Cortex

aid: cortex-app
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cortex-app/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cortex
kind: company
description: Cortex is an Internal Developer Portal and service catalog used by platform and engineering teams to inventory
  services, libraries, domains, teams, on-call rotations, and resources; measure them against Scorecards (production readiness,
  security, SLO compliance, cost, AI usage); and drive developer-facing experiences through Initiatives, Workflows, and Scaffolder
  templates. Cortex pulls signals from GitHub, GitLab, AWS, Azure, GCP, Datadog, PagerDuty, Slack, Jira, Snyk, SonarQube,
  and many other integrations, and exposes a REST API and an MCP server so that humans and AI agents can query the catalog,
  scorecards, dependencies, and entity descriptors.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cortex-app.png
tags:
- Internal Developer Portal
- Service Catalog
- Scorecards
- Platform Engineering
- Developer Experience
- SRE
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: cortex-app:catalog-api
  name: Cortex Catalog API
  description: REST endpoints to list and retrieve catalog entities (services, libraries, domains, resources, teams) and their
    descriptors. Supports filtering by tag, type, group, and ownership; returns the canonical entity descriptor and its OpenAPI
    definition where available.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com
  tags:
  - REST API
  - Catalog
  - Entities
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
- aid: cortex-app:scorecards-api
  name: Cortex Scorecards API
  description: REST endpoints to list Scorecards, fetch scores for a Scorecard across entities, and surface recommended next
    steps for improving an entity's score. Underpins production-readiness, security, and cost programs.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com
  tags:
  - REST API
  - Scorecards
  - Quality
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
- aid: cortex-app:dependencies-api
  name: Cortex Dependencies API
  description: REST endpoints to list and inspect entity-to-entity dependencies (caller and callee) and the relationships
    used to build the service graph.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com
  tags:
  - REST API
  - Dependencies
  - Graph
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
- aid: cortex-app:initiatives-api
  name: Cortex Initiatives API
  description: REST endpoints to list and retrieve Initiatives - time-boxed cross-team programs that track Scorecard progress,
    owners, and deadlines.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com
  tags:
  - REST API
  - Initiatives
  - Programs
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
- aid: cortex-app:workflows-api
  name: Cortex Workflow Runs API
  description: REST endpoints for managing and querying Workflow runs, used to drive developer self-service actions and scaffolding
    from the Cortex IDP.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com
  tags:
  - REST API
  - Workflows
  - Self-Service
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
- aid: cortex-app:mcp
  name: Cortex MCP Server
  description: Model Context Protocol server exposing Cortex catalog, scorecards, dependencies, and on-call data to AI agents
    and copilots through MCP tools and resources.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  baseURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  tags:
  - MCP
  - AI
  - Agents
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
- aid: cortex-app:cortex-app-catalog-api
  name: Cortex Catalog API
  description: Catalog entity operations
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-app-catalog-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cortex-app:cortex-app-initiatives-api
  name: Cortex Initiatives API
  description: Initiative operations
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com
  tags:
  - Initiatives
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-app-initiatives-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cortex-app:cortex-app-scorecards-api
  name: Cortex Scorecards API
  description: Scorecard operations
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com
  tags:
  - Scorecards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-app-scorecards-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cortex-app-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cortex-app-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cortex-app-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cortexapp
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cortex.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.cortex.io/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cortexapps
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cortex-app-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cortex-app-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cortex-app-finops.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.cortex.io/integrations
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.cortex.io/llms.txt
- url: https://www.cortex.io/blog
  type: Blog
integrations:
- name: GitHub
- name: GitLab
- name: Bitbucket
- name: AWS
- name: Azure
- name: GCP
- name: Datadog
- name: PagerDuty
- name: Opsgenie
- name: Slack
- name: Jira
- name: ServiceNow
- name: Snyk
- name: SonarQube
- name: Backstage
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com