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 6 more developer resources.

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37.0/100 thin ▼ -6.0 Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

4 APIs

MessagingPrivacyAnonymousOpen Source

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Composite quality — 37.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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

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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 1

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

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

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

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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
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: '0.19'
tags:
- Messaging
- Privacy
- Anonymous
- Open Source
common:
- 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