# ORAS

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/oras/  
**Website:** https://oras.land/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 12.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 7.1 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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)

- **MCP Server**

## Security (1)

- **Oras Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Oras Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artifact Storage, Cloud-Native, Container Registry, OCI

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