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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 does not publish a public REST API surface; its programmable interface is the source code, kernel, and tooling published through GitLab and Debian-derived package archives.

Civil Infrastructure Platform publishes 5 APIs 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 GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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25.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
5 APIs
EmbeddedIndustrialInfrastructureLinuxLinux FoundationLong-Term SupportOpen Source

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 25.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 2.5 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 5

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.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Civil Infrastructure Platform Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Civil Infrastructure Platform Rate Limits

5 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

Security Posture 1

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

Civil Infrastructure Platform Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD
 Spectral
Spectral

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitLab
GitLab
 GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Wiki
Wiki
 Mailing List
Mailing List
 Foundation
Foundation

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: civil-infrastructure-platform
name: Civil Infrastructure Platform
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/civil-infrastructure-platform/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-23'
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consumer
specificationVersion: '0.19'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/civil-infrastructure-platform.png
tags:
- Embedded
- Industrial
- Infrastructure
- Linux
- Linux Foundation
- Long-Term Support
- 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 does not publish a public REST API surface; its programmable interface is the
  source code, kernel, and tooling published through GitLab and Debian-derived package archives.
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.
common:
- 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: Foundation
  url: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/civil-infrastructure-platform/
- 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com