Shape Security

Shape Security was an enterprise application-security company (backed by gv and wing-venture-capital) specializing in bot mitigation, credential-stuffing defense, and online-fraud prevention for login, checkout, and account-recovery flows. It was acquired by F5 in 2020 and its technology now ships as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense; the shapesecurity.com domain 301-redirects wholesale into f5.com. Shape Security no longer operates an independent developer portal, public API, OpenAPI spec, or SDK surface of its own — its capabilities are delivered through the F5 Distributed Cloud platform. This profile is retained as an acquisition/lineage record in the API Evangelist network.

Shape Security is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Security, Bot Mitigation, and Fraud Prevention.

Shape Security’s developer surface includes documentation and 2 more developer resources.

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8.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyEnterpriseSecurityBot MitigationFraud PreventionApplication SecurityAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 8.5/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

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

Shape Security Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: shape-security
name: Shape Security
description: Shape Security was an enterprise application-security company (backed by gv and wing-venture-capital) specializing
  in bot mitigation, credential-stuffing defense, and online-fraud prevention for login, checkout, and account-recovery flows.
  It was acquired by F5 in 2020 and its technology now ships as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense; the shapesecurity.com domain
  301-redirects wholesale into f5.com. Shape Security no longer operates an independent developer portal, public API, OpenAPI
  spec, or SDK surface of its own — its capabilities are delivered through the F5 Distributed Cloud platform. This profile
  is retained as an acquisition/lineage record in the API Evangelist network.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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- Enterprise
- Security
- Bot Mitigation
- Fraud Prevention
- Application Security
- Acquired
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shape-security-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
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- type: Documentation
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