LittleHorse

LittleHorse is an open source workflow engine for orchestrating distributed systems with support for Java, Go, Python, and .NET.

LittleHorse publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including External Events API, Node Runs API, Task Definitions API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Microservices.

LittleHorse’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 5 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

19.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFreemium

1 published contract

Microservices

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 19.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 7.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 15

Access Clarity 2.4 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 2.9 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 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

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/.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/littlehorse: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

APIs 6

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

LittleHorse External Events API

The External Events API from LittleHorse — 3 operation(s) for external events.

LittleHorse Node Runs API

The Node Runs API from LittleHorse — 1 operation(s) for node runs.

LittleHorse Task Definitions API

The Task Definitions API from LittleHorse — 2 operation(s) for task definitions.

LittleHorse User Tasks API

The User Tasks API from LittleHorse — 3 operation(s) for user tasks.

LittleHorse Workflow Runs API

The Workflow Runs API from LittleHorse — 5 operation(s) for workflow runs.

LittleHorse Workflow Specs API

The Workflow Specs API from LittleHorse — 2 operation(s) for workflow specs.

Open Collections 8

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

LittleHorse REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

LittleHorse REST External Events API

OPEN COLLECTION

LittleHorse REST External Events Node Runs API

OPEN COLLECTION

LittleHorse REST External Events Task Definitions API

OPEN COLLECTION

LittleHorse REST External Events User Tasks API

OPEN COLLECTION

LittleHorse REST External Events Workflow Runs API

OPEN COLLECTION

LittleHorse REST External Events Workflow Specs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scroll for all 8

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Littlehorse Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Littlehorse Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Littlehorse Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Littlehorse Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Littlehorse Agentic Access

22 operations · 12 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

22 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: littlehorse
name: LittleHorse
description: LittleHorse is an open source workflow engine for orchestrating distributed systems with support for Java, Go,
  Python, and .NET.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/littlehorse.png
tags:
- Microservices
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/littlehorse/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: littlehorse:littlehorse-external-events-api
  name: LittleHorse External Events API
  description: The External Events API from LittleHorse — 3 operation(s) for external events.
  humanURL: https://littlehorse.dev/
  tags:
  - external-events
  tags_raw:
  - External Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/littlehorse-external-events-api-openapi.yml
- aid: littlehorse:littlehorse-node-runs-api
  name: LittleHorse Node Runs API
  description: The Node Runs API from LittleHorse — 1 operation(s) for node runs.
  humanURL: https://littlehorse.dev/
  tags:
  - Node Runs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/littlehorse-node-runs-api-openapi.yml
- aid: littlehorse:littlehorse-task-definitions-api
  name: LittleHorse Task Definitions API
  description: The Task Definitions API from LittleHorse — 2 operation(s) for task definitions.
  humanURL: https://littlehorse.dev/
  tags:
  - Task Definitions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/littlehorse-task-definitions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: littlehorse:littlehorse-user-tasks-api
  name: LittleHorse User Tasks API
  description: The User Tasks API from LittleHorse — 3 operation(s) for user tasks.
  humanURL: https://littlehorse.dev/
  tags:
  - User Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/littlehorse-user-tasks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: littlehorse:littlehorse-workflow-runs-api
  name: LittleHorse Workflow Runs API
  description: The Workflow Runs API from LittleHorse — 5 operation(s) for workflow runs.
  humanURL: https://littlehorse.dev/
  tags:
  - Workflow Runs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/littlehorse-workflow-runs-api-openapi.yml
- aid: littlehorse:littlehorse-workflow-specs-api
  name: LittleHorse Workflow Specs API
  description: The Workflow Specs API from LittleHorse — 2 operation(s) for workflow specs.
  humanURL: https://littlehorse.dev/
  tags:
  - Workflow Specs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/littlehorse-workflow-specs-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/littlehorse-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/littlehorse-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/littlehorse-enterprises
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/littlehorse
- type: Website
  url: https://littlehorse.dev/
- url: https://littlehorse.dev/blog/rss.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Work with this as data

Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for providers

9 MCP tools reach this

find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This provider

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/littlehorse"

All providers

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/littlehorse/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/littlehorse/evidence"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.