Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

Salesforce Tooling APIThe Salesforce Tooling API provides SOAP and REST interfaces for building developer tools for Force.com app...88.8

Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Amazon Cloud9 APIAPI for creating and managing Cloud9 development environments — browser-based IDEs running on EC2 instances...49.5 Continue Ide APIThe Ide API from Continue — 8 operation(s) for ide.45.7 Dart Analysis Server ProtocolThe Dart Analysis Server provides a JSON-based protocol for IDE integration, enabling code analysis, comple...44.7 Tabnine IDE PluginsVS Code, JetBrains (IntelliJ, PhpStorm, etc.), and Eclipse plugins surfacing autocomplete, chat, and agenti...42.6 TypeScript Language Service APIAPI for editor integration and language tooling. The Language Service API provides completions, diagnostics...42.1 Analog Devices CodeFusion StudioCodeFusion Studio is ADI's embedded software development environment built on Visual Studio Code for ADI mi...40.3

Thin 10 Limited public surface area

Promptfoo Code ScanningPromptfoo Code Scanning analyzes source code in IDEs and CI pipelines to find LLM-related vulnerabilities i...36.3 Windsurf PluginsVS Code, JetBrains, Vim, Emacs, Visual Studio, Sublime Text plugins. Surface autocomplete, chat, and comman...36.0 VSCodeVisual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is an integrated development environment develope...32.6 Nx ConsoleNx Console is the official IDE extension for Nx and Lerna, available for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Je...29.9 Visual Studio Extensibility APIThe Visual Studio Extensibility API enables developers to create extensions that customize and extend Visua...28.6 JupyterLabNext-generation web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data, with a Jupyter...27.5 Cursor (MCP Host)Cursor IDE supports MCP servers as a first-class extension mechanism, configured via mcp.json. Cursor is on...26.8 Visual Studio Code (MCP Host)VS Code's GitHub Copilot Chat integrates MCP servers as agents and tools. Microsoft has standardized on MCP...26.8 Semgrep VS Code ExtensionVisual Studio Code extension that surfaces Semgrep findings inline while developers edit code, with quick-f...26.3 Bitquery IDEIn-browser GraphQL IDE for authoring, testing, and saving Bitquery queries against the V1 and V2 schemas. U...26.2

Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented

Cody by SourcegraphCody is Sourcegraph's AI coding assistant. It runs inside VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, uses Sourcegraph code...26.0 ModusToolbox Software EcosystemModusToolbox is Infineon's modern embedded development ecosystem and the successor to Cypress' PSoC Creator...25.2 StackBlitz JavaScript SDKA lightweight (3kB gzipped) JavaScript SDK that lets developers programmatically create, open, and embed St...19.3 TLA+ Toolbox IDEThe TLA+ Toolbox is a full-featured IDE for writing TLA+ specifications, running TLC model checks, and mana...17.8 TLA+ VS Code ExtensionThe official TLA+ extension for Visual Studio Code providing language support, syntax highlighting, TLC int...17.8 Lens DesktopLens is a Kubernetes IDE for managing, observing, and troubleshooting clusters.16.6

Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

Codeium / Windsurf PluginsIDE plugins (VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, Emacs, Visual Studio, Sublime Text, etc.) surfacing autocomplete, cha...10.4

Companies reaching this through an API (16)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “IDE” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Analog Devices APIs.io Engineering Platform Bitquery Continue Cypress Semiconductor Google Flutter Jupyter Mirantis Model Context Protocol (MCP) Promptfoo Salesforce Semgrep Sourcegraph Tabnine TLA Plus Foundation TypeScript

Score breakdown

Frequency

45.2

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

0.5

spread across providers

Quality lift

33.1

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

4.4

strength of nearest seed neighbor

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