# Operant

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/operant/  
**Website:** https://operant.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Operant AI is a San Francisco-based runtime security company (founded 2021, backed by Felicis) that protects cloud and AI applications with real-time, Kubernetes-native "3D Runtime Defense" — discovery, detection, and defense across APIs, services, LLMs, and agents. Its platform delivers automatic API discovery and catalogs, API-to-API microsegmentation, protocol-specific authentication/authorization, traffic rate limiting, inline auto-redaction of sensitive/PII data, and OWASP/MITRE guardrails that block a majority of the OWASP Top 10 threats. Product lines include Agent Protector, Endpoint Protector, AI Gatekeeper, an MCP Gateway, and Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR). Operant is SOC 2 Type II compliant and publishes open-source tooling such as Woodpecker (red teaming for AI and cloud).

## Kin Score — 16.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Operant Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Operant Trust Center** — SOC 2 Type II

## Tags

Company, Security, API Security, AI Security, Runtime Security, Cloud Security, Kubernetes, Agentic AI, CADR, Detection and Response

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/operant/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.