# Drone

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/drone-ci/  
**Website:** https://www.drone.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Drone is a container-native open-source continuous delivery platform owned by Harness. Pipelines are defined in YAML and executed in Docker containers. The Drone server exposes a REST API used by the Drone CLI, dashboard and SDKs; Drone is now positioned as the open-source upstream of Harness Continuous Integration (Drone Enterprise / Harness CI).

## Kin Score — 28.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 48.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **Drone Server REST API** — Bearer-token authenticated REST API exposed by every Drone server. Endpoints under /api/ for repos, builds, cron, secrets, users, templates, logs and queue status. Default port ...
- **Drone Builds API** — The Builds API from Drone — 9 operation(s) for builds.
- **Drone Cron API** — The Cron API from Drone — 1 operation(s) for cron.
- **Drone Secrets API** — The Secrets API from Drone — 1 operation(s) for secrets.
- **Drone Templates API** — The Templates API from Drone — 1 operation(s) for templates.
- **Drone User API** — The User API from Drone — 1 operation(s) for user.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Drone Ci Agentic Access** — 17 operations · 9 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Drone Ci Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Drone Ci Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Drone Ci Plans Pricing**

## Tags

DevOps, CI/CD, Container-Native, Open-Source, YAML, Harness

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