Nucleus Security

Nucleus Security is a risk-based vulnerability and exposure management platform that unifies findings from across an organization's scanning estate - network, application, cloud, container and penetration-test tooling - into a single normalized view, then prioritizes and automates remediation against it. The platform ingests from roughly thirty first-party connectors (Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Snyk, Checkmarx, Crowdstrike, Orca, Prisma and others), enriches findings with threat intelligence including CISA KEV, EPSS, CVSS v3/v4 and Nucleus Insights exploitation signals, and drives remediation through ServiceNow, Jira and other ticketing systems. Programmatic access is a first-class deployment model: every platform capability is exposed through an API-key-authenticated REST API documented in-console with Swagger, and Nucleus ships a hosted Model Context Protocol server so AI clients can query Nucleus data under the same RBAC and Asset Group Access Control enforced in the UI. Nucleus also publishes an open, unauthenticated vulnerability intelligence API on its corporate domain, and a FedRAMP Moderate government offering, NucleusGov.

Nucleus Security publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Security, Cybersecurity, Vulnerability Management, and Exposure Management.

Nucleus Security’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, authentication, and 25 more developer resources.

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35.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Company Security Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management Exposure Management Risk Management Threat Intelligence Compliance DevSecOps MCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 35.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 15

Access Clarity 7.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 4.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

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 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 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

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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):

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)
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

6 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
Access Clarity scores 47.4 — up to +10.5 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 49.4 — up to +10.1 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
Cloud Security Attestation and Secure-by-Design	regulated	52.1	-	-
TX-RAMP Certified Cloud Products (Texas DIR)	regulated	52.1	-	-
ServiceNow Store (partner apps + ServiceNow Certified App)	regulated	52.1	-	-

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.

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 (templated)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 3

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

Nucleus Security Platform REST API

The Nucleus platform API. Every platform capability is exposed over REST, documented with Swagger inside the authenticated customer console, and authenticated with a static API ...

Nucleus MCP Server

Hosted remote Model Context Protocol server included with the Nucleus platform, reachable at a per-tenant URL. Exposes project, asset, finding/vulnerability and Nucleus Query La...

Nucleus Security Website (WordPress REST)

The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Nucleus Security website at nucleussec.com: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as one site surfac...

MCP Servers 1

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

Nucleus Security MCP Servers

Nucleus Security operates TWO distinct, real, remote Model Context Protocol servers. The product server is a documented per-tenant endpoint on the customer's own Nucleus instanc...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

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

nucleus-security-monitor-platform-status

AGENT SKILL

nucleus-security-triage-exploited-cves

AGENT SKILL

Nucleus Security API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Nucleus Security Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Nucleus Security Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 4

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

Nucleus Security Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Nucleus Security Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Nucleus Security Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Nucleus Security Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP Moderate, NIST CSF, CISA Secure by Design Pledge

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Nucleus Security Scopes

1 scope

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 8

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

Compliance

Compliance

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

SecurityTxt

DomainSecurity

OAuthScopes

Authentication

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Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

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

Source (apis.yml)

aid: nucleus-security
name: Nucleus Security
description: 'Nucleus Security is a risk-based vulnerability and exposure management platform that unifies findings from across
  an organization''s scanning estate - network, application, cloud, container and penetration-test tooling - into a single
  normalized view, then prioritizes and automates remediation against it. The platform ingests from roughly thirty first-party
  connectors (Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Snyk, Checkmarx, Crowdstrike, Orca, Prisma and others), enriches findings with threat
  intelligence including CISA KEV, EPSS, CVSS v3/v4 and Nucleus Insights exploitation signals, and drives remediation through
  ServiceNow, Jira and other ticketing systems. Programmatic access is a first-class deployment model: every platform capability
  is exposed through an API-key-authenticated REST API documented in-console with Swagger, and Nucleus ships a hosted Model
  Context Protocol server so AI clients can query Nucleus data under the same RBAC and Asset Group Access Control enforced
  in the UI. Nucleus also publishes an open, unauthenticated vulnerability intelligence API on its corporate domain, and a
  FedRAMP Moderate government offering, NucleusGov.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nucleus-security/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://nucleussec.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-Nucleus-Full-Color-Logo-270x270.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Security
- Cybersecurity
- Vulnerability Management
- Exposure Management
- Risk Management
- Threat Intelligence
- Compliance
- DevSecOps
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Nucleus Security Platform REST API
  description: The Nucleus platform API. Every platform capability is exposed over REST, documented with Swagger inside the
    authenticated customer console, and authenticated with a static API key in an x-apikey header. The base URL is templated
    per tenant - the instance name is the customer's own subdomain. Publicly documented operations cover project-scoped metrics,
    findings search, finding processing rules, bulk data export and async job polling.
  humanURL: https://help.nucleussec.com/docs/api-access
  baseURL: https://[instance-name].nucleussec.com/nucleus/api
  tags:
  - Vulnerability Management
  - Findings
  - Assets
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.nucleussec.com/docs/api-access
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/nucleus-security-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/nucleus-security-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/nucleus-security-lifecycle.yml
- name: Nucleus MCP Server
  description: Hosted remote Model Context Protocol server included with the Nucleus platform, reachable at a per-tenant URL.
    Exposes project, asset, finding/vulnerability and Nucleus Query Language tools to AI clients over OAuth, enforcing the
    same RBAC and Asset Group Access Control as the console, evaluated at query time. Tested by the provider with ChatGPT,
    Claude and Augment Code.
  humanURL: https://nucleussec.com/platform/mcp-server/
  baseURL: https://[your-nucleus-instance].nucleussec.com/nucleus/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Agents
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - AI
  - Agents
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/nucleus-security-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/nucleus-security-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.nucleussec.com/docs/nucleus-mcp-server
- aid: nucleus-security:nucleussec-com-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Nucleus Security Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Nucleus Security website at nucleussec.com: the route index
    of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://nucleussec.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nucleussec.com/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://nucleussec.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://help.nucleussec.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://help.nucleussec.com/docs/api-access
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.nucleussec.com/docs/quickstart
- type: Support
  url: https://nucleussec.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3
- type: Blog
  url: https://nucleussec.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/nucleus-security
- type: Pricing
  url: https://nucleussec.com/get-pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://nucleussec.com/legal/msa/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://nucleussec.com/privacy-policy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.nucleussec.com/
- type: Security
  url: security/nucleus-security-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/nucleus-security-trust-center.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/nucleus-security-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/nucleus-security-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/nucleus-security-security.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nucleus-security-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nucleus-security-well-known.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/nucleus-security-scopes.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nucleus-security-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/nucleus-security-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nucleus-security-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/nucleus-security-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/nucleus-security-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/nucleus-security-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/nucleus-security-rate-limits.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/nucleus-security-packages.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/nucleus-security-data-model.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/nucleus-security-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/nucleus-security-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nucleus-security-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 27
  pass: local-v1

Nucleus Security API — frequently asked questions

Does Nucleus Security have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Nucleus Security, including Nucleus Security Platform REST API, Nucleus MCP Server and Nucleus Security Website (WordPress REST).

How do I authenticate with the Nucleus Security API?

Nucleus Security documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Nucleus Security Authentication.

Does Nucleus Security have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Nucleus Security: Nucleus Security operates TWO distinct, real, remote Model Context Protocol servers. The product server is a documented per-tenant endpoint on the customer's own Nucleus instance; the website server i

Is the Nucleus Security API ready for AI agents?

Nucleus Security has a Kin Score of 35.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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