# Kiota

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kiota/  
**Website:** https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openapi/kiota/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Kiota is Microsoft's open source (MIT) API client generator: a command line tool that turns any OpenAPI-described API into a strongly-typed, lightweight client in C#, Dart, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby or TypeScript. It exists to remove the need to take a dependency on a different hand-written SDK for every API you call. Kiota generates only the source it needs on top of a small per-language core library, keeps external dependencies minimal, and can target a filtered subset of a large description. Beyond code SDKs it also emits agent-facing plugin packages — apiplugin for Microsoft 365 Copilot declarative agents, openai manifests, and API Manifest permission snapshots. Kiota is a consumer of API descriptions rather than a publisher of an API: there is no Kiota endpoint, base URL, API key or status page. Its surface is a CLI, runtime libraries in eight package registries, a published OpenAPI extension vocabulary, and a nine-rule description validation ruleset it runs before every generation.

## Kin Score — 38.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (-0.7 from 39.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 70.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 33.3 |
| Contract Governance | 33.3 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 7.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Open Source (MIT) — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (1)

- **Kiota** — Kiota generates strongly-typed, lightweight API clients from OpenAPI descriptions in C#, Dart, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby and TypeScript, with minimal dependencies and idiomati...

## Security (3)

- **Kiota Authentication** — oauth2-device-code/apiKey/http-bearer/anonymous · 0 schemes
- **Kiota Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Kiota Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Kiota Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Code Generation, Microsoft, OpenAPI, SDK, Developer Tools, API Clients, Open-Source, CLI, JSON-Schema

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