pict-rs

pict-rs is an open-source, self-hosted image hosting service written in Rust. It provides a simple HTTP API for uploading, retrieving, and managing images, supporting features such as animated GIFs, video files, and configurable storage back‑ends. The project is maintained by the developer known as asonix and is hosted on a Forgejo instance, with documentation available in the repository README and a community chat on Matrix. It is licensed under AGPL‑3.0 and can be run via command‑line, Docker, or as a system service.

pict-rs publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Image Hosting, Rust, Open Source, API, and Self-hosted.

The pict-rs catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

pict-rs’ developer surface includes changelog, authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, and 19 more developer resources.

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31.2/100 thin Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 1 Agent Skills

Image Hosting Rust Open SourceAPISelf-hosted

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 31.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.0 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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 4 / 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 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% 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
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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

7 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 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 26.3 — up to +9.6 composite points

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APIs 1

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

pict-rs API

Simple image hosting service API as described in the repository README.

Agent Skills 1

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

get-actions-run

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pict Rs Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pict Rs Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

pict-rs API Rules

11 rules · 8 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Pict Rs Openapi Overlay

0 actions · update

UNRECORDED

Security Posture 3

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

Pict Rs Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Pict Rs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Pict Rs Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Pict Rs Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Vocabulary

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

Security

Authentication

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pict-rs
name: pict-rs
image: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/-/summary-card
description: pict-rs is an open-source, self-hosted image hosting service written in Rust. It provides a simple HTTP API for
  uploading, retrieving, and managing images, supporting features such as animated GIFs, video files, and configurable storage
  back‑ends. The project is maintained by the developer known as asonix and is hosted on a Forgejo instance, with documentation
  available in the repository README and a community chat on Matrix. It is licensed under AGPL‑3.0 and can be run via command‑line,
  Docker, or as a system service.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/pict-rs/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-28 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-28'
modified: '2026-10-28'
tags:
- Image Hosting
- Rust
- Open Source
- API
- Self-hosted
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/pict-rs-codeberg-security.txt
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/pict-rs-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/pict-rs-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/pict-rs-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/pict-rs-changelog.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/src/branch/main/SECURITY-POLICY.md
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pict-rs-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/pict-rs-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/pict-rs-conformance.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/pict-rs-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/pict-rs-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/pict-rs-hosts.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/pict-rs-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/pict-rs-packages.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/releases
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/pict-rs-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pict-rs-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/raw/branch/main/README.md
- type: APIReference
  url: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/raw/branch/main/README.md
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/raw/branch/main/README.md
- type: Support
  url: https://matrix.to/#/#pictrs:matrix.asonix.dog?via=matrix.asonix.dog
- type: Blog
  url: https://masto.asonix.dog/@asonix
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://masto.asonix.dog/privacy-policy
apis:
- name: pict-rs API
  description: Simple image hosting service API as described in the repository README.
  humanURL: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/raw/branch/main/README.md
  aid: pict-rs:pict-rs-api
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: partner-login
  detail: API endpoints require an X-Api-Token header, and the documentation does not provide a public contract.
  evidence:
  - url: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/raw/branch/main/README.md
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-10-28'
x-submission-probe: 200, 2026-10-26
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-28'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 31
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=oss,contract=oss,surfaces=oss,docs=oss,regulatory=oss

pict-rs API — frequently asked questions

Does pict-rs have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from pict-rs, including pict-rs API.

How do I authenticate with the pict-rs API?

pict-rs documents its authentication (3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Pict Rs Authentication.

Is the pict-rs API ready for AI agents?

pict-rs has a Kin Score of 31.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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