System Initiative

aid: system-initiative
name: System Initiative
description: System Initiative is an AI-native infrastructure automation platform. It builds an interactive digital twin of
  your cloud infrastructure — modeling every resource as a "component" inside reviewable "change sets" — so that engineers
  and AI agents can discover, simulate, and safely apply changes to production. It works alongside Terraform, Pulumi, and
  GitOps and can be adopted incrementally. System Initiative exposes a workspace-scoped Public API (the "luminork" server)
  with bearer-token auth, first-party Python and JavaScript/TypeScript SDKs, and a first-party Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  server so agents can model and automate infrastructure programmatically. Backed by Amplify Partners and Battery Ventures.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/system-initiative/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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image: https://github.com/systeminit.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- Infrastructure Automation
- DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- AI Agents
- Cloud
- MCP
apis:
- name: System Initiative Public API
  description: 'Workspace-scoped REST API (the "luminork" server) for automating System Initiative: create and apply change
    sets, model/discover/import components, run functions, and manage actions and secrets. Bearer-token authenticated.'
  humanURL: https://docs.systeminit.com/reference/public-api
  baseURL: https://api.systeminit.com
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.systeminit.com/reference/public-api
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://api.systeminit.com/swagger-ui
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.systeminit.com/how-tos/use-public-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/system-initiative-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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  url: https://github.com/systeminit/si/issues
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  url: https://github.com/systeminit/si/releases
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  url: https://github.com/systeminit/si/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/systeminit/si/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/systeminit/si/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://www.systeminit.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.systeminit.com/
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  url: https://docs.systeminit.com/
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  url: https://docs.systeminit.com/reference/public-api
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- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.systeminit.com/changelog/
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  url: changelog/system-initiative-changelog.yml
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  url: https://github.com/systeminit
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  url: https://github.com/systeminit/si
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/system-initiative-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/system-initiative-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/system-initiative-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/system-initiative-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/system-initiative-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/system-initiative-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/system-initiative-data-model.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/system-initiative-llms.txt
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