DFINITY

The DFINITY Foundation is a Swiss-based not-for-profit research organization that created and stewards the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), a public, decentralized "frontier cloud" that hosts software and data entirely inside a mathematical network protocol. Applications run as canisters (WebAssembly smart contracts with persistent state, native HTTP, and a reverse gas model paid in Cycles) that are tamperproof, unstoppable, and free from vendor lock-in. ICP uses Chain Key cryptography and Chain Fusion to transact natively on Bitcoin and Ethereum without bridges, and is governed on-network by the Network Nervous System (NNS). DFINITY publishes first-party developer tooling — JavaScript/TypeScript agent libraries under the @dfinity npm scope, Rust agent and Canister Developer Kit crates, the icp/dfx CLIs, and an AI agent skills library — plus a public HTTP interface for reading from and calling canisters.

DFINITY is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Blockchain, Internet Computer, ICP, and Web3.

DFINITY’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, CLI, and 11 more developer resources.

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21.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 97/100 alive library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company Blockchain Internet Computer ICP Web3CanistersSmart ContractsDecentralized CloudCryptography Developer Tools

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 21.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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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
Vulnerability Disclosure (CVE Numbering Authorities, FIRST member teams; CISA KEV exposure)	standard	41.9	-	1
LF Decentralized Trust (Hyperledger) Members and Projects (enterprise blockchain, digital identity, CBDC)	standard	41.9	-	1

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 3

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)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 1

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

Internet Computer HTTP Interface

The public HTTP interface (agent/gateway API) for reading state from and submitting calls to Internet Computer canisters, consumed by the @dfinity agent libraries, the Rust ic-a...

MCP Servers 1

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

DFINITY MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.internetcomputer.org over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Dfinity Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Dfinity Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Roadmap

Roadmap

Support

Support

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dfinity
name: DFINITY
description: The DFINITY Foundation is a Swiss-based not-for-profit research organization that created and stewards the Internet
  Computer Protocol (ICP), a public, decentralized "frontier cloud" that hosts software and data entirely inside a mathematical
  network protocol. Applications run as canisters (WebAssembly smart contracts with persistent state, native HTTP, and a reverse
  gas model paid in Cycles) that are tamperproof, unstoppable, and free from vendor lock-in. ICP uses Chain Key cryptography
  and Chain Fusion to transact natively on Bitcoin and Ethereum without bridges, and is governed on-network by the Network
  Nervous System (NNS). DFINITY publishes first-party developer tooling — JavaScript/TypeScript agent libraries under the
  @dfinity npm scope, Rust agent and Canister Developer Kit crates, the icp/dfx CLIs, and an AI agent skills library — plus
  a public HTTP interface for reading from and calling canisters.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dfinity/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- multicoin-capital
- polychain
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://github.com/dfinity.png
tags:
- Company
- Blockchain
- Internet Computer
- ICP
- Web3
- Canisters
- Smart Contracts
- Decentralized Cloud
- Cryptography
- Developer Tools
apis:
- name: Internet Computer HTTP Interface
  description: The public HTTP interface (agent/gateway API) for reading state from and submitting calls to Internet Computer
    canisters, consumed by the @dfinity agent libraries, the Rust ic-agent, and the icp/dfx CLIs.
  humanURL: https://docs.internetcomputer.org/
  baseURL: https://icp-api.io
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.internetcomputer.org/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://dfinity.org
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://internetcomputer.org/build/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.internetcomputer.org/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.internetcomputer.org/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://internetcomputer.org/quick-start/
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://internetcomputer.org/roadmap/
- type: Blog
  url: https://internetcomputer.org/news/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/dfinity
- type: Support
  url: https://forum.dfinity.org
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/dfinity-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/dfinity-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/dfinity-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/dfinity-cli.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dfinity-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/dfinity-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://dfinity.org/security/responsible-disclosure
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

DFINITY API — frequently asked questions

Does DFINITY have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from DFINITY, including Internet Computer HTTP Interface.

Does DFINITY have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for DFINITY: Remote MCP server at mcp.internetcomputer.org over HTTP.

Is the DFINITY API ready for AI agents?

DFINITY has a Kin Score of 21.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 15.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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