# Radicle

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/radicle/  
**Website:** https://radicle.dev/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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.

## Kin Score — 47.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.2 from 46.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 49.1 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 73.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.6 |
| Access Clarity | 28.6 |

## Agent readiness — 41.1 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **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

## MCP servers (1)

- **Radicle MCP Server**

## Security (3)

- **Radicle Authentication** — none/session · 2 schemes
- **Radicle Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Radicle Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Developer Tools, Code Collaboration, Git, Peer-to-Peer, Version Control, Open-Source, Decentralized, Developer Tools API

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