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ORAS

Radar: Initial Apache-2.0

Pushes and pulls arbitrary artifacts through an OCI registry — Helm charts, SBOMs, signatures, models — using the registry as general artifact storage rather than image storage.

Container RegistryOCIArtifact StorageCloud NativeOCI Image, Runtime and Distribution

Specifications it implements

What this tool does to each specification, in the role vocabulary. Follow a standard through to standards.apievangelist.com for what it actually specifies.

StandardRoleWhat that means
OCI Image, Runtime and Distribution transfers Pushes and pulls arbitrary artifacts through an OCI registry, not just images.
Using this from an agent
Interfaces
clilibrary
Install
brew oras
Invoke
oras push <registry>/<repo>:<tag> <file>:<media-type>
Consumes
filesystem
Emits
oci-image
Runtime
Needs network Deterministic Writes Needs credentials

Where it applies

Jobs this tool actually does, and the surface each one is exercised on.

Store a non-image artifact where the infrastructure already has auth, mirroring and retention.
coding-agentci-pipeline

The reason the Distribution spec matters beyond containers — registries turn out to be the artifact store organisations already run.

Attach an SBOM or attestation to an image as a referring artifact.
ci-pipeline
Website
https://oras.land
Repository
https://github.com/oras-project/oras
License
Apache-2.0 — reported by the GitHub API, verified 2026-08-11
Stars
2377 · last commit 2026-08-11
Also known as
oras, OCI Registry As Storage
Reading this as an agent? Don't scrape the page — this entry is published as structured data at /tools.json, against the tool.schema.json schema, using the roles.json vocabulary. Start at /llms.txt.
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