Amazon MSK Agentic Access
Amazon MSK exposes 36 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 20 are state-changing ‘acting’ operations. This is a recommended x-agentic-access execution contract — the scope, audience, consequence tier, short-lived token constraints, and escalation each action should carry before it is handed to an autonomous agent.
By consequence: 16 read, 19 write, and 1 safety-critical.
1 operation are classed safety-critical and should require human-in-the-loop approval at runtime.
Contracts are classified heuristically from the provider’s OpenAPI and refresh on every APIs.io network build; audience is bound per deployment. The model follows Curity’s Access Intelligence (apidays Munich 2026). Browse every provider’s agent contracts at agentic-access.apis.io.
By consequence
Highest-consequence actions
The physical and safety-critical operations an agent could invoke — the ones that most warrant scoped tokens, tight TTLs, and escalation. Full per-operation contracts are in the source below.
| Method | Path | Consequence | Human-in-loop |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUT | /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/reboot-broker | safety-critical | required |
Source
Agentic Access
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/amazon-msk-openapi-original.yml
description: Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts, classified heuristically from
the OpenAPI. A governance starting point for exposing this API to AI agents — review and bind
audience per deployment. See research/curity/agentic-governance/.
summary:
operations: 36
by_action_class:
acting: 20
connected: 16
by_consequence:
write: 19
read: 16
safety-critical: 1
human_in_the_loop_required: 1
operations:
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/scram-secrets
method: post
operationId: BatchAssociateScramSecret
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/scram-secrets
method: patch
operationId: BatchDisassociateScramSecret
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/scram-secrets
method: get
operationId: ListScramSecrets
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/clusters
method: post
operationId: CreateCluster
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters
method: get
operationId: ListClusters
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v2/clusters
method: post
operationId: CreateClusterV2
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /api/v2/clusters
method: get
operationId: ListClustersV2
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/configurations
method: post
operationId: CreateConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/configurations
method: get
operationId: ListConfigurations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteCluster
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}
method: get
operationId: DescribeCluster
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/configurations/{arn}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/configurations/{arn}
method: get
operationId: DescribeConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/configurations/{arn}
method: put
operationId: UpdateConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /api/v2/clusters/{clusterArn}
method: get
operationId: DescribeClusterV2
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/operations/{clusterOperationArn}
method: get
operationId: DescribeClusterOperation
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/configurations/{arn}/revisions/{revision}
method: get
operationId: DescribeConfigurationRevision
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/bootstrap-brokers
method: get
operationId: GetBootstrapBrokers
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/compatible-kafka-versions
method: get
operationId: GetCompatibleKafkaVersions
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/operations
method: get
operationId: ListClusterOperations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/configurations/{arn}/revisions
method: get
operationId: ListConfigurationRevisions
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/kafka-versions
method: get
operationId: ListKafkaVersions
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/nodes
method: get
operationId: ListNodes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/tags/{resourceArn}
method: get
operationId: ListTagsForResource
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/tags/{resourceArn}
method: post
operationId: TagResource
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/reboot-broker
method: put
operationId: RebootBroker
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: safety-critical
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 120
exchange: true
purpose-required: true
proof-of-possession: true
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: required
audit: required
- path: /v1/tags/{resourceArn}#tagKeys
method: delete
operationId: UntagResource
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/nodes/count
method: put
operationId: UpdateBrokerCount
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/nodes/type
method: put
operationId: UpdateBrokerType
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/nodes/storage
method: put
operationId: UpdateBrokerStorage
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/connectivity
method: put
operationId: UpdateConnectivity
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/configuration
method: put
operationId: UpdateClusterConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/version
method: put
operationId: UpdateClusterKafkaVersion
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/monitoring
method: put
operationId: UpdateMonitoring
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/security
method: patch
operationId: UpdateSecurity
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /v1/clusters/{clusterArn}/storage
method: put
operationId: UpdateStorage
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required