ORAS

ORAS (OCI Registry As Storage) is a CNCF project that provides a CLI and a set of client libraries for pushing and pulling arbitrary OCI artifacts to and from OCI-compliant registries, allowing container registries to be used as a generic artifact distribution mechanism.

ORAS publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Artifact Storage, Cloud Native, Container Registry, and OCI.

ORAS’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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22.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemium

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Artifact StorageCloud NativeContainer RegistryOCI

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 22.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 14/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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

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APIs 2

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

ORAS CLI

Generic command-line registry client used to push and pull OCI artifacts to and from any OCI-compliant container registry.

ORAS Client Libraries

Client libraries for building custom OCI artifact tools and integrations on top of ORAS, available across multiple language ecosystems including Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, .N...

MCP Servers 1

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Oras Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Community

Community

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CNCF

CNCF

Source (apis.yml)

aid: oras
name: ORAS
description: ORAS (OCI Registry As Storage) is a CNCF project that provides a CLI and a set of client libraries for pushing
  and pulling arbitrary OCI artifacts to and from OCI-compliant registries, allowing container registries to be used as a
  generic artifact distribution mechanism.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/oras.png
tags:
- Artifact Storage
- Cloud Native
- Container Registry
- OCI
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/oras/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: oras:cli
  name: ORAS CLI
  description: Generic command-line registry client used to push and pull OCI artifacts to and from any OCI-compliant container
    registry.
  humanURL: https://oras.land/docs/
  tags:
  - CLI
  - OCI
  - Artifacts
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://oras.land/docs/
  - type: Installation
    url: https://oras.land/docs/installation
  - type: Commands
    url: https://oras.land/docs/commands/oras
  - type: Source Code
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras
- aid: oras:client-libraries
  name: ORAS Client Libraries
  description: Client libraries for building custom OCI artifact tools and integrations on top of ORAS, available across multiple
    language ecosystems including Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, .NET, and Java.
  humanURL: https://oras.land/docs/client_libraries/overview
  tags:
  - SDK
  - Libraries
  - OCI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://oras.land/docs/client_libraries/overview
  - type: Go
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras-go
  - type: Rust
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/rust-oci-client
  - type: Python
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras-py
  - type: JavaScript
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras-js
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/oras-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://oras.land/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://oras.land/docs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/oras-project
- type: Community
  url: https://oras.land/community/
- type: CNCF
  url: https://www.cncf.io/projects/oras/
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras-mcp
  type: MCPServer
- url: https://oras.land/blog/atom.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com