Amazon S3 Agentic Access
Amazon S3 exposes 82 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 48 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: 34 read, 47 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 | /{Bucket}?acl | safety-critical | required |
Source
Agentic Access
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/amazon-s3-control-api-openapi.yml, openapi/amazon-s3-rest-api-openapi.yml, openapi/amazon-s3-tables-api-openapi.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: 82
by_action_class:
connected: 34
acting: 48
by_consequence:
read: 34
write: 47
safety-critical: 1
human_in_the_loop_required: 1
operations:
- path: /v20180820/accesspoint/{name}
method: get
operationId: GetAccessPoint
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/accesspoint/{name}
method: put
operationId: CreateAccessPoint
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: /v20180820/accesspoint/{name}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteAccessPoint
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: /v20180820/accesspoint
method: get
operationId: ListAccessPoints
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/accesspoint/{name}/policy
method: get
operationId: GetAccessPointPolicy
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/accesspoint/{name}/policy
method: put
operationId: PutAccessPointPolicy
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: /v20180820/accesspoint/{name}/policy
method: delete
operationId: DeleteAccessPointPolicy
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: /v20180820/jobs
method: get
operationId: ListJobs
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/jobs
method: post
operationId: CreateJob
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: /v20180820/jobs/{id}
method: get
operationId: DescribeJob
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/jobs/{id}/priority
method: post
operationId: UpdateJobPriority
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: /v20180820/jobs/{id}/status
method: post
operationId: UpdateJobStatus
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: /v20180820/configuration/publicAccessBlock
method: get
operationId: GetPublicAccessBlock
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/configuration/publicAccessBlock
method: put
operationId: PutPublicAccessBlock
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: /v20180820/configuration/publicAccessBlock
method: delete
operationId: DeletePublicAccessBlock
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: /v20180820/storagelens
method: get
operationId: ListStorageLensConfigurations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/storagelens/{storagelensid}
method: get
operationId: GetStorageLensConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/storagelens/{storagelensid}
method: put
operationId: PutStorageLensConfiguration
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: /v20180820/storagelens/{storagelensid}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteStorageLensConfiguration
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: /v20180820/accessgrantsinstance
method: get
operationId: GetAccessGrantsInstance
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/accessgrantsinstance
method: post
operationId: CreateAccessGrantsInstance
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: /v20180820/accessgrantsinstance
method: delete
operationId: DeleteAccessGrantsInstance
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: /v20180820/async-requests/mrap/create
method: post
operationId: CreateMultiRegionAccessPoint
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: /v20180820/mrap/instances
method: get
operationId: ListMultiRegionAccessPoints
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v20180820/mrap/instances/{mrap_name+}
method: get
operationId: GetMultiRegionAccessPoint
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /
method: get
operationId: ListBuckets
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}
method: put
operationId: CreateBucket
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: /{Bucket}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteBucket
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: /{Bucket}
method: head
operationId: HeadBucket
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}?list-type=2
method: get
operationId: ListObjectsV2
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}/{Key+}
method: get
operationId: GetObject
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}/{Key+}
method: put
operationId: PutObject
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: /{Bucket}/{Key+}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteObject
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: /{Bucket}/{Key+}
method: head
operationId: HeadObject
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}/{Key+}?copy
method: put
operationId: CopyObject
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: /{Bucket}?delete
method: post
operationId: DeleteObjects
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: /{Bucket}/{Key+}?uploads
method: post
operationId: CreateMultipartUpload
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: /{Bucket}/{Key+}?partNumber={partNumber}&uploadId={uploadId}
method: put
operationId: UploadPart
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: /{Bucket}/{Key+}?uploadId={uploadId}
method: post
operationId: CompleteMultipartUpload
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: /{Bucket}/{Key+}?uploadId={uploadId}
method: delete
operationId: AbortMultipartUpload
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: /{Bucket}?acl
method: get
operationId: GetBucketAcl
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}?acl
method: put
operationId: PutBucketAcl
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: /{Bucket}?versioning
method: get
operationId: GetBucketVersioning
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}?versioning
method: put
operationId: PutBucketVersioning
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: /{Bucket}?tagging
method: get
operationId: GetBucketTagging
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}?tagging
method: put
operationId: PutBucketTagging
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: /{Bucket}?tagging
method: delete
operationId: DeleteBucketTagging
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: /{Bucket}?encryption
method: get
operationId: GetBucketEncryption
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}?encryption
method: put
operationId: PutBucketEncryption
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: /{Bucket}?encryption
method: delete
operationId: DeleteBucketEncryption
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: /{Bucket}?lifecycle
method: get
operationId: GetBucketLifecycleConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}?lifecycle
method: put
operationId: PutBucketLifecycleConfiguration
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: /{Bucket}?lifecycle
method: delete
operationId: DeleteBucketLifecycle
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: /{Bucket}?cors
method: get
operationId: GetBucketCors
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /{Bucket}?cors
method: put
operationId: PutBucketCors
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: /{Bucket}?cors
method: delete
operationId: DeleteBucketCors
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: /buckets
method: get
operationId: ListTableBuckets
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /buckets
method: put
operationId: CreateTableBucket
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: /buckets/{tableBucketARN}
method: get
operationId: GetTableBucket
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /buckets/{tableBucketARN}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteTableBucket
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: /buckets/{tableBucketARN}/policy
method: get
operationId: GetTableBucketPolicy
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /buckets/{tableBucketARN}/policy
method: put
operationId: PutTableBucketPolicy
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: /buckets/{tableBucketARN}/policy
method: delete
operationId: DeleteTableBucketPolicy
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: /buckets/{tableBucketARN}/maintenance
method: get
operationId: GetTableBucketMaintenanceConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /buckets/{tableBucketARN}/maintenance
method: put
operationId: PutTableBucketMaintenanceConfiguration
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: /namespaces/{tableBucketARN}
method: get
operationId: ListNamespaces
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /namespaces/{tableBucketARN}
method: put
operationId: CreateNamespace
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: /namespaces/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}
method: get
operationId: GetNamespace
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /namespaces/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteNamespace
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: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}
method: get
operationId: ListTables
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}
method: put
operationId: CreateTable
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: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}
method: get
operationId: GetTable
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteTable
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: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}
method: post
operationId: RenameTable
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: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}/policy
method: get
operationId: GetTablePolicy
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}/policy
method: put
operationId: PutTablePolicy
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: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}/policy
method: delete
operationId: DeleteTablePolicy
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: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}/maintenance
method: get
operationId: GetTableMaintenanceConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}/maintenance
method: put
operationId: PutTableMaintenanceConfiguration
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: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}/maintenance-job-status
method: get
operationId: GetTableMaintenanceJobStatus
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}/metadata-location
method: get
operationId: GetTableMetadataLocation
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /tables/{tableBucketARN}/{namespace}/{name}/metadata-location
method: put
operationId: UpdateTableMetadataLocation
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
Work with this as data
Every access contract here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP. Agentic Access is not yet its own endpoint on the v1 API. Reach it through catalog search and the tag graph, or the MCP server.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
Tools for agentic access
3 MCP tools reach this
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/search?q=amazon-s3-agentic-access&limit=10"
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/amazon-s3-agentic-access"
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