# DeSci Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/desci-labs/  
**Website:** https://desci-labs.github.io/nodes/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 48.9 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 48.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 48.1 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 73.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 46.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 49.3 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Desci Labs Agentic Access** — 12 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Desci Labs Authentication** — none/apiKey/oauth2 · 4 schemes
- **Desci Labs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Company, Ai Enterprise Software, Research Infrastructure, Decentralized Science, Scholarly Communication, Persistent Identifiers, Open Access, AI Research Tools, IPFS, MCP

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/desci-labs/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.