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Cortex

Cortex is an Engineering Operations (EngOps) platform and internal developer portal that helps engineering teams catalog services, enforce production readiness with scorecards, automate self-service workflows, and surface engineering intelligence across their organization. Cortex centralizes data from observability, CI/CD, source control, on-call, and SaaS tooling and exposes it through a REST API used to integrate the catalog with platform engineering and SRE workflows.

Cortex publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Catalog API, Scorecards API, and Teams API. Tagged areas include Catalog, Custom Data, Dependencies, Deploys, and Developer Experience.

Cortex’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, engineering blog, changelog, and 15 more developer resources.

43.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
4 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CatalogCustom DataDependenciesDeploysDeveloper ExperienceEngOpsEngineering IntelligenceInitiativesInternal Developer PortalOn-callPlatform EngineeringScorecardsService CatalogSREWorkflows

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 43.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 11.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 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 4

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

Cortex MCP Server

Cortex exposes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI coding assistants and IDE agents query the service catalog, look up ownership, check scorecard scores, and run ...

Cortex Catalog API

The Catalog API from Cortex — 8 operation(s) for catalog.

Cortex Scorecards API

The Scorecards API from Cortex — 7 operation(s) for scorecards.

Cortex Teams API

The Teams API from Cortex — 5 operation(s) for teams.

Open Collections 1

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

Cortex REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cortex Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cortex Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Security Posture 2

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

Cortex Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cortex Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Cortex Agentic Access

28 operations · 16 acting

28 operations · 16 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: cortex
name: Cortex
kind: company
description: Cortex is an Engineering Operations (EngOps) platform and internal developer portal that helps engineering teams
  catalog services, enforce production readiness with scorecards, automate self-service workflows, and surface engineering
  intelligence across their organization. Cortex centralizes data from observability, CI/CD, source control, on-call, and
  SaaS tooling and exposes it through a REST API used to integrate the catalog with platform engineering and SRE workflows.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cortex/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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.png
type: Index
access: Public
position: Provider
tags:
- Catalog
- Custom Data
- Dependencies
- Deploys
- Developer Experience
- EngOps
- Engineering Intelligence
- Initiatives
- Internal Developer Portal
- On-call
- Platform Engineering
- Scorecards
- Service Catalog
- SRE
- Workflows
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: cortex:cortex-mcp
  name: Cortex MCP Server
  description: Cortex exposes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI coding assistants and IDE agents query the
    service catalog, look up ownership, check scorecard scores, and run workflows directly from developer tools.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
  tags:
  - AI
  - IDE
  - MCP
- aid: cortex:cortex-catalog-api
  name: Cortex Catalog API
  description: The Catalog API from Cortex — 8 operation(s) for catalog.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/reference
- aid: cortex:cortex-scorecards-api
  name: Cortex Scorecards API
  description: The Scorecards API from Cortex — 7 operation(s) for scorecards.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  tags:
  - Scorecards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-scorecards-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/reference
- aid: cortex:cortex-teams-api
  name: Cortex Teams API
  description: The Teams API from Cortex — 5 operation(s) for teams.
  humanURL: https://docs.cortex.io/
  tags:
  - Teams
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cortex-teams-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.cortex.io/reference
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cortex-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cortex-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cortex-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cortex.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.cortex.io/
- type: Product
  url: https://www.cortex.io/product
- type: ServiceCatalog
  url: https://www.cortex.io/product/service-catalog
- type: Scorecards
  url: https://www.cortex.io/product/scorecards
- type: Workflow
  url: https://www.cortex.io/product/workflows
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.cortex.io/pricing
- type: Customers
  url: https://www.cortex.io/customers
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cortex.io/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cortexapps
- type: Integrations
  url: https://docs.cortex.io/docs/integrations
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.cortex.io/changelog
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cortex.io/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cortexapp/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/cortexapp
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.cortex.io/contact
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/cortexapps/cortex-mcp
  type: MCPServer
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.cortex.io/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: Logo
- name: Social
- name: YC
- name: SOC Type 2 Certified
- name: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certified
- name: Apiiro
- name: ArgoCD
- name: AWS
- name: Azure Active Directory
- name: Azure DevOps
- name: Azure Resources
- name: BambooHR
- name: Bitbucket
- name: Bugsnag
- name: Buildkite
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com