Silk Labs

Silk Labs was an on-device artificial intelligence startup founded in 2015 by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal together with Chris Jones and Michael Vines, a team drawn from Mozilla's Firefox OS effort. The company's open-source Silk platform layered a Node.js runtime on Android so developers could build Internet of Things applications entirely in JavaScript, and it later shipped work on the "Sense" AI home camera focused on running real-time visual and audio recognition directly on the device. Silk Labs was backed by investors including 500 Global and was acquired by Apple in November 2018, after which it ceased independent operations; the silklabs.com domain is now parked on Apple nameservers. Its open-source Silk code, GitHub organization, and npm packages remain publicly available and are captured in this profile.

Silk Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, and On-Device AI.

Silk Labs’ developer surface includes documentation, CLI, and 7 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningInternet of ThingsOn-Device AIJavaScriptOpen SourceSDKComputer Vision

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 11.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 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.

Silk Labs Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

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Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

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LLMsTxt

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Silk Labs
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  together with Chris Jones and Michael Vines, a team drawn from Mozilla's Firefox OS effort. The company's open-source Silk
  platform layered a Node.js runtime on Android so developers could build Internet of Things applications entirely in JavaScript,
  and it later shipped work on the "Sense" AI home camera focused on running real-time visual and audio recognition directly
  on the device. Silk Labs was backed by investors including 500 Global and was acquired by Apple in November 2018, after
  which it ceased independent operations; the silklabs.com domain is now parked on Apple nameservers. Its open-source Silk
  code, GitHub organization, and npm packages remain publicly available and are captured in this profile.
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