# Restish

by [rest-sh](/organizations/rest-sh/)

- **ID:** `c3cd2218-917f-4a20-8554-d9af64f34117`
- **JSON API:** /api/v1/catalog/products/c3cd2218-917f-4a20-8554-d9af64f34117/
- **Slug:** restish
- **Product website:** https://rest.sh/
- **Documentation:** https://rest.sh/#/guide
- **Organization website:** https://rest.sh/
- **Categories:** [Developer Tools](/categories/developer-tools/)

## Description

Command-line HTTP client that discovers API operations from an OpenAPI description and exposes them as subcommands.

## AI-native score: Unrated

Research coverage is 38/100. An AI-native grade requires 40/100. The provisional breakdown below shows the AI-native signals recorded so far. The AI-native score measures agent-readiness and is not a substitute for your own security or vendor-risk review. See [methodology](/methodology/) for how coverage and the grade are computed.

| Component | Applies | Raw | Effective weight | Nominal weight | Contribution |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Integration | Yes | 2/10 | 35% | 35% | 7.0 |
| Trust | Yes | 0/6 | 30% | 30% | 0.0 |
| Portability | Yes | 4/4 | 20% | 20% | 20.0 |
| Security | Yes | 0/4 | 15% | 15% | 0.0 |

- **Integration signals:** Command-line interface (+1); SDK / developer kit (+1)
- **Portability signals:** Open standards (+1); Standard protocol access (+1); Self-hostable (+1); Open source (+1)

## Trust & Data Policy

- **WebMCP:** – No
- **Open standards:** ✓ Yes
- **Standard protocol access:** ✓ Yes
- **Self-hostable:** ✓ Yes
- **Open source:** ✓ Yes
- **Not yet researched:** llms.txt, Headless signup, Trust center, Multi-factor authentication, Zero data retention, No generative AI training, Hard budget caps, Sandbox environment, Data export, Data import, No proprietary-SDK lock-in, Documented provider swap
- **Source code:** https://github.com/rest-sh/restish

## Confirmed absences

These decision fields were researched and confirmed absent — not available based on current evidence, until contrary information supersedes the finding. Each carries the check performed, the page checked, and the date, so you can act on the negative without repeating the research. A label-scoped absence applies only to its label (e.g. no SOC 2 does not mean no certifications).

- **A2A servers** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-13. Checked the product developer documentation and integration overview for an Agent2Agent protocol server or Agent Card; none is documented on this page. Source: https://github.com/rest-sh/restish
- **Agent skills** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-13. Checked the product developer overview and integration inventory for published agent instruction skills for using Restish; none is listed. Source: https://github.com/rest-sh/restish
- **API specs** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-13. Checked the product developer overview for a published OpenAPI, gRPC or GraphQL interface specification for operating Restish itself. The documented OpenAPI descriptions are API inputs to the CLI; no Restish service specification is listed. Source: https://github.com/rest-sh/restish
- **Web-MCP** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-13. Checked the product developer documentation and integration overview for browser WebMCP tool registration or modelContext integration; none is documented on this page. Source: https://github.com/rest-sh/restish

## Security & Compliance

**Compliance certifications:** Not yet researched.
**Access controls:** Not yet researched.

## Capabilities

- **API request execution** — Sends HTTP requests to an API and renders the response from the command line.

## Jobs To Be Done

- **Call a REST API from the terminal** — Invoke an API's operations interactively or in scripts without writing client code.

## Offers

No offers listed.

## Reviews

No approved reviews yet.

## Benchmarks

No benchmarks listed.

## Documentation

The primary documentation link is at the top of this page. No other documentation links listed.

## API Specs

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no API specs. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

## MCP Servers

Not yet researched.

## A2A Servers

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no A2A servers. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

## Native Connectors

Not yet researched.

## Command-Line Interfaces

- [Restish](https://rest.sh/#/guide) (`restish-cli`)

## Developer Kits

- [Restish](https://github.com/rest-sh/restish) — Languages: Go

## Agent Skills

Confirmed absent based on current evidence — no agent skills. See Confirmed absences above for method, source, and date.

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