# Code Ocean

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/code-ocean/  
**Website:** https://docs.codeocean.com/user-guide/code-ocean-api  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Code Ocean is a computational research platform that helps scientists, engineers, and research organizations produce, manage, and reproduce computational science at scale. Its cloud environment centers on three resources — Capsules and Pipelines (self-contained, versioned compute environments that bundle code, data, environment, and results), Computations (tracked runs of those capsules and pipelines), and Data Assets (versioned datasets and captured results). Code Ocean exposes a REST API, an official Python SDK, and an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so teams can automate reproducible research, integrate the platform into data pipelines, and drive capsules and data assets from agents. The company was surfaced as a Battery Ventures portfolio company and is widely used across life sciences, biotech, and academic research computing.

## Kin Score — 41.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 64.3 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 58.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 42.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Code Ocean Capsules API** — Reproducible compute capsules and pipelines
- **Code Ocean Computations API** — Runs of capsules and pipelines
- **Code Ocean Data Assets API** — Versioned datasets and result data

## MCP servers (1)

- **Code Ocean MCP Server** — Official Code Ocean MCP server. Provides tools to search and run capsules and pipelines and to manage data assets. Runs locally as a stdio child process; authenticates with a Co...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Code Ocean Agentic Access** — 26 operations · 19 acting

## Security (2)

- **Code Ocean Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Code Ocean Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Reproducible Research, Computational Science, Data Science, Research Computing, Life Sciences, Pipelines, MLOps, Cloud Platform, Developer Tools

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