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Kobalt

Kobalt Music Group is an independent music rights management and administrative publishing company founded in 2000 by Willard Ahdritz, operating from New York and London. Unlike traditional publishers it administers copyrights rather than owning them, running Kobalt Music Publishing, a neighbouring rights division, and AMRA, the digital-first collection society it acquired in 2014. Royalty and rights processing runs on KTech, the rights and content management platform built to independently serve both Kobalt Music Publishing and AMRA at the scale of billions of music micro-transactions, with songwriters and rightsholders viewing statements and analytics through the authenticated Kobalt Portal. Kobalt publishes no public developer program: a 2026-07-19 probe found no developer portal, no API documentation, no OpenAPI or AsyncAPI description, and no API discovery documents under /.well-known/. Integration is arranged commercially through Kobalt or KTech rather than through a self-service API.

Kobalt is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Music, Music Publishing, Rights Management, and Royalties.

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10.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 7/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyMusicMusic PublishingRights ManagementRoyaltiesCopyrightMedia and EntertainmentEnterprise

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 10.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
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Security Posture 2

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

Kobalt Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Kobalt Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login
Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 Security
Security
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kobalt
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kobalt.png
name: Kobalt
description: 'Kobalt Music Group is an independent music rights management and administrative publishing company founded in
  2000 by Willard Ahdritz, operating from New York and London. Unlike traditional publishers it administers copyrights rather
  than owning them, running Kobalt Music Publishing, a neighbouring rights division, and AMRA, the digital-first collection
  society it acquired in 2014. Royalty and rights processing runs on KTech, the rights and content management platform built
  to independently serve both Kobalt Music Publishing and AMRA at the scale of billions of music micro-transactions, with
  songwriters and rightsholders viewing statements and analytics through the authenticated Kobalt Portal. Kobalt publishes
  no public developer program: a 2026-07-19 probe found no developer portal, no API documentation, no OpenAPI or AsyncAPI
  description, and no API discovery documents under /.well-known/. Integration is arranged commercially through Kobalt or
  KTech rather than through a self-service API.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kobalt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: no-public-api-surface
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Music
- Music Publishing
- Rights Management
- Royalties
- Copyright
- Media and Entertainment
- Enterprise
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kobaltmusic.com
- type: Login
  url: https://portal.kobaltmusic.com
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kobalt-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/kobalt-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: https://www.kobaltmusic.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/kobalt-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kobalt-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kobalt-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence