Hacker Bob

Hacker Bob provides autonomous offensive-security testing using public CVE receipts. It offers read‑only REST, Model Context Protocol, Agent‑to‑Agent, NLWeb, and WebMCP access to cleared public CVE records. Private beta assessments are operator‑supervised and human‑reviewed. The platform runs on Node.js 20+, is open‑source under Apache‑2.0, and aims to help security researchers automate vulnerability validation and reporting.

Hacker Bob publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: NL Web API, Public CVE records API, and Service API. Tagged areas include Company, Security, Automation, CVE, and Offensive Security.

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

Hacker Bob’s developer surface includes sandbox, authentication, API reference, and 23 more developer resources.

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36.1/100 thin Agent 50/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

Company Security Automation CVE Offensive Security

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 36.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.6 / 17

Access Clarity 1.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 50/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 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 5 / 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

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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.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented) Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too Ask about this →
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's Ask about this →

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

Access Clarity scores 8.5 — up to +18.3 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 44.6 — up to +11.1 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 4

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)

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

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

Hacker Bob NL Web API

Natural-language search over the public record index.

Hacker Bob Public CVE records API

Cleared vulnerability records from Michalis Vasileiadis's research portfolio; Hacker Bob's assistance varied by case.

Hacker Bob Service API

Service metadata and capability discovery.

MCP Servers 1

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

Hacker Bob MCP Server

Remote MCP server at hackerbob.ai requiring OAuth.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

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

hackerbob-ai-fetch-cve-records

AGENT SKILL

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Hackerbob Ai Context

12 classes · 34 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Hacker Bob API Rules

62 rules · 58 error-severity 3 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

BatchResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Capabilities

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CveRecordPage

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CveRecord

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Health

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Sandbox

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Hacker Bob Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Hacker Bob Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Hacker Bob Agentic Access

7 operations

7 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

Sandbox

Sandbox

Sandbox

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Idempotency

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

AgentCard

AgentCard

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hackerbob-ai
name: Hacker Bob
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://hackerbob.ai/og.png
description: Hacker Bob provides autonomous offensive-security testing using public CVE receipts. It offers read‑only REST,
  Model Context Protocol, Agent‑to‑Agent, NLWeb, and WebMCP access to cleared public CVE records. Private beta assessments
  are operator‑supervised and human‑reviewed. The platform runs on Node.js 20+, is open‑source under Apache‑2.0, and aims
  to help security researchers automate vulnerability validation and reporting.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/hackerbob-ai/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-11 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-10'
modified: '2026-11-10'
tags:
- Company
- Security
- Automation
- CVE
- Offensive Security
tags_raw:
- Company
- Security
- Automation
- CVE
- OffensiveSecurity
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/hackerbob-ai-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/hackerbob-ai-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/hackerbob-ai-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/hackerbob-ai-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/hackerbob-ai-data-model.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/hackerbob-ai-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/hackerbob-ai-conventions.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/hackerbob-ai-sandbox.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hackerbob-ai-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/hackerbob-ai-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hackerbob-ai-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hackerbob-ai-llms.txt
- type: AgentCard
  url: a2a/hackerbob-ai-a2a.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/hackerbob-ai-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/hackerbob-ai-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/hackerbob-ai-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/hackerbob-ai-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/hackerbob-ai-vendors.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://hackerbob.ai/api/v1/sandbox
- type: SDKs
  url: https://hackerbob.ai/sdk/index.md
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hackerbob.ai/privacy
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://hackerbob.ai/developers
- type: APIReference
  url: https://hackerbob.ai/api-reference
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hackerbob-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hackerbob.ai/
apis:
- aid: hackerbob-ai:hackerbob-ai-nlweb-api
  name: Hacker Bob NL Web API
  description: Natural-language search over the public record index.
  humanURL: https://hackerbob.ai/api-reference
  baseURL: https://hackerbob.ai
  tags:
  - NLWeb
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackerbob-ai-nlweb-api-openapi.yml
- aid: hackerbob-ai:hackerbob-ai-public-cve-records-api
  name: Hacker Bob Public CVE records API
  description: Cleared vulnerability records from Michalis Vasileiadis's research portfolio; Hacker Bob's assistance varied
    by case.
  humanURL: https://hackerbob.ai/api-reference
  baseURL: https://hackerbob.ai
  tags:
  - Public CVE records
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackerbob-ai-public-cve-records-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackerbob-ai-cve-record-page-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackerbob-ai-cve-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackerbob-ai-batch-response-schema.json
- aid: hackerbob-ai:hackerbob-ai-service-api
  name: Hacker Bob Service API
  description: Service metadata and capability discovery.
  humanURL: https://hackerbob.ai/api-reference
  baseURL: https://hackerbob.ai
  tags:
  - Services
  tags_raw:
  - Service
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackerbob-ai-service-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackerbob-ai-sandbox-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackerbob-ai-capabilities-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackerbob-ai-health-schema.json
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-11'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 37
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Hacker Bob API — frequently asked questions

Does Hacker Bob have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Hacker Bob, including Hacker Bob NL Web API, Hacker Bob Public CVE records API and Hacker Bob Service API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Hacker Bob API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Hacker Bob, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Hacker Bob API?

Hacker Bob uses bearer-token authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Hacker Bob Authentication.

Does Hacker Bob have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Hacker Bob: Remote MCP server at hackerbob.ai requiring OAuth.

Is the Hacker Bob API ready for AI agents?

Hacker Bob has a Kin Score of 36.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 49.7 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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