Jenkins

Jenkins is the leading open source automation server that enables developers to reliably build, test, and deploy software. Jenkins exposes a machine-consumable Remote Access API for nearly every resource it manages, available in XML (with XPath filtering), JSON (with JSONP), and a Python-compatible variant, and supports HTTP Basic auth with API tokens for scripted clients.

Jenkins is listed with 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Computer API, Jobs API, Queue API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Automation, Build Server, CI/CD, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Integration.

The Jenkins catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Jenkins’ developer surface includes authentication, changelog, CLI, getting-started guide, documentation, engineering blog, and 33 more developer resources.

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38.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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4 APIs 1 MCP Servers

AutomationBuild ServerCI/CD Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration DevOps Open SourceRemote Access API

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 Release & Deployment Management

BC-4210

JobsQueue

POST /job/{jobName}/build GET /job/{jobName}/{buildNumber}/api/json GET /queue/api/json

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 38.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.8 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 4.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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

Pagination 5 / 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):

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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
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)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 42.2 — up to +14.5 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 45.2 — up to +11.0 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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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
IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs)	gravity	53.9	-	-
Vulnerability Disclosure (CVE Numbering Authorities, FIRST member teams; CISA KEV exposure)	gravity	53.9	-	-
Jenkins Plugins + CD Foundation Landscape	gravity	53.9	-	-
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	gravity	53.9	-	-
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	gravity	53.9	-	-

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.

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

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

Jenkins Computer API

Connected build agents.

Jenkins Jobs API

Jenkins jobs and their builds.

Jenkins Queue API

The build queue.

Jenkins Server API

Information about the Jenkins instance.

Open Collections 5

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

Jenkins Remote Access Computer API

OPEN COLLECTION

Jenkins Remote Access Computer Jobs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Jenkins Remote Access Computer Queue API

OPEN COLLECTION

Jenkins Remote Access Computer Server API

OPEN COLLECTION

Jenkins Remote Access API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 4

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Jenkins Discover Jobs and Inspect the Latest Build

Enumerate the jobs on an instance, drill into one job, and read the detail of its most recent build.

ARAZZO

Jenkins Instance Health and Capacity Check

Read instance mode and executor count, check agents are online, and measure queue depth.

ARAZZO

Jenkins Trigger a Build and Await the Result

Trigger a parameterless job, watch it leave the queue, and poll the build until it finishes.

ARAZZO

Jenkins Trigger a Parameterized Build and Await the Result

Submit build parameters to a parameterized job, confirm it queued, and poll until it finishes.

ARAZZO

MCP Servers 1

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

Jenkins MCP Server

Remote MCP server over HTTP; 18 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Jenkins API pricing

Not yet checked against Jenkins's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Jenkins's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Jenkins Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Jenkins Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Jenkins

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Jenkins Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Jenkins API Rules

57 rules · 55 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

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.

Jenkins Openapi Overlay

4 actions · update · jenkins-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Jenkins Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Jenkins Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Jenkins Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Jenkins Agentic Access

8 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Conformance

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

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Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

CLI

CLI

Plugins

Plugins

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

SecurityAdvisories

SecurityAdvisories

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Tutorials

Tutorials

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

ChangeLog

Community

RoadMap

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Installation

Governance

Source (apis.yml)

aid: jenkins
name: Jenkins
description: Jenkins is the leading open source automation server that enables developers to reliably build, test, and deploy
  software. Jenkins exposes a machine-consumable Remote Access API for nearly every resource it manages, available in XML
  (with XPath filtering), JSON (with JSONP), and a Python-compatible variant, and supports HTTP Basic auth with API tokens
  for scripted clients.
type: Index
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: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/jenkins.png
tags:
- Automation
- Build Server
- CI/CD
- Continuous Delivery
- Continuous Integration
- DevOps
- Open Source
- Remote Access API
tags_raw:
- Automation
- Build Server
- CI/CD
- Continuous Delivery
- Continuous Integration
- DevOps
- Open Source
- Remote Access API
- Open-Source
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jenkins/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: jenkins:jenkins-computer-api
  name: Jenkins Computer API
  description: Connected build agents.
  humanURL: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/remote-access-api/
  tags:
  - Computer
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/jenkins-computer-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/remote-access-api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/system-administration/authenticating-scripted-clients/
  - type: APITokens
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/managing/system-configuration/#configuring-api-tokens
- aid: jenkins:jenkins-jobs-api
  name: Jenkins Jobs API
  description: Jenkins jobs and their builds.
  humanURL: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/remote-access-api/
  tags:
  - Job
  tags_raw:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/jenkins-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/remote-access-api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/system-administration/authenticating-scripted-clients/
  - type: APITokens
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/managing/system-configuration/#configuring-api-tokens
- aid: jenkins:jenkins-queue-api
  name: Jenkins Queue API
  description: The build queue.
  humanURL: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/remote-access-api/
  tags:
  - Queues
  tags_raw:
  - Queue
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/jenkins-queue-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/remote-access-api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/system-administration/authenticating-scripted-clients/
  - type: APITokens
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/managing/system-configuration/#configuring-api-tokens
- aid: jenkins:jenkins-server-api
  name: Jenkins Server API
  description: Information about the Jenkins instance.
  humanURL: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/remote-access-api/
  tags:
  - Servers
  tags_raw:
  - Server
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/jenkins-server-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/remote-access-api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/system-administration/authenticating-scripted-clients/
  - type: APITokens
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/managing/system-configuration/#configuring-api-tokens
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/jenkins-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/jenkins-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/jenkins-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/jenkins-capability-edges.yml
  name: Jenkins Business Capability Map
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/jenkins-trigger-build-and-await-result-workflow.yml
  name: Jenkins Trigger a Build and Await the Result
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/jenkins-trigger-parameterized-build-workflow.yml
  name: Jenkins Trigger a Parameterized Build and Await the Result
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/jenkins-inspect-job-latest-build-workflow.yml
  name: Jenkins Discover Jobs and Inspect the Latest Build
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/jenkins-instance-health-check-workflow.yml
  name: Jenkins Instance Health and Capacity Check
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/jenkins-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/jenkins-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/jenkins-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/jenkins-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/jenkins-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/jenkins-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/jenkins-security.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/jenkins-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/jenkins-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/jenkins-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/jenkins-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/jenkins-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/jenkins-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/jenkins-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/jenkins-cli.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/jenkins-data-model.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jenkinsio
- type: Website
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/tour/getting-started/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/
- type: Installation
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/
- type: Plugins
  url: https://plugins.jenkins.io/
- type: Tutorials
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/tutorials/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/node/
- type: Community
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/participate/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/jenkinsci
- type: SecurityAdvisories
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisories/
- type: Governance
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/project/governance/
- type: RoadMap
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/project/roadmap/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/privacy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/project/conduct/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Jenkins API — frequently asked questions

Does Jenkins have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Jenkins, including Jenkins Computer API, Jenkins Jobs API and Jenkins Queue API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Jenkins API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Jenkins, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Jenkins API?

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

How much does the Jenkins API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Jenkins, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Jenkins have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Jenkins: Remote MCP server over HTTP; 18 tools listed.

Is the Jenkins API ready for AI agents?

Jenkins has a Kin Score of 38.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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