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.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

40.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

6 APIs

Software CatalogInternal Developer PortalService CatalogDeveloper ExperienceIDPScorecardsPlatform EngineeringDeveloper Portal

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

Composite quality — 40.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 15.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/cortex-idp: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Want it done for you? Prioritized profiling — $2,500 →

APIs 6

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

Cortex Catalog API

Software catalog entities - services, resources, domains, and custom types.

Cortex Custom Data API

Arbitrary key/value metadata attached to catalog entities.

Cortex Deploys API

Deployment events recorded per catalog entity.

Cortex Initiatives API

Time-boxed improvement campaigns driving entities toward a Scorecard target.

Cortex Integrations API

Third-party integration configurations that hydrate the catalog.

Cortex Scorecards API

Standards that measure catalog entities, with scores and exemptions.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Cortex REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cortex Idp Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Cortex Idp Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cortex Idp Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cortex Idp Agentic Access

47 operations · 25 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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: '0.19'
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:
  - 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

Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Cortex, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

info@apievangelist.com · Read the full data-sourcing policy →
On a security or compliance team? Put security in the subject line and you will get a person, not a form — we will tell you exactly which public URLs this profile was built from.