# Silk Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/silk-labs/  
**Website:** https://silklabs.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 10.8 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (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 | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Silk Labs Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Internet of Things, On-Device AI, JavaScript, Open-Source, SDK, Computer-Vision

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