Defense Unicorns

Defense Unicorns is a defense-technology company that makes running modern software on military systems easy — from cloud to edge, satellites to submarines. Its UDS (Unicorn Delivery Service) platform is a secure-by-default, airgap-native software delivery stack built on Kubernetes and Zarf, bundling Istio, Keycloak, Authservice, Prometheus/Grafana, Vector/Loki, Falco and the Pepr policy engine. The company ships its developer surface as open-source CLIs and libraries — the UDS CLI, Pepr, Lula (compliance-as-code / OSCAL), and the Maru task runner — rather than a hosted REST API. Offerings span UDS Core, UDS Fleet, UDS Enterprise, software factories, compliance automation, and forward-deployed engineering. Backed by Sapphire Ventures.

Defense Unicorns is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Infrastructure, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, and Defense.

Defense Unicorns’ developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, CLI, and 10 more developer resources.

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20.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 2/6 trace saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

0 APIs

Company Infrastructure DevSecOps Kubernetes Defense Software Delivery Compliance Open SourceAir Gap

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 20.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.9 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 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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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
Software Supply Chain (SBOM, Signing, Open Source Security)	standard	34.5 (thin)	-	-

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.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

DevSecOps

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Security Posture 1

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

Defense Unicorns Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: defense-unicorns
name: Defense Unicorns
description: Defense Unicorns is a defense-technology company that makes running modern software on military systems easy
  — from cloud to edge, satellites to submarines. Its UDS (Unicorn Delivery Service) platform is a secure-by-default, airgap-native
  software delivery stack built on Kubernetes and Zarf, bundling Istio, Keycloak, Authservice, Prometheus/Grafana, Vector/Loki,
  Falco and the Pepr policy engine. The company ships its developer surface as open-source CLIs and libraries — the UDS CLI,
  Pepr, Lula (compliance-as-code / OSCAL), and the Maru task runner — rather than a hosted REST API. Offerings span UDS Core,
  UDS Fleet, UDS Enterprise, software factories, compliance automation, and forward-deployed engineering. Backed by Sapphire
  Ventures.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/defense-unicorns/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- sapphire-ventures
x-tier: stub
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: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/87975021?v=4
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- DevSecOps
- Kubernetes
- Defense
- Software Delivery
- Compliance
- Open Source
- Air Gap
tags_raw:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- DevSecOps
- Kubernetes
- Defense
- Software Delivery
- Compliance
- Open Source
- Air Gap
- Open-Source
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.defenseunicorns.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.defenseunicorns.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.defenseunicorns.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.defenseunicorns.com/cli/getting-started/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/defenseunicorns
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.defenseunicorns.com/resources/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.defenseunicorns.com/contact/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.defenseunicorns.com/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.defenseunicorns.com/legal/site-terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.defenseunicorns.com/legal/privacy-policy/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/defense-unicorns-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/defense-unicorns-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/defense-unicorns-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/defense-unicorns-cli.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/defense-unicorns-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/defense-unicorns-well-known.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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