Kubescape

Kubescape is an open-source (Apache 2.0) Kubernetes security platform and CNCF incubating project, originally contributed by ARMO. It provides risk analysis, security and compliance posture scanning, misconfiguration detection, image and runtime vulnerability scanning, and eBPF-based runtime threat detection across the IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and live clusters. The core Kubescape is a CLI and an in-cluster Operator whose components expose OpenAPI/Swagger-documented HTTP APIs in-cluster (there is no single hosted public REST endpoint for the open-source tool). ARMO Platform is the commercial multi-cluster, multi-cloud SaaS built on Kubescape and exposes a documented hosted Customer API (base https://api.armosec.io) for posture, compliance, vulnerabilities, runtime incidents, attack paths, network policies, and registry/repository scanning, authenticated with an X-API-KEY access key.

Kubescape publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Access Keys API, Network Policies API, Posture & Compliance API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Kubernetes Security, Cloud Native Security, Container Security, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes.

Kubescape’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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39.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

7 APIs

Kubernetes SecurityCloud Native SecurityContainer SecurityDevSecOpsKubernetesVulnerability ScanningComplianceRuntime SecurityCNCFOpen Source

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 39.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 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

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APIs 7

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kubescape Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kubescape
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kubescape/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Kubescape
kind: organization
description: Kubescape is an open-source (Apache 2.0) Kubernetes security platform and CNCF incubating project, originally
  contributed by ARMO. It provides risk analysis, security and compliance posture scanning, misconfiguration detection, image
  and runtime vulnerability scanning, and eBPF-based runtime threat detection across the IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and live clusters.
  The core Kubescape is a CLI and an in-cluster Operator whose components expose OpenAPI/Swagger-documented HTTP APIs in-cluster
  (there is no single hosted public REST endpoint for the open-source tool). ARMO Platform is the commercial multi-cluster,
  multi-cloud SaaS built on Kubescape and exposes a documented hosted Customer API (base https://api.armosec.io) for posture,
  compliance, vulnerabilities, runtime incidents, attack paths, network policies, and registry/repository scanning, authenticated
  with an X-API-KEY access key.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kubescape.png
tags:
- Kubernetes Security
- Cloud Native Security
- Container Security
- DevSecOps
- Kubernetes
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Compliance
- Runtime Security
- CNCF
- Open Source
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: kubescape:kubescape-in-cluster-component-api
  name: Kubescape In-Cluster Component API (Open Source)
  tags:
  - Kubernetes Security
  - Open Source
  - Operator
  - OpenAPI
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.armosec.io/blog/introducing-kubescape-open-api-framework/
  baseURL: http://<service-ip>:<service-port>
  properties:
  - url: https://www.armosec.io/blog/introducing-kubescape-open-api-framework/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://kubescape.io/docs/operator/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/kubescape
    type: SourceCode
  description: The open-source Kubescape Operator's in-cluster components (storage, kubevuln, gateway, operator, node-agent)
    each expose an OpenAPI/Swagger-documented HTTP API reachable inside the cluster at /openapi/v2/swaggerui, /openapi/v2/rapi,
    and /openapi/v2/docs. There is no hosted public endpoint - the base URL is the in-cluster Service address, so endpoints
    are modeled rather than called over a single fixed public host.
- aid: kubescape:kubescape-access-keys-api
  name: Kubescape Access Keys API
  description: Agent access keys and exception policies.
  humanURL: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  baseURL: https://api.armosec.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Access Keys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubescape-access-keys-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/armo-swagger-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/authentication
- aid: kubescape:kubescape-network-policies-api
  name: Kubescape Network Policies API
  description: Generated NetworkPolicies and seccomp profiles.
  humanURL: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  baseURL: https://api.armosec.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Network Policies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubescape-network-policies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/armo-swagger-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/authentication
- aid: kubescape:kubescape-posture-compliance-api
  name: Kubescape Posture & Compliance API
  description: Framework, control, and resource posture results.
  humanURL: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  baseURL: https://api.armosec.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Posture & Compliance
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubescape-posture-compliance-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/armo-swagger-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/authentication
- aid: kubescape:kubescape-registry-repository-api
  name: Kubescape Registry & Repository API
  description: Registry scans and Git repository posture.
  humanURL: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  baseURL: https://api.armosec.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Registry & Repository
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubescape-registry-repository-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/armo-swagger-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/authentication
- aid: kubescape:kubescape-runtime-security-api
  name: Kubescape Runtime Security API
  description: Runtime incidents, attack chains, and security risks.
  humanURL: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  baseURL: https://api.armosec.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Runtime Security
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubescape-runtime-security-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/armo-swagger-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/authentication
- aid: kubescape:kubescape-vulnerabilities-api
  name: Kubescape Vulnerabilities API
  description: Image and workload vulnerability scanning and results.
  humanURL: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  baseURL: https://api.armosec.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Vulnerabilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubescape-vulnerabilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/armo-swagger-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/reference/customer-api
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/kubescape.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hub.armosec.io/docs/authentication
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/kubescape-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kubescape-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kubescape-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kubescape
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/armosec
- type: Website
  url: https://kubescape.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://kubescape.io/docs/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kubescape-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kubescape-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/kubescape-finops.yml
- url: https://kubescape.io/blog/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Kubescape

Kin Score

APIs 7

Kubescape In-Cluster Component API (Open Source)

Kubescape Access Keys API

Kubescape Network Policies API

Kubescape Posture & Compliance API

Kubescape Registry & Repository API

Kubescape Runtime Security API

Kubescape Vulnerabilities API

Open Collections 1

ARMO Platform Customer API (Kubescape)

Pricing Plans 1

Kubescape Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Kubescape Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Kubescape Finops

Security Posture 2

Kubescape Authentication

Kubescape Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Kubescape Agentic Access