exe.dev

exe.dev is a cloud computing platform from Bold Software that provisions Linux VMs with persistent disks, instant HTTPS, and built-in authentication — all managed over SSH ("just use ssh"). It offers disposable Sandboxes for running AI-generated code, persistent VPS-style VMs, and Devbox cloud development environments, each reachable at https://.exe.xyz with automatic TLS. A companion HTTPS API (POST /exec) runs the same command surface with exe1. bearer tokens, and Shelley — a first-party, web-based coding agent — runs inside the VMs. exe.dev raised a $35M Series A and is backed by Amplify Partners. This profile was enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from the provider's public docs, llms.txt, GitHub org (boldsoftware), and well-known surface.

exe.dev is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Developer Tools, Cloud Computing, Virtual Machines, and Sandbox.

exe.dev’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, support, authentication, and 22 more developer resources.

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33.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 13/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 Agent Skills

Company Developer Tools Cloud Computing Virtual Machines Sandbox AI Agents Infrastructure SSH

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 33.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 13/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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 0 / 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
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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)

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 31.6 — up to +13.7 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 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
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	undeclared	-	-	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 2

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.

SSH

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

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

exe.dev HTTPS API

Programmatic access to the exe.dev command surface. POST the command exactly as typed in the ssh exe.dev REPL to https://exe.dev/exec with an exe1. bearer token; supported comma...

Agent Skills 1

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

using-exe-dev

AGENT SKILL

Security Posture 3

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

Exedev Authentication

ssh-key/http-bearer/openIdConnect · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Exedev Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Exedev Vulnerability Disclosure

contact 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 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Components

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

CLI

CLI

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: exedev
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - 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
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/exedev.png
name: exe.dev
description: exe.dev is a cloud computing platform from Bold Software that provisions Linux VMs with persistent disks, instant
  HTTPS, and built-in authentication — all managed over SSH ("just use ssh"). It offers disposable Sandboxes for running AI-generated
  code, persistent VPS-style VMs, and Devbox cloud development environments, each reachable at https://<vm>.exe.xyz with automatic
  TLS. A companion HTTPS API (POST /exec) runs the same command surface with exe1. bearer tokens, and Shelley — a first-party,
  web-based coding agent — runs inside the VMs. exe.dev raised a $35M Series A and is backed by Amplify Partners. This profile
  was enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from the provider's public docs, llms.txt, GitHub org (boldsoftware), and well-known
  surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/exedev/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- amplify-partners
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- Cloud Computing
- Virtual Machines
- Sandbox
- AI Agents
- Infrastructure
- SSH
apis:
- name: exe.dev HTTPS API
  description: Programmatic access to the exe.dev command surface. POST the command exactly as typed in the ssh exe.dev REPL
    to https://exe.dev/exec with an exe1. bearer token; supported commands return JSON via --json.
  humanURL: https://exe.dev/docs/https-api.md
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://exe.dev/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://exe.dev/docs/https-api.md
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/exedev-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://blog.exe.dev/atom.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://exe.dev
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://exe.dev/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://exe.dev/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://exe.dev/docs/https-api.md
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://exe.dev/docs/what-is-exe.md
- type: Pricing
  url: https://exe.dev/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.exe.dev/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/boldsoftware
- type: Support
  url: https://exe.dev/docs/community.md
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://exe.dev/docs/terms-of-service.md
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://exe.dev/docs/privacy-notice.md
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/exedev-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/exedev-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/exedev-authentication.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/exedev-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/exedev-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/exedev-domain-security.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/exedev-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/exedev-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/exedev-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/exedev-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/exedev-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/exedev-packages.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/exedev-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/exedev-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/exedev-data-model.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/exedev-components.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/exedev-using-exe-dev.md
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

exe.dev API — frequently asked questions

Does exe.dev have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from exe.dev, including exe.dev HTTPS API.

How do I authenticate with the exe.dev API?

exe.dev documents its authentication (ssh-key/http-bearer/openIdConnect · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Exedev Authentication.

Is the exe.dev API ready for AI agents?

exe.dev has a Kin Score of 33.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 12.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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