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 APIs 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.

DeSci Labs’ developer surface includes authentication, sandbox, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, and 17 more developer resources.

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48.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 49/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessSelf serve

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Ai Enterprise SoftwareResearch InfrastructureDecentralized ScienceScholarly CommunicationPersistent Identifiers Open AccessAI Research ToolsIPFS MCP

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 48.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.4 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.7 / 10

Discoverability 6.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 6.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 49/100 · 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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research 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.

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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APIs 3

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

MCP Servers 1

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

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 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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'
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: 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

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