Dead Drop

Privacy-focused, ephemeral data-sharing API with zero-knowledge encryption. Open source under MIT, built on Cloudflare Workers, Hono, and D1.

Dead Drop publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Documentation API, Drops API, Health API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Messaging, Privacy, Anonymous, and Open Source.

The Dead Drop catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Dead Drop’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, legal docs, and 8 more developer resources.

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32.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFree

1 APIs

Messaging Privacy Anonymous Open Source

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 32.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.1 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.5 / 15

Access Clarity 5.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.4 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 3.2 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.2 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 4

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

Dead Drop Documentation API

The Documentation API from Dead Drop — 2 operation(s) for documentation.

Dead Drop Drops API

Drop CRUD operations

Dead Drop Health API

Health check endpoints

Dead Drop History API

Drop version history

Open Collections 6

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

dead-drop API v1 Documentation API

OPEN COLLECTION

dead-drop API v1 Documentation Drops API

OPEN COLLECTION

dead-drop API v1 Documentation Health API

OPEN COLLECTION

dead-drop API v1 Documentation History API

OPEN COLLECTION

dead-drop API v1

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Dead Drop Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Dead Drop Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Dead Drop Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Dead Drop Context

18 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Dead Drop API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Dead Drop API Rules

8 rules · 3 errors 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Drop

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Drop Version

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Dead Drop Drop Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 8

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Dead Drop Check Name Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Dead Drop Create Drop Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Dead Drop Delete Drop Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Dead Drop Generate Name Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Dead Drop Health Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Dead Drop List History Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Dead Drop Retrieve Drop Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Dead Drop Update Drop Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 1

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

Dead Drop Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Dead Drop Agentic Access

11 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Legal

Legal

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

APIsJSON

APIsJSON

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dead-drop
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dead-drop/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Dead Drop
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-unlicensed
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dead-drop.png
description: Privacy-focused, ephemeral data-sharing API with zero-knowledge encryption. Open source under MIT, built on Cloudflare
  Workers, Hono, and D1.
created: '2026-05-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Messaging
- Privacy
- Anonymous
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- Messaging
- Privacy
- Anonymous
- Open Source
- Open-Source
common:
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan/dead-drop/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan/dead-drop/issues
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/dead-drop-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dead-drop-domain-security.yml
- url: https://dead-drop.xyz
  type: Website
- url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/
  type: Documentation
- url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
  type: APIReference
- url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/openapi.json
  type: APIsJSON
- url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan/dead-drop
  type: GitHubRepository
- url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan/dead-drop/blob/main/LICENSE
  type: Legal
- url: https://dead-drop.xyz/terms
  type: TermsOfService
url-source: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
reconciled: false
apis:
- aid: dead-drop:dead-drop-documentation-api
  name: Dead Drop Documentation API
  description: The Documentation API from Dead Drop — 2 operation(s) for documentation.
  humanURL: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
  baseURL: https://api.dead-drop.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Documentation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dead-drop-documentation-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan/dead-drop
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://dead-drop.xyz/terms
- aid: dead-drop:dead-drop-drops-api
  name: Dead Drop Drops API
  description: Drop CRUD operations
  humanURL: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
  baseURL: https://api.dead-drop.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Drops
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dead-drop-drops-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan/dead-drop
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://dead-drop.xyz/terms
- aid: dead-drop:dead-drop-health-api
  name: Dead Drop Health API
  description: Health check endpoints
  humanURL: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
  baseURL: https://api.dead-drop.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dead-drop-health-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan/dead-drop
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://dead-drop.xyz/terms
- aid: dead-drop:dead-drop-history-api
  name: Dead Drop History API
  description: Drop version history
  humanURL: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
  baseURL: https://api.dead-drop.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - History
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dead-drop-history-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/latest/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://davorinrusevljan.github.io/dead-drop/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan/dead-drop
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://dead-drop.xyz/terms
maintainers:
- FN: Davorin Rusevljan
  url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan
x-github:
  owner: davorinrusevljan
  repo: dead-drop
  url: https://github.com/davorinrusevljan/dead-drop
  license: MIT
  primaryLanguage: TypeScript
  languages:
  - TypeScript
  - CSS
  - JavaScript
  - Shell
  - Dockerfile
  topics:
  - api
  - cloudflare-d1
  - cloudflare-workers
  - encryption
  - ephemeral
  - hono
  - nextjs
  - openapi
  - privacy
  - typescript
  - zero-knowledge
  stars: 2
  forks: 0
  createdAt: '2026-03-17'
  pushedAt: '2026-05-16'
x-stack:
  runtime: Cloudflare Workers
  framework: Hono
  database: Cloudflare D1
  frontend: Next.js
  packageManager: pnpm
  monorepo: Turbo
x-features:
- 'Free tier drops: 10KB, 7-day lifespan, text only'
- 'Deep tier drops: 4MB, 90-day lifespan'
- 'Zero-knowledge encryption: AES-GCM, content encrypted client-side'
- Public and private drop visibility
- Version history (5-version limit)
- EFF Diceware random drop names (4-word, kebab-case)
- SHA-256 hashed drop identifiers

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