Gradle

Gradle Inc. (Gradle Technologies) is the company behind the open-source Gradle Build Tool, downloaded more than 25 million times a month across the Java, JVM, Android, Kotlin, C/C++, and native ecosystems, and Develocity (formerly Gradle Enterprise), its commercial Developer Productivity Engineering platform. Develocity adds Build Scan, Build Cache, Predictive Test Selection, and Test Distribution to accelerate and stabilize builds and tests. The Develocity API is a JSON REST API, described with OpenAPI, that provides programmatic access to build data, failures, tests, projects, project groups, Build Cache node configuration, Test Distribution agent pools, and short-lived access tokens on a self-hosted Develocity instance. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Berlin and Melbourne, Gradle raised a $27M Series C led by Triangle Peak Partners.

Gradle publishes 9 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Auth API, BuildCache API, Builds API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Company, Developer Tools, Build Automation, Developer Productivity, and CI/CD.

Gradle’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, signup flow, authentication, and 29 more developer resources.

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54.6/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Developer Tools Build Automation Developer Productivity CI/CDBuild AnalyticsTesting DevOps Java Build Cache

What this lets a business do 2

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

Software Product Engineering Management

BC-4200

FailuresTestDistributionTests

GET /api/tests/build/{id} GET /api/tests/cases GET /api/failures/builds/{id} GET /api/test-distribution/agent-pools

Software Release & Deployment Management

BC-4210

BuildCacheBuilds

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 54.6/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.6 / 17

Access Clarity 8.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 6.1 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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):

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)
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)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 50.0 — up to +12.5 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points
Access Clarity scores 50.0 — up to +10.0 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
Software Supply Chain (SBOM, Signing, Open Source Security)	standard	23.6 (thin)	-	1
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	23.6 (thin)	-	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.

APIs 9

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

Gradle Auth API

Endpoints related to Develocity authentication and authorization. The permissions required for these endpoints vary. Consult the endpoint descriptions.

Gradle BuildCache API

Endpoints related to configuring the Build Cache nodes of the Develocity instance. To access these endpoints the user requires the `Configure Build Caching` permission.

Gradle Builds API

Endpoints related to retrieving details of a build from the Develocity instance. To access these endpoints the user requires the `Access build data via the API` permission.

Gradle Comparison API

Endpoints for comparing two builds to identify differences in work unit inputs, dependencies, and other dimensions. To access these endpoints the user requires the `Access build...

Gradle Failures API

Endpoints related to retrieving details about failures of builds from the Develocity instance. To access these endpoints the user requires the `Access build data via the API` pe...

Gradle Meta API

Endpoints related to the Develocity installation and its state.

Gradle Projects API

Endpoints related to the management of project-level access control in Develocity. To access these endpoints the user requires the `Administer Projects` permission. **Beta: _The...

Gradle TestDistribution API

Endpoints related to the management of Test Distribution resources. To access these endpoints the user requires the `Admin` permission.

Gradle Tests API

Endpoints related to retrieving details of tests of the Develocity instance. To access these endpoints the user requires the `Access build data via the API` permission. The Deve...

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Open Collections 11

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Develocity Auth API

OPEN COLLECTION

Develocity Auth BuildCache API

OPEN COLLECTION

Develocity Auth Builds API

OPEN COLLECTION

Develocity Auth Comparison API

OPEN COLLECTION

Auth Develocity API

OPEN COLLECTION

Develocity Auth Failures API

OPEN COLLECTION

Develocity Auth GradleEnterprise API

OPEN COLLECTION

Develocity Auth Meta API

OPEN COLLECTION

Develocity Auth Projects API

OPEN COLLECTION

Develocity Auth TestDistribution API

OPEN COLLECTION

Develocity Auth Tests API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

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

Gradle MCP Server

Develocity ships official Model Context Protocol servers that give AI agents access to Develocity build data and analytics. Because Develocity is self-hosted, the MCP server is ...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

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

Inspect a build and its performance

AGENT SKILL

Manage Test Distribution agent pools

AGENT SKILL

Triage build failures

AGENT SKILL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Gradle Develocity Overlay

3 actions · update · gradle-develocity-openapi.yaml

DERIVED

Security Posture 4

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

Gradle Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Gradle Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Gradle Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Gradle Trust Center

SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

DataModel

Lifecycle

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

Authentication

Compliance

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

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Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: gradle
name: Gradle
description: Gradle Inc. (Gradle Technologies) is the company behind the open-source Gradle Build Tool, downloaded more than
  25 million times a month across the Java, JVM, Android, Kotlin, C/C++, and native ecosystems, and Develocity (formerly Gradle
  Enterprise), its commercial Developer Productivity Engineering platform. Develocity adds Build Scan, Build Cache, Predictive
  Test Selection, and Test Distribution to accelerate and stabilize builds and tests. The Develocity API is a JSON REST API,
  described with OpenAPI, that provides programmatic access to build data, failures, tests, projects, project groups, Build
  Cache node configuration, Test Distribution agent pools, and short-lived access tokens on a self-hosted Develocity instance.
  Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Berlin and Melbourne, Gradle raised a $27M Series C led
  by Triangle Peak Partners.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gradle/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- dcvc
- triangle-peak-partners
- true-ventures
- bain-capital-ventures
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: real-api-surface
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
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  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://assets.gradle.com/logo/develocity-logo.svg
tags:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- Build Automation
- Developer Productivity
- CI/CD
- Build Analytics
- Testing
- DevOps
- Java
- Build Cache
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: gradle:gradle-auth-api
  name: Gradle Auth API
  description: "Endpoints related to Develocity authentication and authorization. \nThe permissions required for these endpoints\
    \ vary.\nConsult the endpoint descriptions."
  humanURL: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
  baseURL: https://develocity.example.com/api
  tags:
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Auth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradle-auth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/api-manual/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
- aid: gradle:gradle-buildcache-api
  name: Gradle BuildCache API
  description: 'Endpoints related to configuring the Build Cache nodes of the Develocity instance.

    To access these endpoints the user requires the `Configure Build Caching` permission.'
  humanURL: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
  baseURL: https://develocity.example.com/api
  tags:
  - Build Cache
  tags_raw:
  - BuildCache
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradle-buildcache-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/api-manual/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
- aid: gradle:gradle-builds-api
  name: Gradle Builds API
  description: "Endpoints related to retrieving details of a build from the Develocity instance. \nTo access these endpoints\
    \ the user requires the `Access build data via the API` permission."
  humanURL: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
  baseURL: https://develocity.example.com/api
  tags:
  - Builds
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradle-builds-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/api-manual/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
- aid: gradle:gradle-comparison-api
  name: Gradle Comparison API
  description: 'Endpoints for comparing two builds to identify differences in work unit inputs, dependencies, and other dimensions.

    To access these endpoints the user requires the `Access build data via the API` permission.'
  humanURL: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
  baseURL: https://develocity.example.com/api
  tags:
  - Comparison
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradle-comparison-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/api-manual/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
- aid: gradle:gradle-failures-api
  name: Gradle Failures API
  description: "Endpoints related to retrieving details about failures of builds from the Develocity instance. \nTo access\
    \ these endpoints the user requires the `Access build data via the API` permission.\n\n**<mark>Beta:</mark> _The Failures\
    \ API is unstable and is likely to change in future._**"
  humanURL: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
  baseURL: https://develocity.example.com/api
  tags:
  - Failures
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradle-failures-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/api-manual/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
- aid: gradle:gradle-meta-api
  name: Gradle Meta API
  description: Endpoints related to the Develocity installation and its state.
  humanURL: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
  baseURL: https://develocity.example.com/api
  tags:
  - Meta
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradle-meta-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/api-manual/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
- aid: gradle:gradle-projects-api
  name: Gradle Projects API
  description: 'Endpoints related to the management of project-level access control in Develocity.

    To access these endpoints the user requires the `Administer Projects` permission.


    **<mark>Beta:</mark> _The Projects API is unstable and is likely to change in future._**'
  humanURL: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
  baseURL: https://develocity.example.com/api
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradle-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/api-manual/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
- aid: gradle:gradle-testdistribution-api
  name: Gradle TestDistribution API
  description: 'Endpoints related to the management of Test Distribution resources.

    To access these endpoints the user requires the `Admin` permission.'
  humanURL: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
  baseURL: https://develocity.example.com/api
  tags:
  - TestDistribution
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradle-testdistribution-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/api-manual/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
- aid: gradle:gradle-tests-api
  name: Gradle Tests API
  description: "Endpoints related to retrieving details of tests of the Develocity instance. \nTo access these endpoints the\
    \ user requires the `Access build data via the API` permission.\nThe Develocity installation also needs to have the Test\
    \ Failure Analytics feature enabled."
  humanURL: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
  baseURL: https://develocity.example.com/api
  tags:
  - Tests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gradle-tests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/api-manual/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/gradle/overview
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/gradle-capability-edges.yml
  name: Gradle Business Capability Map
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.develocity.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.develocity.ai/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/reference/develocity-api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/quickstart/
- type: Blog
  url: https://gradle.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/gradle
- type: Support
  url: https://community.gradle.org/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://scans.gradle.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://gradle.com/help/legal-terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://gradle.com/legal/privacy/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/gradle-develocity-openapi.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/gradle-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/gradle-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/gradle-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/gradle-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/gradle-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/gradle-security.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/gradle-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/gradle-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/gradle-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/gradle-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/gradle-trust-center.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/gradle-data-model.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/gradle-develocity-overlay.yaml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/gradle-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.gradle.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://docs.develocity.ai/2026.2/miscellaneous/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/gradle-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/gradle-cli.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gradle-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/gradle-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://github.com/gradle/.github/blob/master/SECURITY.md
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/gradle-trust-center.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Gradle API — frequently asked questions

Does Gradle have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 9 APIs from Gradle, including Gradle Auth API, Gradle BuildCache API and Gradle Builds API, and 6 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Gradle API?

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

How do I authenticate with the Gradle API?

Gradle uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Gradle Authentication.

Does Gradle have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Gradle: Develocity ships official Model Context Protocol servers that give AI agents access to Develocity build data and analytics. Because Develocity is self-hosted, the MCP server is exposed on the customer

Is the Gradle API ready for AI agents?

Gradle has a Kin Score of 54.6 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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