# Tekton

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tekton/  
**Website:** https://tekton.dev/  
**APIs profiled:** 21

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.

## Kin Score — 25.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 25.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 26.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 15.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (21)

- **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.

## Security (1)

- **Tekton Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Tekton Plans Pricing**

## Tags

DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, CNCF, Pipelines, Open-Source, CRD, Operator

---

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