DeSci Labs

DeSci Labs builds decentralized-science infrastructure for open, verifiable, and AI-native scholarly communication. Its products include DeSci Publish (DeSci Nodes) — a preprint and open-access publishing platform with rapid peer review and versioned, PID-addressed research objects; SciWeave — an AI research-discovery engine over 300M+ scientific works that ships a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server; the DeSci Referee Finder for editorial reviewer matching; and the open-source dPID Resolver, an HTTP API that bridges decentralized persistent identifiers (dPIDs) to IPFS content and the Ceramic network. Developers integrate via the @desci-labs/nodes-lib client library and the public dPID Resolver API. Backed by hv-capital.

DeSci Labs publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Data API, Query API, and Resolve API. Tagged areas include Company, Ai Enterprise Software, Research Infrastructure, Decentralized Science, and Scholarly Communication.

The DeSci Labs catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

DeSci Labs’ developer surface includes authentication, sandbox, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, and 19 more developer resources.

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44.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 52/100 agent ready Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 44/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Company Ai Enterprise Software Research InfrastructureDecentralized ScienceScholarly Communication Persistent Identifiers Open AccessAI Research ToolsIPFS MCP

What this lets a business do 1

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Research & Scholarship Management

BC-4780

QueryResolve

GET /v2/resolve/dpid/{dpid}/{versionIx} GET /v2/query/objects GET /v2/query/dpids

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 44.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 11.0 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 52/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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.

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

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)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Pagination +5 pts — share of collection GETs (an array, or one wrapped in data/items/results ...) that declare a page/limit/offset/cursor parameter, a Link header or a next/cursor field; na with no collection GETs
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's

3 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 44.6 — up to +13.9 composite points
Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 18.4 — up to +10.6 composite points

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Standards implemented 5

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 3

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

DeSci Labs Data API

**Data utilities** - IPFS-related utilities like folder tree listing by dPID or CID. Useful for directory browsing UIs and content explorers.

DeSci Labs Query API

**Research discovery and browse functionality** - Ideal for browse pages, search, and analytics. Paginated lists of research objects with optional metadata resolution, version h...

DeSci Labs Resolve API

**Individual research object resolution** - Perfect for detail pages, file access, and direct DPID links. Get complete research objects with full version history, specific files...

Open Collections 3

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

dPID Resolver Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

dPID Resolver Data Query API

OPEN COLLECTION

dPID Resolver Data Resolve API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

SciWeave MCP Server

Claude connector for research paper search and AI-powered answers grounded in SciWeave's index of 300M+ scientific works; all tools are read-only and return verifiable DOIs.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

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

Query and page through research objects

AGENT SKILL

Resolve a dPID to a research object

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

DeSci Labs API Rules

60 rules · 52 errors 3 warnings 5 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Desci Labs Dpid Resolver Overlay

2 actions · update · desci-labs-dpid-resolver-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Desci Labs Authentication

none/apiKey/oauth2 · 4 schemes

SECURITY

Desci Labs Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Desci Labs Agentic Access

12 operations

12 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

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

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: desci-labs
name: DeSci Labs
description: DeSci Labs builds decentralized-science infrastructure for open, verifiable, and AI-native scholarly communication.
  Its products include DeSci Publish (DeSci Nodes) — a preprint and open-access publishing platform with rapid peer review
  and versioned, PID-addressed research objects; SciWeave — an AI research-discovery engine over 300M+ scientific works that
  ships a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server; the DeSci Referee Finder for editorial reviewer matching; and the open-source
  dPID Resolver, an HTTP API that bridges decentralized persistent identifiers (dPIDs) to IPFS content and the Ceramic network.
  Developers integrate via the @desci-labs/nodes-lib client library and the public dPID Resolver API. Backed by hv-capital.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/desci-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - 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
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/desci-labs
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- hv-capital
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
x-docs-platform: gitbook
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-25
tags:
- Company
- Ai Enterprise Software
- Research Infrastructure
- Decentralized Science
- Scholarly Communication
- Persistent Identifiers
- Open Access
- AI Research Tools
- IPFS
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Ai Enterprise Software
- Research Infrastructure
- Decentralized Science
- Scholarly Communication
- Persistent Identifiers
- Open Access
- AI Research Tools
- IPFS
- Model Context Protocol
apis:
- aid: desci-labs:desci-labs-data-api
  name: DeSci Labs Data API
  description: '**Data utilities** - IPFS-related utilities like folder tree listing by dPID or CID. Useful for directory
    browsing UIs and content explorers.'
  humanURL: https://beta.dpid.org/api-docs/
  baseURL: https://beta.dpid.org/api
  tags:
  - Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/desci-labs-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/desci-labs-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/desci-labs-data-model.yml
- aid: desci-labs:desci-labs-query-api
  name: DeSci Labs Query API
  description: '**Research discovery and browse functionality** - Ideal for browse pages, search, and analytics. Paginated
    lists of research objects with optional metadata resolution, version history, and filtering capabilities.'
  humanURL: https://beta.dpid.org/api-docs/
  baseURL: https://beta.dpid.org/api
  tags:
  - Query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/desci-labs-query-api-openapi.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/desci-labs-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/desci-labs-data-model.yml
- aid: desci-labs:desci-labs-resolve-api
  name: DeSci Labs Resolve API
  description: '**Individual research object resolution** - Perfect for detail pages, file access, and direct DPID links.
    Get complete research objects with full version history, specific files, or content in different formats (raw IPFS, MyST,
    JSON-LD).'
  humanURL: https://beta.dpid.org/api-docs/
  baseURL: https://beta.dpid.org/api
  tags:
  - Resolve
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/desci-labs-resolve-api-openapi.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/desci-labs-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/desci-labs-data-model.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.desci.com/
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/desci-labs-capability-edges.yml
  name: DeSci Labs Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/desci-labs-dpid-resolver-overlay.yaml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/desci-labs-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/desci-labs-agentic-access.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/desci-labs-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/desci-labs-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/desci-labs-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/desci-labs-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/desci-labs-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/desci-labs-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/desci-labs-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/desci-labs-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.desci.com
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/desci-labs-sandbox.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.desci.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://beta.dpid.org/api-docs/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://desci-labs.github.io/nodes/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://github.com/desci-labs/nodes-integration-template
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/desci-labs
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.desci.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.desci.com/find-help
- type: SignUp
  url: https://nodes.desci.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.desci.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.desci.com/privacy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

DeSci Labs API — frequently asked questions

Does DeSci Labs have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from DeSci Labs, including DeSci Labs Data API, DeSci Labs Query API and DeSci Labs Resolve API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the DeSci Labs API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for DeSci Labs, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the DeSci Labs API?

DeSci Labs documents its authentication (none/apiKey/oauth2 · 4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Desci Labs Authentication.

Does DeSci Labs have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for DeSci Labs: Claude connector for research paper search and AI-powered answers grounded in SciWeave's index of 300M+ scientific works; all tools are read-only and return verifiable DOIs.

Is the DeSci Labs API ready for AI agents?

DeSci Labs has a Kin Score of 44.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 52.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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