# Continuous Delivery Foundation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/continuous-delivery-foundation/  
**Website:** https://cd.foundation/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is a Linux Foundation project that hosts vendor-neutral open source projects for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps. It is the home of CDEvents, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Screwdriver, Ortelius, JayeX, and was previously the home of Tekton (now a CNCF graduated project) and other CD-focused tooling.

## Kin Score — 14.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 14.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **CDEvents Specification** — CDEvents is a common specification for Continuous Delivery events that enables interoperability across CI/CD systems. It extends the CloudEvents specification and defines event ...
- **Jenkins** — Jenkins is the leading open source automation server, providing hundreds of plugins for building, deploying, and automating software projects. Jenkins exposes a remote access RE...
- **Spinnaker** — Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform originally built at Netflix and Google for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. Sp...
- **Screwdriver** — Screwdriver is an open-source build platform designed for Continuous Delivery, originally built at Yahoo. It provides a REST API for managing pipelines, builds, jobs, and webhoo...
- **Ortelius** — Ortelius is an open source supply chain evidence store that aggregates continuous security intelligence across the software delivery lifecycle. It exposes APIs for tracking micr...
- **JayeX** — JayeX is a customizable cloud developer tool suite hosted by the Continuous Delivery Foundation that provides built-in CI/CD capabilities and developer self-service tooling for ...
- **Tekton** — Tekton is a Kubernetes-native open source framework for creating CI/CD systems. It defines Custom Resource Definitions for Pipelines, Tasks, PipelineRuns, and TaskRuns and was o...

## Security (1)

- **Continuous Delivery Foundation Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Continuous Delivery Foundation Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Automation, CI/CD, DevOps, Linux Foundation, Open-Source

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