Minimus

Minimus provides hardened, minimal container images designed for security-conscious teams. Its images are built from source with near-zero CVEs, rebuilt daily, and typically around 95% smaller than standard alternatives, with drop-in compatibility for existing workflows. Images ship audit-ready for compliance regimes including FedRAMP, NIST 800-190, FIPS 140-3, CIS, STIG, and SLSA L3, and the company is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified. The programmatic surface is the first-party minicli tool (manage private image recipes as code and trigger asynchronous builds), an open MinimOS apk package repository, and a generate-skills feature that makes the CLI agent-native for assistants such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor. Surfaced as a Mayfield portfolio company and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.

Minimus is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Container Images, Container Security, Supply Chain Security, and DevSecOps.

Minimus’ developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, CLI, and 15 more developer resources.

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33.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 5/100 human only Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 69/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Container Images Container Security Supply Chain Security DevSecOps Compliance CLIHardened Images

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 33.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.7 / 17

Access Clarity 10.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 5/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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

Pagination 5 / 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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% 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):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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 the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/minimus/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/minimus to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

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
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	standard	53.9	-	-
NIST CMVP FIPS 140 Validated Cryptographic Modules (FIPS 140-1 / 140-2 / 140-3)	standard	53.9	-	-

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 2

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.

DevSecOps

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

MCP Servers 1

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

Minimus MCP Server

Remote MCP server at docs.minimus.io over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 3

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

Minimus Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Minimus Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Minimus Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CLI

CLI

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

Authentication

Compliance

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: minimus
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/minimus.png
name: Minimus
description: Minimus provides hardened, minimal container images designed for security-conscious teams. Its images are built
  from source with near-zero CVEs, rebuilt daily, and typically around 95% smaller than standard alternatives, with drop-in
  compatibility for existing workflows. Images ship audit-ready for compliance regimes including FedRAMP, NIST 800-190, FIPS
  140-3, CIS, STIG, and SLSA L3, and the company is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified. The programmatic surface is the first-party
  minicli tool (manage private image recipes as code and trigger asynchronous builds), an open MinimOS apk package repository,
  and a generate-skills feature that makes the CLI agent-native for assistants such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor. Surfaced
  as a Mayfield portfolio company and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/minimus/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- mayfield
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Company
- Container Images
- Container Security
- Supply Chain Security
- DevSecOps
- Compliance
- CLI
- Hardened Images
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://minimus.io
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://images.minimus.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.minimus.io
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.minimus.io
- type: Support
  url: https://support.minimus.io
- type: Blog
  url: https://minimus.io/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://minimus.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://images.minimus.io/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://minimus.io/trust-center
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/67f93369f15385dea5315c58/6a4d2b80e927baf0df8db085_Minimus_-_Website_Terms_of_Use_June_2026.pdf
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://minimus.io/privacy-policy
- type: CLI
  url: cli/minimus-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/minimus-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/minimus-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/minimus-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/minimus-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/minimus-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/minimus-trust-center.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/minimus-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/minimus-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/minimus-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/minimus-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1

Minimus API — frequently asked questions

How do I authenticate with the Minimus API?

Minimus uses bearer-token authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Minimus Authentication.

Does Minimus have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Minimus: Remote MCP server at docs.minimus.io over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

Is the Minimus API ready for AI agents?

Minimus has a Kin Score of 33.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 4.7 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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MCP server

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

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