LucidLink

LucidLink Corp. is a cloud file-streaming company whose product is a "filespace" — a shared, cloud-native filesystem that mounts on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android and streams only the bytes an application actually asks for, so distributed teams can open multi-gigabyte media, design and AEC files directly from S3 object storage without syncing or downloading them first. LucidLink is built around a zero-knowledge encryption model in which the customer holds the keys, which shapes its developer surface: the LucidLink Developer Platform ships a public cloud Service API for domain, filespace and billing management (OAuth2 client-credentials, Swagger 2.0 reference published at api.lucidlink.com), a self-hosted Management API delivered as a Docker container so administrative calls never traverse LucidLink infrastructure, a beta Python SDK on PyPI, LucidLink Connect for linking external S3 objects into a filespace, and a beta MCP server that exposes filespace read, write, search, locking and audit operations as tools for MCP-compatible agents.

LucidLink publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Billing API, Domain API, Filespace API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud Storage, File Streaming, File Collaboration, and Media and Entertainment.

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

LucidLink’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 29 more developer resources.

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61.6/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Cloud StorageFile StreamingFile CollaborationMedia and Entertainment Object Storage Developer Platform MCP AI AgentsZero-Knowledge Encryption

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Subscription Billing & Revenue Management

BC-4250

Billing

PATCH /billing/payment GET /billing/invoices

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 61.6/100 · strong

Contract Quality 8.1 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 15

Access Clarity 12.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.3 / 10

Contract Governance 2.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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 0 / 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):

Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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)
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):

Contract Quality scores 43.3 — up to +14.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 34.2 — up to +8.6 composite points
Contract Governance scores 31.8 — up to +8.2 composite points

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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
Film & Media Identifiers (EIDR, ISAN, MovieLabs, DPP)	builds-on	39.5	-	-
Adobe Exchange (publishers of Creative Cloud, Experience Cloud and Document Cloud integrations)	builds-on	39.5	-	-

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 3

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)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 5

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

LucidLink Management API

The self-hosted administrative REST API for the new LucidLink platform, delivered as the lucidlink/lucidlink-api Docker image and run on customer infrastructure so that LucidLin...

LucidLink Web Service API v2

The LucidLink-hosted workspace web service used by the LucidLink apps and by the admin tool surface of the official LucidLink MCP server. Exposes service accounts, workspaces, m...

LucidLink Billing API

Billing operations.

LucidLink Domain API

Domain operations.

LucidLink Filespace API

Filespace operations.

MCP Servers 1

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

LucidLink MCP Server

Official LucidLink MCP server (beta). Gives MCP-compatible agents a shared, persistentLucidLink filespace they can read, write, search, lock and audit — the "shared datalayer fo...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

lucidlink-agent-filespace-session

AGENT SKILL

lucidlink-onboard-team-member

AGENT SKILL

lucidlink-provision-project-filespace

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Lucidlink Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Lucidlink Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Lucidlink Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Lucidlink Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

LucidLink API Rules

49 rules · 44 errors 3 warnings 2 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.

Lucidlink Service Api Overlay

10 actions · update · lucidlink-service-api.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Lucidlink Authentication

oauth2/http-bearer · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Lucidlink Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Lucidlink Trust Center

SOC 2 Type I, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, TPN (Trusted Partner Network), TPN Gold Shield, GDPR, CCPA

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Lucidlink Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

CLI

Packages

SDKs

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

OAuthScopes

Compliance

Authentication

DomainSecurity

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

ChangeLog

RateLimits

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lucidlink
name: LucidLink
description: 'LucidLink Corp. is a cloud file-streaming company whose product is a "filespace" — a shared, cloud-native filesystem
  that mounts on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android and streams only the bytes an application actually asks for, so distributed
  teams can open multi-gigabyte media, design and AEC files directly from S3 object storage without syncing or downloading
  them first. LucidLink is built around a zero-knowledge encryption model in which the customer holds the keys, which shapes
  its developer surface: the LucidLink Developer Platform ships a public cloud Service API for domain, filespace and billing
  management (OAuth2 client-credentials, Swagger 2.0 reference published at api.lucidlink.com), a self-hosted Management API
  delivered as a Docker container so administrative calls never traverse LucidLink infrastructure, a beta Python SDK on PyPI,
  LucidLink Connect for linking external S3 objects into a filespace, and a beta MCP server that exposes filespace read, write,
  search, locking and audit operations as tools for MCP-compatible agents.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lucidlink/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://dhgs2q3hgrx0j.cloudfront.net/lucidlink_logo_846354e8f3.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-25'
modified: '2026-08-25'
tags:
- Company
- Cloud Storage
- File Streaming
- File Collaboration
- Media and Entertainment
- Object Storage
- Developer Platform
- MCP
- AI Agents
- Zero-Knowledge Encryption
tags_raw:
- Company
- Cloud Storage
- File Streaming
- File Collaboration
- Media and Entertainment
- Object Storage
- Developer Platform
- MCP
- Agentic AI
- Zero-Knowledge Encryption
apis:
- name: LucidLink Management API
  description: The self-hosted administrative REST API for the new LucidLink platform, delivered as the lucidlink/lucidlink-api
    Docker image and run on customer infrastructure so that LucidLink's zero-knowledge model is preserved. Covers members,
    groups, permissions, filespaces, directory entries, direct links, storage providers and health. Auth is a service-account
    secret key sent as an Authorization Bearer token. Interactive Swagger documentation is generated and served by the container
    itself at /api/v1/docs, so the OpenAPI document is only reachable once the container is running on the customer host.
  humanURL: https://support.lucidlink.com/hc/en-us/articles/40221355571725-LucidLink-API-Overview
  baseURL: http://{api-container-host}:3003/api/v1
  tags:
  - Members
  - Group
  - Permissions
  - Filespaces
  - Directories
  tags_raw:
  - Members
  - Groups
  - Permissions
  - Filespaces
  - Directories
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.lucidlink.com/hc/en-us/articles/40235274774797-API-Key-Functionalities-Common-Automation-Scenarios
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://support.lucidlink.com/hc/en-us/articles/40221700126605-Deployment-Usage-LucidLink-API-Container
- name: LucidLink Web Service API v2
  description: The LucidLink-hosted workspace web service used by the LucidLink apps and by the admin tool surface of the
    official LucidLink MCP server. Exposes service accounts, workspaces, members, groups, filespaces and member roles under
    /api/v2. Authenticated with a service-account bearer token; LucidLink publishes no standalone reference for it, so the
    endpoint inventory recorded here was read from LucidLink's own published lucidlink-mcp package and confirmed against live
    401 responses.
  humanURL: https://www.lucidlink.com/developer-platform
  baseURL: https://api.lucidlink.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Workspace
  - Members
  - Group
  - Service Accounts
  tags_raw:
  - Workspaces
  - Members
  - Groups
  - Service Accounts
- aid: lucidlink:lucidlink-billing-api
  name: LucidLink Billing API
  description: Billing operations.
  humanURL: https://api.lucidlink.com/docs/api/v1/
  baseURL: https://api.lucidlink.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Billing
  tags_raw:
  - billing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lucidlink-billing-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.lucidlink.com/docs/api/v1/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/lucidlink-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/lucidlink-data-model.yml
- aid: lucidlink:lucidlink-domain-api
  name: LucidLink Domain API
  description: Domain operations.
  humanURL: https://api.lucidlink.com/docs/api/v1/
  baseURL: https://api.lucidlink.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Domain
  tags_raw:
  - domain
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lucidlink-domain-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.lucidlink.com/docs/api/v1/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/lucidlink-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/lucidlink-data-model.yml
- aid: lucidlink:lucidlink-filespace-api
  name: LucidLink Filespace API
  description: Filespace operations.
  humanURL: https://api.lucidlink.com/docs/api/v1/
  baseURL: https://api.lucidlink.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - filespace
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lucidlink-filespace-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.lucidlink.com/docs/api/v1/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/lucidlink-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/lucidlink-data-model.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/lucidlink-capability-edges.yml
  name: LucidLink Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/lucidlink-service-api-overlay.yaml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/lucidlink-trust-center.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/lucidlink-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.lucidlink.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.lucidlink.com/developer-platform
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.lucidlink.com/hc/en-us/sections/45107391668493-LucidLink-Developer-Platform
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.lucidlink.com/docs/api/v1/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://support.lucidlink.com/hc/en-us/articles/40221700126605-Deployment-Usage-LucidLink-API-Container
- type: Support
  url: https://support.lucidlink.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.lucidlink.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/LucidLink
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.lucidlink.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.lucidlink.com/register
- type: Login
  url: https://app.lucidlink.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.lucidlink.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.lucidlink.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.lucidlink.com/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.lucidlink.com/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://support.lucidlink.com/hc/en-us/sections/31125638256269-Release-notes
- type: Plans
  url: plans/lucidlink-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/lucidlink-rate-limits.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lucidlink-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/lucidlink-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/lucidlink-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/lucidlink-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/lucidlink-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/lucidlink-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/lucidlink-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/lucidlink-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/lucidlink-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lucidlink-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lucidlink-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lucidlink-domain-security.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/lucidlink-sandbox.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-25'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v1
x-tags-removed:
- Identity and Access Management

LucidLink API — frequently asked questions

Does LucidLink have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from LucidLink, including LucidLink Management API, LucidLink Web Service API v2 and LucidLink Billing API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the LucidLink API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for LucidLink, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the LucidLink API?

LucidLink documents its authentication (oauth2/http-bearer · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Lucidlink Authentication.

How much does the LucidLink API cost?

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

Does LucidLink have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for LucidLink: Official LucidLink MCP server (beta). Gives MCP-compatible agents a shared, persistent LucidLink filespace they can read, write, search, lock and audit — the "shared data layer for agentic AI" LucidLi

Is the LucidLink API ready for AI agents?

LucidLink has a Kin Score of 61.6 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 31.3 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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