Pterodactyl

Pterodactyl is a free, open‑source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. It runs every game server in an isolated Docker container, providing a web‑based control panel, a daemon called Wings, and a RESTful API. The platform offers extensive documentation, including getting‑started guides, an API reference, and community‑contributed server templates via the Eggs portal.

Pterodactyl publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Admin API, Application API, Client API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Company, Game Server, Open Source, Docker, and API.

The Pterodactyl catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Pterodactyl’s developer surface includes changelog, authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, and 17 more developer resources.

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31.5/100 thin Agent 24/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 1 Agent Skills

CompanyGame ServerOpen Source DockerAPI

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 31.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 5.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Contract Quality scores 24.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Contract Governance scores 22.0 — up to +9.4 composite points

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APIs 8

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

Pterodactyl Admin API

The Admin API from Pterodactyl — 17 operation(s) for admin.

Pterodactyl Application API

The Application API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for application.

Pterodactyl Client API

The Client API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for client.

Pterodactyl Gpg API

The Gpg API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for gpg.

Pterodactyl Installer API

The Installer API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for installer.

Pterodactyl Pterodactyl API

The Pterodactyl API API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for pterodactyl api.

Pterodactyl Pterodactyl API

The Pterodactyl API from Pterodactyl — 3 operation(s) for pterodactyl.

Pterodactyl Setup 22 API

The Setup 22 API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for setup 22.

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Agent Skills 1

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

admin-extensions

AGENT SKILL

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Pterodactyl Context

16 classes · 32 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Pterodactyl API Rules

9 rules · 7 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

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.

Pterodactyl Openapi Generated Overlay

1 action · update

DERIVED

Pterodactyl Openapi Overlay

1 action · update

DERIVED

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

GetApiAdminExtensionsArchitectoSettingsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetApiAdminExtensionsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetApiApplicationUsersResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostApiAdminExtensionsArchitectoDisableResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostApiAdminExtensionsArchitectoEnableResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostApiAdminExtensionsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Pterodactyl Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Pterodactyl Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Pterodactyl Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Pterodactyl Agentic Access

33 operations · 13 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

33 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pterodactyl
name: Pterodactyl
description: Pterodactyl is a free, open‑source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. It runs every
  game server in an isolated Docker container, providing a web‑based control panel, a daemon called Wings, and a RESTful API.
  The platform offers extensive documentation, including getting‑started guides, an API reference, and community‑contributed
  server templates via the Eggs portal.
image: https://pterodactyl.io/favicon.svg?v=4
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/pterodactyl/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:
- Company
- Game Server
- Open Source
- Docker
- API
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pterodactyl-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/pterodactyl-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/pterodactyl-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/pterodactyl-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/pterodactyl-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/pterodactyl-changelog.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pterodactyl-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/pterodactyl-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/pterodactyl-openapi-generated-overlay.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/pterodactyl-llms.txt
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/pterodactyl-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/pterodactyl-vendors.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/security
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/releases
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pterodactyl-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://pterodactyl.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/panel/getting-started
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://eggs.pterodactyl.io/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pterodactyl
apis:
- aid: pterodactyl:pterodactyl-admin-api
  name: Pterodactyl Admin API
  description: The Admin API from Pterodactyl — 17 operation(s) for admin.
  humanURL: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/panel/updating
  tags:
  - Admin
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pterodactyl-admin-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-application-users-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-disable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-enable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-architecto-settings-response-schema.json
- aid: pterodactyl:pterodactyl-application-api
  name: Pterodactyl Application API
  description: The Application API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for application.
  humanURL: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/panel/updating
  tags:
  - Application
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pterodactyl-application-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-application-users-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-disable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-enable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-architecto-settings-response-schema.json
- aid: pterodactyl:pterodactyl-client-api
  name: Pterodactyl Client API
  description: The Client API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for client.
  humanURL: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/panel/updating
  tags:
  - Client
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pterodactyl-client-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-application-users-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-disable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-enable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-architecto-settings-response-schema.json
- aid: pterodactyl:pterodactyl-gpg-api
  name: Pterodactyl Gpg API
  description: The Gpg API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for gpg.
  humanURL: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/panel/updating
  tags:
  - Gpg
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pterodactyl-gpg-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-application-users-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-disable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-enable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-architecto-settings-response-schema.json
- aid: pterodactyl:pterodactyl-installer-api
  name: Pterodactyl Installer API
  description: The Installer API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for installer.
  humanURL: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/panel/updating
  tags:
  - Installer
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pterodactyl-installer-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-application-users-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-disable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-enable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-architecto-settings-response-schema.json
- aid: pterodactyl:pterodactyl-pterodactyl-api-api
  name: Pterodactyl Pterodactyl API
  description: The Pterodactyl API API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for pterodactyl api.
  humanURL: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/panel/updating
  tags:
  - Pterodactyl API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pterodactyl-pterodactyl-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-application-users-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-disable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-enable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-architecto-settings-response-schema.json
- aid: pterodactyl:pterodactyl-pterodactyl-api
  name: Pterodactyl Pterodactyl API
  description: The Pterodactyl API from Pterodactyl — 3 operation(s) for pterodactyl.
  humanURL: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/panel/updating
  tags:
  - Pterodactyl
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pterodactyl-pterodactyl-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-application-users-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-disable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-enable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-architecto-settings-response-schema.json
- aid: pterodactyl:pterodactyl-setup-22-api
  name: Pterodactyl Setup 22 API
  description: The Setup 22 API from Pterodactyl — 1 operation(s) for setup 22.
  humanURL: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/v2/panel/updating
  tags:
  - Setup 22
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pterodactyl-setup-22-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-application-users-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-disable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-architecto-enable-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-post-api-admin-extensions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pterodactyl-get-api-admin-extensions-architecto-settings-response-schema.json
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Pterodactyl API — frequently asked questions

Does Pterodactyl have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Pterodactyl, including Pterodactyl Admin API, Pterodactyl Application API and Pterodactyl Client API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Pterodactyl API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Pterodactyl, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Pterodactyl API?

Pterodactyl uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Pterodactyl Authentication.

Is the Pterodactyl API ready for AI agents?

Pterodactyl has a Kin Score of 31.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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