Find And Fix Security Vulnerabilities Across Your Code And Cloud With Snyk

If your company builds software, it is also shipping other people’s code: open-source libraries, container images and cloud configuration. Any of it can carry a known security hole, and the hard part is not finding one problem but keeping a current list of all of them, across every team. Snyk scans for those problems, and it exposes what it finds through an API, so your reporting tools, ticketing system or an AI assistant can pull the list and act on it without anyone exporting a spreadsheet.

What Snyk does

Snyk describes itself as a developer-first security platform covering code, open-source dependencies, container images and infrastructure-as-code (the files that describe cloud setups). The Snyk REST API and the older V1 API expose groups, organizations, projects, issues, targets, integrations, audit logs, SBOMs (software bills of materials, the ingredient list of an application), container images, webhooks and exports. Snyk also runs an MCP server, Snyk Studio, for AI coding agents.

What you can get done

Vulnerability Management

A vulnerability is a weakness someone could exploit. This is the core of Snyk: getting the list of open issues, at the level you manage them.

• GET /groups/{group_id}/issues lists security issues across a whole group of organizations.
• GET /orgs/{org_id}/issues lists the issues open in one organization right now.
• GET /orgs/{org_id}/issues/{issue_id} returns the details of one vulnerability.
• GET /groups/{group_id}/issues/{issue_id} returns one issue using the group’s scope.

Cybersecurity Management

Problems are not only in code. Snyk can also scan the cloud accounts your software runs in.

• POST /orgs/{org_id}/cloud/environments connects a cloud account and scans it.
• GET /orgs/{org_id}/cloud/environments lists the cloud environments an organization has connected.
• PATCH /orgs/{org_id}/cloud/environments/{environment_id} edits a connected environment’s settings.
• DELETE /orgs/{org_id}/cloud/environments/{environment_id} disconnects a cloud environment.

Identity & Access Management

Security tools need their own access control. These calls handle who belongs to which group, and with what role.

• GET /groups lists the groups you belong to.
• GET /groups/{group_id}/memberships lists a group’s members and their roles.
• POST /groups/{group_id}/memberships adds a user to a group with a role.
• DELETE /groups/{group_id}/memberships/{membership_id} removes someone’s membership.

Developer Identity & Credential Management

Snyk Apps are integrations that act on your account. Keeping track of which ones are installed, and rotating their secrets, is basic hygiene.

• GET /groups/{group_id}/apps/installs lists the Snyk Apps installed for a group.
• POST /groups/{group_id}/apps/installs installs an app across a whole group.
• POST /groups/{group_id}/apps/installs/{install_id}/secrets rotates the client secret of an installed app.
• DELETE /groups/{group_id}/apps/installs/{install_id} uninstalls an app so it loses access.

Ask for it in plain language

Snyk has 47 phrasing overlays on APIs.io. They map plain questions to the operation that answers them, so an AI assistant knows which call to make. These are the kinds of questions they cover:

• What open critical vulnerabilities exist across my whole Snyk group?
• What vulnerabilities does my organization have open right now?
• How do I connect a cloud account to Snyk as a new environment?
• Who are the members of my group and what roles do they have?
• How do I rotate the client secret for a non-interactive app installed on my group?

The Snyk Access Requests API phrasing overlay shows how it works.

Getting started

Snyk is freemium with self-serve signup. Plans are in the pricing section of its APIs.io profile; as one example, Free is listed at $0/ month. Read the Snyk Apps APIs documentation, the V1 API documentation and the guide to agentic security with Snyk Studio.

The Snyk profile on APIs.io lists every API, including the Snyk V1 API, the Snyk MCP Server and the Snyk Apps API. Start by pulling your organization’s open issues into the place your team already works.