# Harness

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/harness/  
**Website:** https://developer.harness.io/docs/  
**APIs profiled:** 17

Harness is an AI-powered software delivery platform that automates and accelerates the entire software development lifecycle from code to production. The platform provides intelligent automation across DevOps, testing and resilience, security and compliance, and cost optimization, helping engineering teams ship code faster, safer, and smarter as they scale.

## Kin Score — 46.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 17.3 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 52.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 61.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 68.4 |
| Access Clarity | 68.4 |

## Agent readiness — 40.4 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (17)

- **Harness Platform API** — The Harness Platform API provides access to core platform resources including projects, organizations, connectors, secrets, users, roles, resource groups, service accounts, vari...
- **Harness Continuous Integration API** — The Harness CI module helps build faster with features including code building, testing, dependency management, artifact uploads, and build monitoring with AI-powered Test Intel...
- **Harness Continuous Delivery and GitOps API** — The Harness CD and GitOps module automates all steps necessary to get changes into production with APIs for pipelines, execution, input sets, triggers, and approvals supporting ...
- **Harness Feature Management and Experimentation API** — APIs to create and manage feature flags, targets, target groups, and tags for feature release management, performance monitoring, and A/B testing.
- **Harness Cloud Cost Management API** — Cloud cost management APIs for cost recommendations, AutoStopping rules, commitment orchestration, cost categories, anomaly detection, asset governance, and BI dashboards.
- **Harness Chaos Engineering API** — APIs for chaos engineering, load testing, and disaster recovery testing including chaos experiments, probes, actions, faults, and resilience scoring.
- **Harness Security Testing Orchestration API** — APIs for security vulnerability detection with over 40 scanner integrations for running scans, viewing results, and enforcing security policies across the software delivery life...
- **Harness Internal Developer Portal API** — Backstage-powered Internal Developer Portal APIs for software catalog management, self-service workflows, scorecards, and developer experience.
- **Harness Code Repository API** — Source control management APIs for repositories, collaboration tools, pull requests, and pipeline integration.
- **Harness Service Reliability Management API** — APIs for managing service level objectives, monitored services, and service dashboards for balancing feature velocity with reliability.
- **Harness Infrastructure as Code Management API** — APIs for defining, deploying, and managing infrastructure across environments with Terraform and IaC tool integration.
- **Harness Supply Chain Security API** — APIs for SBOM generation, artifact integrity verification, and policy enforcement for software supply chain security and compliance.
- **Harness Software Engineering Insights API** — APIs for accessing engineering metrics and analytics data to improve engineering productivity, efficiency, and alignment.
- **Harness Organizations API** — Manage organizations
- **Harness Pipeline Execution API** — Execute pipelines
- **Harness Pipelines API** — Manage pipelines
- **Harness Projects API** — Manage projects

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Harness Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 1 acting

## Security (3)

- **Harness Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Harness Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Harness Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, GDPR, CSA STAR

## Plans (1)

- **Harness Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **CI/CD Pipeline Automation** — Automate build, test, and deploy workflows across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
- **Progressive Feature Delivery** — Roll out features progressively with feature flags, canary deployments, and blue-green strategies.
- **Cloud Cost Management** — Optimize cloud spend with automated cost recommendations, idle resource detection, and budget alerts.
- **Security Compliance** — Enforce security policies with automated scanning, SBOM generation, and supply chain verification.
- **Platform Engineering** — Build internal developer platforms with self-service workflows, templates, and software catalogs.
- **SRE and Reliability** — Manage SLOs, monitor service health, and validate resilience with chaos engineering.

## Tags

DevOps, GitOps, Internal Developer Portal, Lifecycle, Software Delivery

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/harness/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.