Tekton

Tekton is a cloud-native CI/CD framework implemented as a set of Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions and controllers under the tekton.dev API group. Tekton is a CNCF Incubating project. Its primary API surface is Kubernetes-native — Tasks, Pipelines, PipelineRuns, TaskRuns, EventListeners, Triggers, etc. — accessed through the Kubernetes API server (kubectl, client-go, the tkn CLI, and the Tekton Dashboard). Tekton itself is open-source under Apache 2.0; commercial offerings layered on Tekton (Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, Jenkins X, Google Cloud Build private preview integrations, IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, Pipelines-as-Code on GitOps platforms) are out of scope of the upstream project.

Tekton publishes 21 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Task CRD, and 20 more. Tagged areas include DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, CNCF, and Pipelines.

Tekton’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, CLI, engineering blog, YouTube channel, release notes, and 21 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Profile data on GitHub

20.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 98/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFree

1 published contract

DevOps CI/CD Kubernetes CNCF Pipelines Open Source CRD Operator

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 20.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 5.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.3 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 14/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

Show this score on your site.

It updates itself when the score changes. Paste this where you link to your API docs:

<a href="https://apis.io/providers/tekton/"><img src="https://apis.io/badge/tekton/card.svg" alt="Tekton on APIs.io — Kin Score by API Evangelist"></a>

Other styles, a README pill and a shields.io endpoint are on the badge page.

Raise your score.

Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 24.0 — up to +19.0 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 10.6 — up to +17.9 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 31.0 — up to +13.8 composite points Ask about this →

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Not sure how this applies to your stack? Ask about any one item. Kin Lane reads every question, looks at your profile and your situation, and replies with what a fix would take — scoped to that one area, priced up front, yours whether you ship it or not. Ask a question →

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/tekton/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/tekton to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Software Supply Chain (SBOM, Signing, Open Source Security)	standard	54.9	-	1
Jenkins Plugins + CD Foundation Landscape	standard	54.9	-	1
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	54.9	-	1
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	standard	54.9	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 21

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Tekton Task CRD

tekton.dev/v1 kind=Task — defines a series of steps that launch specific build or delivery tools, ingest specific inputs (params, workspaces, resources), and produce specific ou...

Tekton TaskRun CRD

tekton.dev/v1 kind=TaskRun — instantiates a Task with specific inputs, workspace bindings, and execution parameters. The TaskRun controller runs the steps as Kubernetes pods and...

Tekton Pipeline CRD

tekton.dev/v1 kind=Pipeline — defines an ordered/parallelized series of Tasks that accomplish a specific build or delivery goal. Pipelines compose Tasks via params, workspaces, ...

Tekton PipelineRun CRD

tekton.dev/v1 kind=PipelineRun — instantiates a Pipeline with specific param values, workspace bindings, service accounts, and timeouts. The PipelineRun controller orchestrates ...

Tekton ClusterTask CRD

tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=ClusterTask — cluster-scoped variant of Task, allowing a single definition to be referenced from any namespace. Marked deprecated in favor of remote reso...

Tekton StepAction CRD

tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=StepAction — reusable, parameterizable step definition that can be referenced from multiple Tasks, enabling tighter sharing than copy-pasting step blocks.

Tekton CustomRun CRD

tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=CustomRun — generic execution resource that custom controllers reconcile, enabling third-party orchestrators to extend Tekton with non-Pod-based executio...

Tekton Resolver Framework

The Tekton Resolution API (tekton.dev/v1alpha1 kind=ResolutionRequest) and built-in resolvers (Git, Hub, Bundles, Cluster, HTTP) fetch Tasks and Pipelines from remote sources at...

Tekton EventListener CRD

triggers.tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=EventListener — runs an HTTP server (Sink) that receives webhooks (e.g., GitHub push events), applies interceptors, and creates Pipeline/TaskRun...

Tekton Trigger CRD

triggers.tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=Trigger — combines TriggerBindings (extracting fields from incoming events) and a TriggerTemplate (instantiating PipelineRuns/TaskRuns) used by ...

Tekton TriggerBinding CRD

triggers.tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=TriggerBinding (and ClusterTriggerBinding) — extracts fields from event payloads and binds them to params used by TriggerTemplates.

Tekton TriggerTemplate CRD

triggers.tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=TriggerTemplate — declares the PipelineRun/TaskRun resources that should be instantiated when a matching event is received, parameterized by Tri...

Tekton ClusterInterceptor CRD

triggers.tekton.dev/v1alpha1 kind=ClusterInterceptor (and namespace-scoped Interceptor) — pluggable webhook handler that filters, validates, and mutates incoming events before t...

Tekton Results API

Tekton Results provides a long-term store and a gRPC + REST API for completed PipelineRun/TaskRun records and their logs, freeing the Kubernetes etcd from acting as a CI history...

Tekton Chains

Tekton Chains observes completed TaskRuns/PipelineRuns and emits signed in-toto/SLSA provenance attestations to OCI registries, transparency logs (Rekor), or storage backends — ...

Tekton Pipelines as Code

Pipelines as Code lets you store Tekton Pipeline definitions inside the same Git repository as your application code (.tekton/) and runs them on PR/push events from GitHub/GitLa...

Tekton Dashboard API

The Tekton Dashboard exposes a web UI and a thin proxy/HTTP API over the Tekton CRDs and Tekton Results, providing browsing, log streaming, and run management capabilities.

Tekton CLI (tkn)

tkn is the official Tekton command-line tool wrapping the Kubernetes API for Tekton resources — start runs, stream logs, list/describe Tasks and Pipelines, manage triggers, and ...

Tekton Operator CRDs

operator.tekton.dev kinds (TektonConfig, TektonPipeline, TektonTrigger, TektonChain, TektonHub, TektonAddon, TektonDashboard, TektonResult) — the Tekton Operator installs and li...

Tekton Hub API

Tekton Hub is a public catalog of reusable Tasks and Pipelines exposed via REST API — search, fetch, and resolve community-published resources for use via the Hub resolver.

Tekton Catalog

The Tekton Catalog hosts community-curated, versioned Task and Pipeline definitions consumed via the Hub or directly by the Git resolver.

Scroll for all 21

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Tekton

OPEN COLLECTION

Tekton API pricing

Not yet checked against Tekton's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 from tekton.dev/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Open Source (Apache 2.0) free	Free
Third-Party Distributions and Managed Offerings (Reference) external	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Controller QPS to Kubernetes API: 50 kube api requests per second
Controller Burst to Kubernetes API: 50 kube api burst
Concurrent PipelineRuns: unlimited pipelineruns

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Tekton's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tekton Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tekton Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Tekton

7 quoted statements, read from Tekton's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Tekton

2 quoted statements, read from Tekton's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Tekton Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Tekton Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Slack Community

ReleaseNotes

RoadMap

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

Plans

FinOps

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

X (Twitter)

X (Twitter)

Other 9

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source

Triggers

Chains

Results

Operator

Dashboard

Catalog

Hub

CNCF Project

Scroll for all 9

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tekton
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tekton/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Tekton
kind: opensource
description: Tekton is a cloud-native CI/CD framework implemented as a set of Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions and controllers
  under the tekton.dev API group. Tekton is a CNCF Incubating project. Its primary API surface is Kubernetes-native — Tasks,
  Pipelines, PipelineRuns, TaskRuns, EventListeners, Triggers, etc. — accessed through the Kubernetes API server (kubectl,
  client-go, the tkn CLI, and the Tekton Dashboard). Tekton itself is open-source under Apache 2.0; commercial offerings layered
  on Tekton (Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, Jenkins X, Google Cloud Build private preview integrations, IBM Cloud Continuous
  Delivery, Pipelines-as-Code on GitOps platforms) are out of scope of the upstream project.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tekton.png
tags:
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Kubernetes
- CNCF
- Pipelines
- Open Source
- CRD
- Operator
tags_raw:
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Kubernetes
- CNCF
- Pipelines
- Open Source
- CRD
- Operator
- Open-Source
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tekton:tekton-task-crd
  name: Tekton Task CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - Task
  - Steps
  - Builds
  tags_raw:
  - CRD
  - Tasks
  - Steps
  - Build
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/tasks/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/blob/main/config/300-task.yaml
    type: Source
  - url: openapi/_original/tekton-pipeline-openapi.json
    type: OpenAPI
  description: tekton.dev/v1 kind=Task — defines a series of steps that launch specific build or delivery tools, ingest specific
    inputs (params, workspaces, resources), and produce specific outputs (results). Tasks are the reusable unit of execution
    in Tekton.
- aid: tekton:tekton-taskrun-crd
  name: Tekton TaskRun CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - Task Runs
  - Execution
  tags_raw:
  - CRD
  - TaskRuns
  - Execution
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/taskruns/
    type: Documentation
  description: tekton.dev/v1 kind=TaskRun — instantiates a Task with specific inputs, workspace bindings, and execution parameters.
    The TaskRun controller runs the steps as Kubernetes pods and surfaces status, logs, and results.
- aid: tekton:tekton-pipeline-crd
  name: Tekton Pipeline CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - Pipelines
  - Workflows
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/pipelines/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/blob/main/config/300-pipeline.yaml
    type: Source
  description: tekton.dev/v1 kind=Pipeline — defines an ordered/parallelized series of Tasks that accomplish a specific build
    or delivery goal. Pipelines compose Tasks via params, workspaces, results, and finally tasks.
- aid: tekton:tekton-pipelinerun-crd
  name: Tekton PipelineRun CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - Pipeline Runs
  - Execution
  tags_raw:
  - CRD
  - PipelineRuns
  - Execution
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/pipelineruns/
    type: Documentation
  description: tekton.dev/v1 kind=PipelineRun — instantiates a Pipeline with specific param values, workspace bindings, service
    accounts, and timeouts. The PipelineRun controller orchestrates the underlying TaskRuns.
- aid: tekton:tekton-clustertask-crd
  name: Tekton ClusterTask CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - ClusterTasks
  - Cluster-Scoped
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/tasks/#tekton-clustertasks
    type: Documentation
  description: tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=ClusterTask — cluster-scoped variant of Task, allowing a single definition to be referenced
    from any namespace. Marked deprecated in favor of remote resolution but still widely used.
- aid: tekton:tekton-stepaction-crd
  name: Tekton StepAction CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - StepActions
  - Reusable
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/stepactions/
    type: Documentation
  description: tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=StepAction — reusable, parameterizable step definition that can be referenced from
    multiple Tasks, enabling tighter sharing than copy-pasting step blocks.
- aid: tekton:tekton-customrun-crd
  name: Tekton CustomRun CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - CustomRun
  - Extension
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/customruns/
    type: Documentation
  description: tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=CustomRun — generic execution resource that custom controllers reconcile, enabling
    third-party orchestrators to extend Tekton with non-Pod-based execution semantics.
- aid: tekton:tekton-resolver-api
  name: Tekton Resolver Framework
  tags:
  - Resolution
  - Resolvers
  - Remote
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/resolution/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/tree/main/pkg/resolution
    type: Source
  description: The Tekton Resolution API (tekton.dev/v1alpha1 kind=ResolutionRequest) and built-in resolvers (Git, Hub, Bundles,
    Cluster, HTTP) fetch Tasks and Pipelines from remote sources at run time, so PipelineRuns can reference versioned remote
    definitions without bundling them in-cluster.
- aid: tekton:tekton-eventlistener-crd
  name: Tekton EventListener CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - EventListener
  - Triggers
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - CRD
  - EventListener
  - Triggers
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/triggers/eventlisteners/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/triggers
    type: Source
  description: triggers.tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=EventListener — runs an HTTP server (Sink) that receives webhooks (e.g., GitHub
    push events), applies interceptors, and creates Pipeline/TaskRun objects via TriggerTemplates.
- aid: tekton:tekton-trigger-crd
  name: Tekton Trigger CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - Trigger
  - TriggerBinding
  - TriggerTemplate
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/triggers/triggers/
    type: Documentation
  description: triggers.tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=Trigger — combines TriggerBindings (extracting fields from incoming events)
    and a TriggerTemplate (instantiating PipelineRuns/TaskRuns) used by EventListeners.
- aid: tekton:tekton-triggerbinding-crd
  name: Tekton TriggerBinding CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - TriggerBinding
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/triggers/triggerbindings/
    type: Documentation
  description: triggers.tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=TriggerBinding (and ClusterTriggerBinding) — extracts fields from event payloads
    and binds them to params used by TriggerTemplates.
- aid: tekton:tekton-triggertemplate-crd
  name: Tekton TriggerTemplate CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - TriggerTemplate
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/triggers/triggertemplates/
    type: Documentation
  description: triggers.tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind=TriggerTemplate — declares the PipelineRun/TaskRun resources that should be
    instantiated when a matching event is received, parameterized by TriggerBindings.
- aid: tekton:tekton-clusterinterceptor-crd
  name: Tekton ClusterInterceptor CRD
  tags:
  - CRD
  - Interceptor
  - Filtering
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/triggers/clusterinterceptors/
    type: Documentation
  description: triggers.tekton.dev/v1alpha1 kind=ClusterInterceptor (and namespace-scoped Interceptor) — pluggable webhook
    handler that filters, validates, and mutates incoming events before they reach a TriggerTemplate (built-in interceptors
    include GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, CEL).
- aid: tekton:tekton-results-api
  name: Tekton Results API
  tags:
  - Results
  - History
  - Storage
  - gRPC
  tags_raw:
  - Results
  - History
  - Storage
  - GRPC
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/results/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/results
    type: Source
  description: Tekton Results provides a long-term store and a gRPC + REST API for completed PipelineRun/TaskRun records and
    their logs, freeing the Kubernetes etcd from acting as a CI history database.
- aid: tekton:tekton-chains-api
  name: Tekton Chains
  tags:
  - Supply Chain
  - Provenance
  - SLSA
  - Signing
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/chains/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/chains
    type: Source
  description: Tekton Chains observes completed TaskRuns/PipelineRuns and emits signed in-toto/SLSA provenance attestations
    to OCI registries, transparency logs (Rekor), or storage backends — supplying the supply-chain integrity surface for Tekton
    CI/CD.
- aid: tekton:tekton-pipelines-as-code
  name: Tekton Pipelines as Code
  tags:
  - Pipelines as Code
  - GitOps
  - GitHub
  - GitLab
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelinesascode/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/openshift-pipelines/pipelines-as-code
    type: Source
  description: Pipelines as Code lets you store Tekton Pipeline definitions inside the same Git repository as your application
    code (.tekton/) and runs them on PR/push events from GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/Gitea, providing a Git-native CI/CD experience.
- aid: tekton:tekton-dashboard-api
  name: Tekton Dashboard API
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  - UI
  - Backend
  tags_raw:
  - Dashboard
  - UI
  - Backend
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/dashboard/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/dashboard
    type: Source
  description: The Tekton Dashboard exposes a web UI and a thin proxy/HTTP API over the Tekton CRDs and Tekton Results, providing
    browsing, log streaming, and run management capabilities.
- aid: tekton:tekton-cli-tkn
  name: Tekton CLI (tkn)
  tags:
  - CLI
  - tkn
  tags_raw:
  - CLI
  - tkn
  - Operations
  properties:
  - url: https://tekton.dev/docs/cli/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/cli
    type: Source
  description: tkn is the official Tekton command-line tool wrapping the Kubernetes API for Tekton resources — start runs,
    stream logs, list/describe Tasks and Pipelines, manage triggers, and bootstrap projects.
- aid: tekton:tekton-operator-crd
  name: Tekton Operator CRDs
  tags:
  - CRD
  - Operator
  - Lifecycle
  - TektonConfig
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/operator
    type: Source
  description: operator.tekton.dev kinds (TektonConfig, TektonPipeline, TektonTrigger, TektonChain, TektonHub, TektonAddon,
    TektonDashboard, TektonResult) — the Tekton Operator installs and lifecycle-manages all Tekton subprojects on a cluster.
- aid: tekton:tekton-hub-api
  name: Tekton Hub API
  tags:
  - Hub
  - Catalog
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - url: https://hub.tekton.dev/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/hub
    type: Source
  description: Tekton Hub is a public catalog of reusable Tasks and Pipelines exposed via REST API — search, fetch, and resolve
    community-published resources for use via the Hub resolver.
- aid: tekton:tekton-catalog-api
  name: Tekton Catalog
  tags:
  - Catalog
  - Library
  - Reusable
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/tektoncd/catalog
    type: Source
  description: The Tekton Catalog hosts community-curated, versioned Task and Pipeline definitions consumed via the Hub or
    directly by the Git resolver.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tekton-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://tekton.dev/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://tekton.dev/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://tekton.dev/docs/getting-started/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd
- type: Source
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline
- type: Triggers
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/triggers
- type: Chains
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/chains
- type: Results
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/results
- type: Operator
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/operator
- type: CLI
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/cli
- type: Dashboard
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/dashboard
- type: Catalog
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/catalog
- type: Hub
  url: https://hub.tekton.dev/
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: CNCF Project
  url: https://www.cncf.io/projects/tekton/
- type: Slack Community
  url: https://tektoncd.slack.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://tekton.dev/blog/
- type: X (Twitter)
  url: https://x.com/tektoncd
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/c/TektonCD
- type: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/releases
- type: RoadMap
  url: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/blob/main/roadmap.md
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tekton-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tekton-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tekton-finops.yml
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/tekton-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/tekton-data-license.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Tekton API — frequently asked questions

Does Tekton have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 21 APIs from Tekton, including Tekton Task CRD, Tekton TaskRun CRD and Tekton Pipeline CRD, and 18 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Tekton API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Tekton, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Tekton API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Tekton, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Tekton API ready for AI agents?

Tekton has a Kin Score of 20.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

Work with this as data

Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for providers

9 MCP tools reach this

find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This provider

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/tekton"

All providers

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/tekton/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/tekton/evidence"

Calls without X-API-Key need no key. Calls with it need a paid plan — get a key.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.