Amazon Simple Workflow Service · Agentic Access
Amazon Simple Workflow Service Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated
Amazon Simple Workflow Service exposes 37 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 37 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: 35 write and 2 safety-critical.
2 operations 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.
AutomationTask CoordinationWorkflow
Operations: 37 Acting: 37 Human-in-the-loop: 2 Method: generated
By consequence

write 35 safety-critical 2
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
POST	/#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.ListOpenWorkflowExecutions	safety-critical	required
POST	/#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.TerminateWorkflowExecution	safety-critical	required
Source

Agentic Access

generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/amazon-swf-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: 37
  by_action_class:
    acting: 37
  by_consequence:
    write: 35
    safety-critical: 2
  human_in_the_loop_required: 2
operations:
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.CountClosedWorkflowExecutions
  method: post
  operationId: CountClosedWorkflowExecutions
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.CountOpenWorkflowExecutions
  method: post
  operationId: CountOpenWorkflowExecutions
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.CountPendingActivityTasks
  method: post
  operationId: CountPendingActivityTasks
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.CountPendingDecisionTasks
  method: post
  operationId: CountPendingDecisionTasks
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.DeprecateActivityType
  method: post
  operationId: DeprecateActivityType
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.DeprecateDomain
  method: post
  operationId: DeprecateDomain
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.DeprecateWorkflowType
  method: post
  operationId: DeprecateWorkflowType
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.DescribeActivityType
  method: post
  operationId: DescribeActivityType
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.DescribeDomain
  method: post
  operationId: DescribeDomain
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.DescribeWorkflowExecution
  method: post
  operationId: DescribeWorkflowExecution
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.DescribeWorkflowType
  method: post
  operationId: DescribeWorkflowType
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.GetWorkflowExecutionHistory
  method: post
  operationId: GetWorkflowExecutionHistory
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.ListActivityTypes
  method: post
  operationId: ListActivityTypes
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.ListClosedWorkflowExecutions
  method: post
  operationId: ListClosedWorkflowExecutions
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.ListDomains
  method: post
  operationId: ListDomains
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.ListOpenWorkflowExecutions
  method: post
  operationId: ListOpenWorkflowExecutions
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.ListTagsForResource
  method: post
  operationId: ListTagsForResource
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.ListWorkflowTypes
  method: post
  operationId: ListWorkflowTypes
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.PollForActivityTask
  method: post
  operationId: PollForActivityTask
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.PollForDecisionTask
  method: post
  operationId: PollForDecisionTask
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.RecordActivityTaskHeartbeat
  method: post
  operationId: RecordActivityTaskHeartbeat
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.RegisterActivityType
  method: post
  operationId: RegisterActivityType
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.RegisterDomain
  method: post
  operationId: RegisterDomain
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.RegisterWorkflowType
  method: post
  operationId: RegisterWorkflowType
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.RequestCancelWorkflowExecution
  method: post
  operationId: RequestCancelWorkflowExecution
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.RespondActivityTaskCanceled
  method: post
  operationId: RespondActivityTaskCanceled
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.RespondActivityTaskCompleted
  method: post
  operationId: RespondActivityTaskCompleted
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.RespondActivityTaskFailed
  method: post
  operationId: RespondActivityTaskFailed
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.RespondDecisionTaskCompleted
  method: post
  operationId: RespondDecisionTaskCompleted
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.SignalWorkflowExecution
  method: post
  operationId: SignalWorkflowExecution
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.StartWorkflowExecution
  method: post
  operationId: StartWorkflowExecution
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.TagResource
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.TerminateWorkflowExecution
  method: post
  operationId: TerminateWorkflowExecution
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.UndeprecateActivityType
  method: post
  operationId: UndeprecateActivityType
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.UndeprecateDomain
  method: post
  operationId: UndeprecateDomain
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.UndeprecateWorkflowType
  method: post
  operationId: UndeprecateWorkflowType
  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: /#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.UntagResource
  method: post
  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