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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29.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 29.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 14/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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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)

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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.
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- type: Conventions
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  url: security/minimus-trust-center.yml
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