Gogs

Gogs is a painless self‑hosted Git service that lets you run your own Git server with a simple, lightweight web UI. It supports repository creation, issue tracking, pull requests, webhooks, and integrates with LDAP and OAuth providers. Gogs is written in Go, easy to install on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and is suitable for teams that need a fast, low‑maintenance version‑control platform they can host themselves.

Gogs publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Administration API, Collaborators and Deploy Keys API, Issues API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Company, Version Control, Self-Hosted, Open Source, and Go.

The Gogs catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Gogs’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, and 15 more developer resources.

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33.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 55/100 slowing Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 4 Agent Skills

Company Version Control Self-Hosted Open Source Go A2A

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Software Product Engineering Management

BC-4200

IssuesRepositories

POST /user/repos POST /repos/migrate GET /repos/{owner}/{repo} GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 33.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.1 / 15

Access Clarity 0.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.0 / 9

Discoverability 4.8 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 8 / 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 0 / 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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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)
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Contract Quality scores 50.1 — up to +12.5 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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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.

Agent2Agent

measured — observed by APIs.io (conformant)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 10

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

Gogs API

RESTful API for interacting with Gogs instances, similar to GitHub REST API v3.

Gogs Administration API

Site administration endpoints (requires admin privileges)

Gogs Collaborators and Deploy Keys API

Manage repository collaborators and deploy keys

Gogs Issues API

Manage issues, comments, labels, and milestones

Gogs Miscellaneous API

Markdown rendering and Git data endpoints

Gogs Organizations API

Manage organizations, members, and teams

Gogs Releases API

List repository releases

Gogs Repositories API

Create, search, and manage repositories, branches, commits, and contents

Gogs Users API

Search users, manage access tokens, emails, followers, and public keys

Gogs Webhooks API

Create, edit, and delete repository webhooks

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Agent Skills 4

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

gogs-create-and-list-orgs

AGENT SKILL

gogs-create-issue-with-labels

AGENT SKILL

gogs-manage-follow

AGENT SKILL

gogs-webhooks-setup

AGENT SKILL

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Gogs Context

22 classes · 75 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Gogs API Rules

13 rules · 10 errors 1 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Gogs Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Gogs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Gogs Agentic Access

104 operations · 52 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

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

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Webhooks

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Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

AgentCard

AgentCard

Source (apis.yml)

aid: gogs
name: Gogs
image: https://unknwon.mintlify.app/mintlify-assets/_next/image?url=%2F_mintlify%2Fapi%2Fog%3Fdivision%3DGetting%2Bstarted%26title%3DIntroduction%26description%3DThe%2Bpainless%2Bway%2Bto%2Bhost%2Byour%2Bown%2BGit%2Bservice%26theme%3Dae1e6af0f2409a2f7f17f292&w=1200&q=100
description: Gogs is a painless self‑hosted Git service that lets you run your own Git server with a simple, lightweight web
  UI. It supports repository creation, issue tracking, pull requests, webhooks, and integrates with LDAP and OAuth providers.
  Gogs is written in Go, easy to install on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and is suitable for teams that need a fast, low‑maintenance
  version‑control platform they can host themselves.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gogs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:version-control
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-09-21 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-21'
modified: '2026-09-21'
tags:
- Company
- Version Control
- Self-Hosted
- Open Source
- Go
- A2A
tags_raw:
- Company
- Git
- Self-hosted
- Open-source
- Go
- Open-Source
- A2A
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/gogs-capability-edges.yml
  name: Gogs Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/gogs-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/gogs-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/gogs-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/gogs-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/gogs-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/gogs-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/gogs-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/gogs-llms.txt
- type: AgentCard
  url: a2a/gogs-a2a.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/gogs-well-known.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: https://gogs.io/advancing/webhooks
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/gogs-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gogs-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://gogs.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://gogs.io/llms.txt
- type: APIReference
  url: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://gogs.io/getting-started/introduction
- type: Support
  url: https://gogs.io/advancing/authentication
apis:
- name: Gogs API
  description: RESTful API for interacting with Gogs instances, similar to GitHub REST API v3.
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  baseURL: null
  aid: gogs:gogs-api
- aid: gogs:gogs-administration-api
  name: Gogs Administration API
  description: Site administration endpoints (requires admin privileges)
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  tags:
  - Administration
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gogs-administration-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gogs:gogs-collaborators-and-deploy-keys-api
  name: Gogs Collaborators and Deploy Keys API
  description: Manage repository collaborators and deploy keys
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  tags:
  - Collaborators and Deploy Keys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gogs-collaborators-and-deploy-keys-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gogs:gogs-issues-api
  name: Gogs Issues API
  description: Manage issues, comments, labels, and milestones
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  tags:
  - Issues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gogs-issues-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gogs:gogs-miscellaneous-api
  name: Gogs Miscellaneous API
  description: Markdown rendering and Git data endpoints
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Miscellaneous
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gogs-miscellaneous-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gogs:gogs-organizations-api
  name: Gogs Organizations API
  description: Manage organizations, members, and teams
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  tags:
  - Organization
  tags_raw:
  - Organizations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gogs-organizations-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gogs:gogs-releases-api
  name: Gogs Releases API
  description: List repository releases
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  tags:
  - Releases
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gogs-releases-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gogs:gogs-repositories-api
  name: Gogs Repositories API
  description: Create, search, and manage repositories, branches, commits, and contents
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  tags:
  - Repositories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gogs-repositories-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gogs:gogs-users-api
  name: Gogs Users API
  description: Search users, manage access tokens, emails, followers, and public keys
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gogs-users-api-openapi.yml
- aid: gogs:gogs-webhooks-api
  name: Gogs Webhooks API
  description: Create, edit, and delete repository webhooks
  humanURL: https://gogs.io/api-reference/introduction
  tags:
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gogs-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: OpenAPI spec points to https://gogs.example.com/api/v1, a domain not owned by Gogs, so ownership cannot be verified.
  evidence:
  - url: https://gogs.io/api-reference/openapi.json
    status: 200
  checked: 2026-09-21
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 21
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local
x-a2a:
  verified: true
  probed: '2026-09-26'
  url: https://gogs.io/.well-known/agent-card.json
  grade: conformant
  protocol_version: '0.3'
  control: 404

Gogs API — frequently asked questions

Does Gogs have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from Gogs, including Gogs API, Gogs Administration API and Gogs Collaborators and Deploy Keys API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Gogs API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for Gogs, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Gogs API?

Gogs uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Gogs Authentication.

Is the Gogs API ready for AI agents?

Gogs has a Kin Score of 33.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-01.

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