Radicle

Radicle is a sovereign, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git, developed by Radicle (radicle.dev) and backed by Electric Capital. Instead of relying on a central host, every user runs their own node, and repositories, issues and patches replicate across the network as cryptographically-signed Collaborative Objects (COBs). The stack ships the `rad` command-line tooling, the Heartwood protocol and node, a terminal UI, a desktop app, and a web explorer. Each node can run `radicle-httpd`, a lightweight HTTP daemon that exposes a read-oriented JSON API over the node's storage — repositories, issues, patches, commits, source trees, node info and network statistics — which powers the Radicle web explorer and third-party tooling. Identity is key-based (DIDs / did:key), so there are no accounts, passwords or platform lock-in. This profile was enriched from Radicle's public surface: the live seed node API, the security.txt, the Heartwood source, and the CLI manuals.

Radicle publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Issues API, Node API, Patches API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Company, Developer Tools, Code Collaboration, Version Control, and Peer-to-Peer.

The Radicle catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Radicle’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, API reference, engineering blog, FAQ, support, CLI, and 21 more developer resources.

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47.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessOpen

1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Company Developer ToolsCode CollaborationVersion Control Peer-to-Peer Open Source DecentralizedDeveloper Tools API

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Software Product Engineering Management

BC-4200

IssuesPatchesRepositoriesSource

GET /repos/{rid}/commits GET /repos/{rid}/blob/{sha}/{path} GET /repos/{rid}/patches GET /repos/{rid}/issues

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 47.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 4 / 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 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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 does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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):

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
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 28.6 — up to +14.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 47.7 — up to +13.1 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 7

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

Radicle Issues API

Repository issues (collaborative objects)

Radicle Node API

Node identity, configuration and peers

Radicle Patches API

Repository patches (change proposals)

Radicle Repositories API

Radicle repositories seeded by the node

Radicle Service API

API root and service metadata

Radicle Source API

Commits, trees, blobs and READMEs

Radicle Stats API

Aggregate node statistics

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Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Radicle HTTP API (radicle-httpd) Issues API

OPEN COLLECTION

Radicle HTTP API (radicle-httpd) Issues Node API

OPEN COLLECTION

Radicle HTTP API (radicle-httpd) Issues Patches API

OPEN COLLECTION

Radicle HTTP API (radicle-httpd) Issues Repositories API

OPEN COLLECTION

Radicle HTTP API (radicle-httpd) Issues Service API

OPEN COLLECTION

Radicle HTTP API (radicle-httpd) Issues Source API

OPEN COLLECTION

Radicle HTTP API (radicle-httpd) Issues Stats API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Agent Skills 2

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

Browse a Radicle repository

AGENT SKILL

Read Radicle source code

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Radicle API Rules

53 rules · 51 errors 1 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.

Radicle Httpd Overlay

2 actions · update · radicle-httpd-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Radicle Authentication

none/session · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Radicle Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Radicle Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

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 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

SDKs

Packages

CLI

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

FAQ

FAQ

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Download

Download

Source (apis.yml)

aid: radicle
name: Radicle
description: 'Radicle is a sovereign, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git, developed by Radicle (radicle.dev)
  and backed by Electric Capital. Instead of relying on a central host, every user runs their own node, and repositories,
  issues and patches replicate across the network as cryptographically-signed Collaborative Objects (COBs). The stack ships
  the `rad` command-line tooling, the Heartwood protocol and node, a terminal UI, a desktop app, and a web explorer. Each
  node can run `radicle-httpd`, a lightweight HTTP daemon that exposes a read-oriented JSON API over the node''s storage —
  repositories, issues, patches, commits, source trees, node info and network statistics — which powers the Radicle web explorer
  and third-party tooling. Identity is key-based (DIDs / did:key), so there are no accounts, passwords or platform lock-in.
  This profile was enriched from Radicle''s public surface: the live seed node API, the security.txt, the Heartwood source,
  and the CLI manuals.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/radicle/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://radicle.dev/assets/images/radicle.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- electric-capital
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- Code Collaboration
- Version Control
- Peer-to-Peer
- Open Source
- Decentralized
- Developer Tools API
tags_raw:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- Code Collaboration
- Git
- Peer-to-Peer
- Version Control
- Open Source
- Decentralized
- Developer Tools API
- Open-Source
apis:
- aid: radicle:radicle-issues-api
  name: Radicle Issues API
  description: Repository issues (collaborative objects)
  humanURL: https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz
  baseURL: https://seed.radicle.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Issues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/radicle-issues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/radicle-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/radicle-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/radicle-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/radicle-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/radicle-conformance.yml
- aid: radicle:radicle-node-api
  name: Radicle Node API
  description: Node identity, configuration and peers
  humanURL: https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz
  baseURL: https://seed.radicle.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Node
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/radicle-node-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/radicle-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/radicle-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/radicle-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/radicle-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/radicle-conformance.yml
- aid: radicle:radicle-patches-api
  name: Radicle Patches API
  description: Repository patches (change proposals)
  humanURL: https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz
  baseURL: https://seed.radicle.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Patches
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/radicle-patches-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/radicle-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/radicle-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/radicle-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/radicle-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/radicle-conformance.yml
- aid: radicle:radicle-repositories-api
  name: Radicle Repositories API
  description: Radicle repositories seeded by the node
  humanURL: https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz
  baseURL: https://seed.radicle.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Repositories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/radicle-repositories-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/radicle-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/radicle-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/radicle-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/radicle-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/radicle-conformance.yml
- aid: radicle:radicle-service-api
  name: Radicle Service API
  description: API root and service metadata
  humanURL: https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz
  baseURL: https://seed.radicle.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Services
  tags_raw:
  - Service
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/radicle-service-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/radicle-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/radicle-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/radicle-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/radicle-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/radicle-conformance.yml
- aid: radicle:radicle-source-api
  name: Radicle Source API
  description: Commits, trees, blobs and READMEs
  humanURL: https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz
  baseURL: https://seed.radicle.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Source
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/radicle-source-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/radicle-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/radicle-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/radicle-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/radicle-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/radicle-conformance.yml
- aid: radicle:radicle-stats-api
  name: Radicle Stats API
  description: Aggregate node statistics
  humanURL: https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz
  baseURL: https://seed.radicle.xyz/api/v1
  tags:
  - Stats
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/radicle-stats-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/radicle-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/radicle-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/radicle-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/radicle-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/radicle-conformance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/radicle-capability-edges.yml
  name: Radicle Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/radicle-httpd-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://radicle.dev/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://radicle.dev/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://radicle.dev/guides
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://radicle.dev/guides/quick-start/
- type: APIReference
  url: openapi/_original/radicle-httpd-openapi.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/radicle-dev
- type: Blog
  url: https://radicle.dev/#updates
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://radicle.dev/feed.xml
- type: Download
  url: https://radicle.dev/download
- type: FAQ
  url: https://radicle.dev/faq
- type: Support
  url: https://radicle.zulipchat.com
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/radicle-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/radicle-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/radicle-cli.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/radicle-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/radicle-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/radicle-authentication.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/radicle-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/radicle-security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/radicle-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://radicle.dev/.well-known/security.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/radicle-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/radicle-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/radicle-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://radicle.dev/legal
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1

Radicle API — frequently asked questions

Does Radicle have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Radicle, including Radicle Issues API, Radicle Node API and Radicle Patches API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Radicle API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Radicle, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Radicle API?

Radicle uses bearer-token authentication (none/session · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Radicle Authentication.

Is the Radicle API ready for AI agents?

Radicle has a Kin Score of 47.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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