Forest Admin

Forest Admin is an ops orchestration platform and internal tool builder that enables operations and compliance teams to manage data, workflows, and business processes through a customizable admin panel. It uses an agent-based architecture where developers deploy a REST API agent (Admin Backend) on their own infrastructure, keeping data entirely within client-controlled servers. The platform supports Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python (Django/Flask), and PHP (Laravel/Symfony) agents that introspect data models and expose CRUD, filtering, pagination, and sorting capabilities through a generated Admin API. Forest Admin includes role-based access control (RBAC), JWT-based dual authentication, AI-assisted workflows, MCP server integration, SOC 2 compliance, and human-AI collaboration features for regulated industries such as fintech, KYC/AML, and payments operations.

Forest Admin publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: REST API (Admin Backend). Tagged areas include Admin Panel, Internal Tools, RBAC, Workflow-Automation, and CRUD.

The Forest Admin catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Forest Admin’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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35.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

Admin Panel Internal Tools RBAC Workflow-Automation CRUD Fintech Compliance Low-Code AI Agents

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 35.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.0 / 20

Access Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13

Contract Governance 1.8 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 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

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APIs 1

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

Forest Admin REST API (Admin Backend)

The Forest Admin Admin Backend is a REST API deployed on the customer's own infrastructure. It translates UI calls from the Forest Admin browser interface into database queries ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Forestadmin Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Forestadmin Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Forestadmin Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Forestadmin Context

12 classes · 20 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

Forestadmin Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Community

Community

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: forestadmin
name: Forest Admin
type: Index
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: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - url: https://www.forestadmin.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://forest.app/ — a different registrable domain (forestadmin.com -> forest.app),
      possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/forestadmin.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/forestadmin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: 2026-06-12
modified: 2026-06-12
specificationVersion: '0.23'
description: 'Forest Admin is an ops orchestration platform and internal tool builder that enables operations and compliance
  teams to manage data, workflows, and business processes through a customizable admin panel. It uses an agent-based architecture
  where developers deploy a REST API agent (Admin Backend) on their own infrastructure, keeping data entirely within client-controlled
  servers. The platform supports Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python (Django/Flask), and PHP (Laravel/Symfony) agents that introspect
  data models and expose CRUD, filtering, pagination, and sorting capabilities through a generated Admin API. Forest Admin
  includes role-based access control (RBAC), JWT-based dual authentication, AI-assisted workflows, MCP server integration,
  SOC 2 compliance, and human-AI collaboration features for regulated industries such as fintech, KYC/AML, and payments operations.

  '
tags:
- Admin Panel
- Internal Tools
- RBAC
- Workflow-Automation
- CRUD
- Fintech
- Compliance
- Low-Code
- AI Agents
tags_raw:
- admin panel
- internal tools
- RBAC
- workflow automation
- CRUD
- operations
- fintech
- compliance
- low-code
- AI agents
apis:
- aid: forestadmin:admin-api
  name: Forest Admin REST API (Admin Backend)
  description: 'The Forest Admin Admin Backend is a REST API deployed on the customer''s own infrastructure. It translates
    UI calls from the Forest Admin browser interface into database queries covering CRUD operations, search and filters, pagination,
    sorting, smart actions, and chart rendering. Authentication uses dual JWT tokens (FOREST_ENV_SECRET and FOREST_AUTH_SECRET).
    Agents are available for Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Django, Flask, Laravel, and Symfony.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation
  baseURL: https://app.forestadmin.com
  tags:
  - Admin
  - REST
  - CRUD
  - JWT
  - Collection
  - Actions
  - Charts
  tags_raw:
  - admin
  - REST
  - CRUD
  - JWT
  - collections
  - actions
  - charts
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation
  - type: NodeJsAgentReference
    url: https://forestadmin.github.io/agent-nodejs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://forestadmin.github.io/agent-nodejs/
  contact:
  - FN: Forest Admin Support
    url: https://www.forestadmin.com/forms/support
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/forestadmin-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.forestadmin.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ForestAdmin
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/forestadmin
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.forestadmin.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.forestadmin.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.forestadmin.com
- type: Community
  url: https://community.forestadmin.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/forestadmin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/forestadmin-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/forestadmin-finops.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/forestadmin-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/forestadmin-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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