# University of California, San Diego **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ucsd/ **Website:** https://www.ucsd.edu/ **APIs profiled:** 12 University of California, San Diego is a public research university in La Jolla, California, and a campus of the University of California system. Its programmable footprint is real but almost entirely inward-facing, and the honest summary is that UC San Diego operates infrastructure rather than publishing products. Four surfaces are genuinely institution-operated: TritonAI, an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway running on the campus Data Science and Machine Learning Platform at tritonai-api.ucsd.edu, which publishes a live OpenAPI document and a SCIM 2.0 provisioning surface; a WSO2 API Manager 4.1.0 gateway at api.ucsd.edu whose catalogue is closed to anonymous clients; a Shibboleth identity provider registered in InCommon as urn:mace:incommon:ucsd.edu, whose SAML metadata is the one fully public machine-readable contract the institution has; and the Library Digital Collections, a locally developed Fedora/Solr repository that answers undocumented but live JSON at library.ucsd.edu/dc. What is NOT UC San Diego's own engineering is the campus API portal — collab.ucsd.edu redirects to an Atlassian Confluence Cloud tenant — and the DOI registration behind the repository, which runs on a California Digital Library DataCite account. There is no open, self-service, externally documented API; every campus API requires a UC San Diego Single Sign-On account or an issued credential, and the institution says so plainly. ## Kin Score — 51.4 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+14.0 from 37.4). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 64.8 | | Contract Quality | 62.8 | | Governance | 9.8 | | Contract Governance | 9.8 | | Operational Transparency | 26.3 | | Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 | | Commercial Clarity | 50.0 | | Access Clarity | 50.0 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 64.8 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | 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 | ## Access Free · Campus affiliation required — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (12) - **TritonAI Developer API — chat** — Chat completion endpoints on the OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway UC San Diego operates for approved campus faculty, staff, researchers and teams. The gateway runs on the campus Da... - **TritonAI Developer API — completions** — Text completion endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. Institution-operated on campus infrastructure; access requires an issued TritonAI API key. - **TritonAI Developer API — embeddings** — Embedding generation endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. Institution-operated on campus infrastructure; access requires an issued TritonAI API key. - **TritonAI Developer API — models** — Model discovery endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. The catalogue of models the gateway exposes is published for campus users through the TritonAI Model Hub. - **TritonAI Developer API — images** — Image generation endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. Institution-operated on campus infrastructure; access requires an issued TritonAI API key. - **TritonAI Developer API — audio** — Speech synthesis and transcription endpoints on the UC San Diego TritonAI LLM gateway. Institution-operated on campus infrastructure; access requires an issued TritonAI API key. - **TritonAI Developer API — SCIM 2.0 provisioning** — SCIM 2.0 (RFC 7643 / RFC 7644) user and group provisioning surface exposed by the TritonAI gateway on UC San Diego infrastructure — 18 operations across /scim/v2/Users, /scim/v2... - **UC San Diego Library Digital Collections JSON API** — Public, read-only JSON search-and-retrieval over the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections, the Library's locally developed Fedora-backed Digital Asset Management System fron... - **UC San Diego API Gateway (WSO2 API Manager)** — The campus API gateway, running WSO2 API Manager 4.1.0 at api.ucsd.edu on UC San Diego address space (169.228.220.90), with a developer portal, a publisher console and a legacy ... - **UC San Diego Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon / eduGAIN)** — UC San Diego's SAML 2.0 identity provider, "TritON", registered in the InCommon Federation under entityID urn:mace:incommon:ucsd.edu and distributed through the InCommon MDQ met... - **UC San Diego Web API Portal (Atlassian Confluence Cloud tenant)** — The campus Web API Portal and REST API guidelines. TENANT, not institution-engineered — https://collab.ucsd.edu/api/api-documentation issues a 302 to https://ucsdcollab.atlassia... - **UC San Diego DOI registration (DataCite / California Digital Library)** — UC San Diego Library mints DOIs for its Digital Collections under DataCite repository account CDL.UCSD ("UC San Diego", registered 2012), prefix 10.6075. 22,934 DOIs resolve to ... ## Agentic access (1) - **Ucsd Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 6 acting ## Security (2) - **Ucsd Authentication** — http · 1 scheme - **Ucsd Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Ucsd Plans Pricing** ## Tags Education, Higher Education, University, Public Research University, UC System, United States, California, Research, Research Data, Digital Collections, Identity Federation, API Gateway, Artificial Intelligence, Research Computing --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ucsd/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.