil Infrastructure Platform Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Civil Infrastructure Platform Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Civil Infrastructure Platform Context

13 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Civil Infrastructure Platform API Rules

5 rules · 2 errors 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 3

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.

Civil Infrastructure Platform Events Overlay

2 actions · update · civil-infrastructure-platform-events-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Civil Infrastructure Platform Tec V1 Overlay

2 actions · update · civil-infrastructure-platform-tec-v1-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Civil Infrastructure Platform Zapier Overlay

2 actions · update · civil-infrastructure-platform-zapier-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Civil Infrastructure Platform Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Civil Infrastructure Platform Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Civil Infrastructure Platform Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

Spectral

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

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Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitLab

GitLab

GitHub

GitHub

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Compliance

Compliance

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Blog

BlogRSS

Twitter

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Wiki

Mailing List

APICatalog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: civil-infrastructure-platform
name: Civil Infrastructure Platform
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/civil-infrastructure-platform/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - finops
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-09-16'
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consuming
specificationVersion: '0.23'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/civil-infrastructure-platform.png
x-docs-platform: sphinx
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-21
tags:
- Embedded
- Industrial
- Infrastructure
- Linux
- Linux Foundation
- Long-Term Support
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- Embedded
- Industrial
- Infrastructure
- Linux
- Linux Foundation
- Long-Term Support
- Open Source
- Open-Source
description: 'The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) is a Linux Foundation collaborative project that builds an industrial-grade
  open source base layer for civil infrastructure systems such as transportation, power generation and distribution, building
  and city management, industrial control, and healthcare equipment. CIP curates a Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) kernel and
  core user-space packages that can be maintained for more than ten years, plus working groups for security (IEC 62443 alignment),
  software update, real-time, and testing. CIP''s primary programmable interface is source code — the kernel, CIP Core images
  and tooling published through GitLab and Debian-derived package archives — and it publishes machine-readable product lifecycle
  data for those. CIP also serves one live REST API: its own event calendar at cip-project.org/wp-json, declared in an RFC
  9727 /.well-known/api-catalog and described by OpenAPI documents the site serves itself.'
apis:
- aid: civil-infrastructure-platform:cip-kernel
  name: CIP SLTS Kernel
  tags:
  - Embedded
  - Kernel
  - Linux
  - SLTS
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipkernelmaintenance
  properties:
  - url: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipkernelmaintenance
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-kernel
    type: Source Code
  description: The CIP Kernel is a Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) Linux kernel branch maintained for ten or more years, providing
    a stable base for industrial systems that must remain in service across multi-decade lifecycles.
- aid: civil-infrastructure-platform:cip-core
  name: CIP Core Packages
  tags:
  - Debian
  - Packages
  - Userspace
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipcore
  properties:
  - url: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipcore
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-core
    type: Source Code
  description: CIP Core provides a curated set of Debian-derived user-space packages aligned with the SLTS kernel to deliver
    a complete reference platform for civil infrastructure devices.
- aid: civil-infrastructure-platform:cip-software-update
  name: CIP Software Update
  tags:
  - OTA
  - Software Update
  - SWUpdate
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/softwareupdate
  properties:
  - url: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/softwareupdate
    type: Documentation
  description: The CIP Software Update working group maintains tooling such as SWUpdate and hawkBit-based servers used to
    deliver secure over-the-air updates across long-lived industrial deployments.
- aid: civil-infrastructure-platform:cip-security
  name: CIP Security
  tags:
  - IEC 62443
  - Industrial Security
  - Security
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipsecurity
  properties:
  - url: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipsecurity
    type: Documentation
  description: The CIP Security working group aligns the CIP base layer with IEC 62443-4-1 and 62443-4-2 industrial cybersecurity
    requirements and tracks CVE handling across the SLTS kernel and user-space.
- aid: civil-infrastructure-platform:cip-testing
  name: CIP Testing
  tags:
  - CI
  - LAVA
  - Testing
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting
  properties:
  - url: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting
    type: Documentation
  description: The CIP Testing working group runs continuous-integration and hardware-in-the-loop testing on member-supplied
    boards to validate kernel and core packages against the SLTS branch.
- aid: civil-infrastructure-platform:cip-project-org-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Civil Infrastructure Platform Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Civil Infrastructure Platform website at cip-project.org: the
    route index of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://cip-project.org/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cip-project.org/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/civil-infrastructure-platform-tec-v1-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/civil-infrastructure-platform-events-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/civil-infrastructure-platform-zapier-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/civil-infrastructure-platform-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/civil-infrastructure-platform-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/civil-infrastructure-platform
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cip-project.org/
- type: Wiki
  url: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform
- type: GitLab
  url: https://gitlab.com/cip-project
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cip-project
- type: Mailing List
  url: https://lists.cip-project.org/g/cip-dev
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/civil-infrastructure-platform-context.jsonld
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/civil-infrastructure-platform-rules.yml
- url: https://cip-project.org/blog/
  type: Blog
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/civil-infrastructure-platform-tec-v1-openapi-original.json
  name: CIP Events REST API (tec/v1)
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/civil-infrastructure-platform-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: https://www.cip-project.org/.well-known/api-catalog
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/civil-infrastructure-platform-llms.txt
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/civil-infrastructure-platform-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/civil-infrastructure-platform-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/civil-infrastructure-platform-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/civil-infrastructure-platform-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/civil-infrastructure-platform-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/10564
  name: OpenSSF Best Practices — Gold badge
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/civil-infrastructure-platform-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipkernelmaintenance#security_fixes
  name: CIP security fix and vulnerability reporting process
- type: Packages
  url: packages/civil-infrastructure-platform-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/civil-infrastructure-platform-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/civil-infrastructure-platform-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/civil-infrastructure-platform-finops.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cip-documents.readthedocs.io/
- type: Support
  url: https://lists.cip-project.org/g/cip-dev
- type: Pricing
  url: https://cip-project.org/about/join
- type: SignUp
  url: https://enrollment.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/?project=cip
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/privacy
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://cip-project.org/feed
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/cip_project
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/civil-infrastructure-platform-changelog.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/civil-infrastructure-platform-mcp.yml
- type: APIReference
  url: https://cip-project.org/wp-json/tec/v1/docs
  name: Live self-served OpenAPI 3.0.4 reference for the CIP Events REST API
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cip-project
  name: CIP GitHub organization (0 public repos — the code lives on GitLab)
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
  pass: local-v3

Civil Infrastructure Platform API — frequently asked questions

Does Civil Infrastructure Platform have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Civil Infrastructure Platform, including CIP SLTS Kernel, CIP Core Packages and CIP Software Update, and 3 more.

How do I authenticate with the Civil Infrastructure Platform API?

Civil Infrastructure Platform uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Civil Infrastructure Platform Authentication.

Is the Civil Infrastructure Platform API ready for AI agents?

Civil Infrastructure Platform has a Kin Score of 34.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 9.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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