CTERA

CTERA operates the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform, a unified edge-to-cloud global file system and data fabric for managing unstructured file data across distributed enterprises. The platform combines secure file collaboration, cyber protection and ransomware defense, global file locking, enterprise search, data classification, and AI-readiness (InsightAI) over a single global namespace spanning edge, data center, and public cloud. CTERA is programmable through a RESTful Portal management API (uniform object namespace addressed by URIs), an official Apache-2.0 Python SDK (cterasdk), a CLI toolbox (ctools), and two official Model Context Protocol servers (mcp-ctera-core and mcp-ctera-edge) that give AI agents file-and-folder operations over the Portal and Edge Filer. CTERA was surfaced as a portfolio company of Bessemer Venture Partners.

CTERA is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud, Storage, File Storage, and Global File System.

CTERA’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, training material, CLI, and 17 more developer resources.

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28.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 92/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Company Cloud Storage File StorageGlobal File SystemData Management Edge ComputingCyber ProtectionHybrid Cloud Unstructured Data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 28.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.8 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Configuration-Management Content Registries (Ansible Galaxy, Chef Supermarket)	builds-on	41.0	-	-
NIST CMVP FIPS 140 Validated Cryptographic Modules (FIPS 140-1 / 140-2 / 140-3)	builds-on	41.0	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 1

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

CTERA Portal RESTful API

RESTful management API for the CTERA Portal. Exposes a uniform object namespace (users, devices, folders, and more) where each object is addressed by a unique URI, using GET/PUT...

MCP Servers 1

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

CTERA MCP Server

CTERA publishes two official, open-source (Apache-2.0) Model Context Protocol servers that give AI agents file-and-folder management over the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform: on...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Perform file operations on a CTERA Edge Filer

AGENT SKILL

Manage and share files in the CTERA Portal

AGENT SKILL

Security Posture 2

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

Ctera Authentication

session-cookie · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Ctera Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Training

Training

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ctera
name: CTERA
description: CTERA operates the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform, a unified edge-to-cloud global file system and data fabric
  for managing unstructured file data across distributed enterprises. The platform combines secure file collaboration, cyber
  protection and ransomware defense, global file locking, enterprise search, data classification, and AI-readiness (InsightAI)
  over a single global namespace spanning edge, data center, and public cloud. CTERA is programmable through a RESTful Portal
  management API (uniform object namespace addressed by URIs), an official Apache-2.0 Python SDK (cterasdk), a CLI toolbox
  (ctools), and two official Model Context Protocol servers (mcp-ctera-core and mcp-ctera-edge) that give AI agents file-and-folder
  operations over the Portal and Edge Filer. CTERA was surfaced as a portfolio company of Bessemer Venture Partners.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ctera/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.ctera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ctera-logo.png
tags:
- Company
- Cloud
- Storage
- File Storage
- Global File System
- Data Management
- Edge Computing
- Cyber Protection
- Hybrid Cloud
- Unstructured Data
apis:
- name: CTERA Portal RESTful API
  description: RESTful management API for the CTERA Portal. Exposes a uniform object namespace (users, devices, folders, and
    more) where each object is addressed by a unique URI, using GET/PUT/POST/DELETE verbs. Authentication is session-cookie
    based via a form login (j_username/j_password); errors are conveyed with standard HTTP status codes.
  humanURL: https://www.ctera.com/help/portal/6.0/api/
  baseURL: https://portal.ctera.com/admin/api
  tags:
  - File
  - Storage
  - Management
  tags_raw:
  - Files
  - Storage
  - Management
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.ctera.com/help/portal/6.0/api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ctera.com/help/portal/6.0/api/CTERA%20Portal%20APIs.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ctera-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ctera-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ctera-problem-types.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ctera.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ctera.com/help/portal/6.0/api/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.ctera.com/help/portal/6.0/api/CTERA%20Portal%20APIs.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.ctera.com/help/portal/6.0/api/CTERA%20Portal%20APIs/CTERA_Portal_API_Developer_Guide2.html
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://kb.ctera.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.ctera.com/support/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.ctera.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ctera
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.ctera.com/eula/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.ctera.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Training
  url: https://www.ctera.com/ctera-training/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ctera-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/ctera-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/ctera-cli.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/ctera-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ctera-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ctera-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/ctera-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/ctera-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ctera-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/ctera-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ctera-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ctera-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

CTERA API — frequently asked questions

Does CTERA have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from CTERA, including CTERA Portal RESTful API.

How do I authenticate with the CTERA API?

CTERA uses bearer-token authentication (session-cookie · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Ctera Authentication.

Does CTERA have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for CTERA: CTERA publishes two official, open-source (Apache-2.0) Model Context Protocol servers that give AI agents file-and-folder management over the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform: one for the CTERA Portal

Is the CTERA API ready for AI agents?

CTERA has a Kin Score of 28.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 6.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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