# Cortex

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cortex-idp/  
**Website:** https://www.cortex.io  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 38.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.4 from 39.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.8 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cortex Idp Agentic Access** — 47 operations · 25 acting

## Security (1)

- **Cortex Idp Authentication** — http · 1 scheme

## Plans (1)

- **Cortex Idp Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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