The Agent Volumes Registry API is an HTTP API that bibliothecas expose for package operations, version discovery, trust metadata, advisory discovery, and capability introspection. Every operation maps to a resource under theDocumentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://agentvolumes.mintlify.app/llms.txt
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/api/v1/ prefix, response bodies use JSON when present, and errors follow the RFC 9457 Problem Details format. You call the same API whether you are building a client library, a CI publishing tool, or a resolver.
Base URL and versioning
All endpoints are prefixed with/api/v1/. The v1 segment identifies the HTTP API major family, distinct from the Agent Volumes spec version. You can confirm the exact spec version a bibliotheca implements by calling the capabilities endpoint.
Authentication
Read operations — search, fetch, download, version index, trust metadata, advisories, and capabilities — require no authentication. Write operations — publish, unpublish, and trust upload — require aBearer token in the Authorization header. Token issuance is bibliotheca-local and not standardized in v0.1.
Response format
Successful responses that include a body returnapplication/json; some lifecycle operations, such as accepted unpublish requests, can return an empty success body. Error responses return application/problem+json following RFC 9457 Problem Details.
https://agentvolumes.org/problems/<slug>. See Errors for the complete slug table.
Rate limiting
Bibliothecas should implement rate limiting. The recommended tiers are:| Tier | Limit |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | 60 req/min |
| Authenticated | 300 req/min |
| CI tokens | 1,000 req/min |
429 Too Many Requests with a rate-limited problem type.
Endpoint families
| Family | Description |
|---|---|
POST /api/v1/volumes/{name} | Publish a new volume release |
POST /api/v1/volumes/{name}/uploads/{uploadId}/finalize | Finalize a release upload |
GET /api/v1/volumes/{name}/{version} | Fetch release metadata |
DELETE /api/v1/volumes/{name}/{version} | Unpublish a release |
GET /api/v1/index/volumes/{name} | Version index for dependency resolution |
GET /api/v1/search | Search the catalog |
GET /api/v1/volumes/{name}/{version}/trust/summary | Trust attachment summary |
GET /api/v1/volumes/{name}/{version}/trust/detail | Trust attachment detail |
POST /api/v1/volumes/{name}/{version}/trust/uploads | Upload a trust attachment |
POST /api/v1/volumes/{name}/{version}/trust/uploads/{uploadId}/finalize | Finalize a trust attachment upload |
GET /api/v1/advisories | List security advisories |
GET /api/v1/advisories/{advisoryId} | Fetch a single advisory |
GET /api/v1/capabilities | Bibliotheca capability metadata |
/api/v1/volumes/{name} have scoped equivalents of the form /api/v1/volumes/@{scope}/{name}/.... Version index routes keep the /api/v1/index/volumes/ prefix, so a scoped version index is /api/v1/index/volumes/@{scope}/{name}.
OpenAPI contract
The normative machine-readable API contract is published asopenapi/bibliotheca.openapi.yaml in the Agent Volumes specification repository. Companion JSON Schema artifacts for individual payload shapes are published under schemas/ in the same repository. See section 11 (Conformance) of the specification for the full companion artifact inventory.
The prose specification is the final normative authority. If a companion artifact appears to
conflict with the prose, the prose wins.