# Cortex

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cortex-app/  
**Website:** https://www.cortex.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 35.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 51.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **Cortex Catalog API** — REST endpoints to list and retrieve catalog entities (services, libraries, domains, resources, teams) and their descriptors. Supports filtering by tag, type, group, and ownershi...
- **Cortex Scorecards API** — 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-readine...
- **Cortex Dependencies API** — REST endpoints to list and inspect entity-to-entity dependencies (caller and callee) and the relationships used to build the service graph.
- **Cortex Initiatives API** — REST endpoints to list and retrieve Initiatives - time-boxed cross-team programs that track Scorecard progress, owners, and deadlines.
- **Cortex Workflow Runs API** — REST endpoints for managing and querying Workflow runs, used to drive developer self-service actions and scaffolding from the Cortex IDP.
- **Cortex MCP Server** — Model Context Protocol server exposing Cortex catalog, scorecards, dependencies, and on-call data to AI agents and copilots through MCP tools and resources.
- **Cortex Catalog API** — Catalog entity operations
- **Cortex Initiatives API** — Initiative operations
- **Cortex Scorecards API** — Scorecard operations

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cortex App Agentic Access** — 7 operations

## Security (2)

- **Cortex App Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Cortex App Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cortex App Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Internal Developer Portal, Service Catalog, Scorecards, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, SRE

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