# Score

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/score/  
**Website:** https://score.dev/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Score is an open-source, platform-agnostic workload specification developed under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox program. It provides a developer-centric YAML specification that enables teams to define application workloads once and deploy them across multiple container platforms including Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and cloud runtimes without environment-specific configuration drift. The score-spec organization provides reference CLI implementations (score-compose and score-k8s) that translate Score YAML into platform-specific manifests, eliminating YAML bloat and reducing cognitive load for platform engineering teams.

## Kin Score — 17.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 10.7 |
| Governance | 15.2 |
| Contract Governance | 15.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (3)

- **Score Specification** — The Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that captures containers, service ports, and resource dependencies in a singl...
- **score-compose** — score-compose is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Docker Compose configuration files. It enables local development envi...
- **score-k8s** — score-k8s is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Kubernetes manifests including Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Sec...

## Security (1)

- **Score Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Score Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Platform Engineering, Cloud-Native, CNCF, Workload Specification, Kubernetes, Docker, Developer Experience, Open-Source

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