Cortex

Cortex (cortex.io) is an internal developer portal (IDP) and software catalog platform. It gives engineering organizations a catalog of services and entities, Scorecards that measure those entities against production-readiness and reliability standards, Initiatives for driving improvement campaigns, and roughly thirty integrations (GitHub, PagerDuty, Datadog, Kubernetes, and more) that hydrate the catalog. Cortex exposes a documented REST API (base https://api.getcortexapp.com/api/v1) with Bearer/API-key authentication covering the Catalog/Entities, Scorecards, Custom Data, Initiatives, Deploys, Teams, and Integrations. NOTE - this is Cortex.io the internal developer portal / service catalog & scorecards company, NOT Cortex XSOAR (Palo Alto Networks), NOT the Cortex crypto token, and NOT Orange Logic's Cortex DAM.

Cortex publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, Custom Data API, Deploys API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Software Catalog, Internal Developer Portal, Service Catalog, Developer Experience, and IDP.

Cortex’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, and 6 more developer resources.

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38.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-24 · rubric v0.13.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

6 APIs

Software Catalog Internal Developer Portal Service Catalog Developer Experience IDP Scorecards Platform Engineering Developer Portal

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scored 2026-08-24 · rubric v0.13.0

Composite quality — 38.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.5 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Access Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cortex Idp Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cortex-idp
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cortex-idp/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cortex
kind: company
description: Cortex (cortex.io) is an internal developer portal (IDP) and software catalog platform. It gives engineering
  organizations a catalog of services and entities, Scorecards that measure those entities against production-readiness and
  reliability standards, Initiatives for driving improvement campaigns, and roughly thirty integrations (GitHub, PagerDuty,
  Datadog, Kubernetes, and more) that hydrate the catalog. Cortex exposes a documented REST API (base https://api.getcortexapp.com/api/v1)
  with Bearer/API-key authentication covering the Catalog/Entities, Scorecards, Custom Data, Initiatives, Deploys, Teams,
  and Integrations. NOTE - this is Cortex.io the internal developer portal / service catalog & scorecards company, NOT Cortex
  XSOAR (Palo Alto Networks), NOT the Cortex crypto token, and NOT Orange Logic's Cortex DAM.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · 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-idp.png
tags:
- Software Catalog
- Internal Developer Portal
- Service Catalog
- Developer Experience
- IDP
- Scorecards
- Platform Engineering
- Developer Portal
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: cortex-idp:cortex-idp-catalog-api
  name: Cortex Catalog API
  description: Software catalog entities - services, resources, domains, and custom types.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-idp-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/scorecards
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/custom-data
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/initiatives
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/deploys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/integrations/github
- aid: cortex-idp:cortex-idp-custom-data-api
  name: Cortex Custom Data API
  description: Arbitrary key/value metadata attached to catalog entities.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Custom Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-idp-custom-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/scorecards
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/custom-data
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/initiatives
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/deploys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/integrations/github
- aid: cortex-idp:cortex-idp-deploys-api
  name: Cortex Deploys API
  description: Deployment events recorded per catalog entity.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Deploys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-idp-deploys-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/scorecards
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/custom-data
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/initiatives
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/deploys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/integrations/github
- aid: cortex-idp:cortex-idp-initiatives-api
  name: Cortex Initiatives API
  description: Time-boxed improvement campaigns driving entities toward a Scorecard target.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Initiatives
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-idp-initiatives-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/scorecards
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/custom-data
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/initiatives
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/deploys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/integrations/github
- aid: cortex-idp:cortex-idp-integrations-api
  name: Cortex Integrations API
  description: Third-party integration configurations that hydrate the catalog.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Integration
  tags_raw:
  - Integrations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-idp-integrations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/scorecards
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/custom-data
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/initiatives
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/deploys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/integrations/github
- aid: cortex-idp:cortex-idp-scorecards-api
  name: Cortex Scorecards API
  description: Standards that measure catalog entities, with scores and exemptions.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  baseURL: https://api.getcortexapp.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Scorecards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-idp-scorecards-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/catalog-entities
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cortex-idp.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/scorecards
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/custom-data
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/initiatives
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/deploys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/api/readme/integrations/github
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cortex-idp-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cortex-idp-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: Plans
  url: plans/cortex-idp-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cortex-idp-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cortex-idp-finops.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.cortex.io/pricing
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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