AWS Batch · Agentic Access

AWS Batch Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

AWS Batch exposes 24 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 23 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: 1 read, 22 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.

Batch ComputingComputeHPCJob SchedulingContainersManaged Service

Operations: 24 Acting: 23 Human-in-the-loop: 1 Method: generated

By consequence

read 1 write 22 safety-critical 1

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	/v1/terminatejob	safety-critical	required

Source

Agentic Access

generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/aws-batch-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: 24
  by_action_class:
    acting: 23
    connected: 1
  by_consequence:
    write: 22
    safety-critical: 1
    read: 1
  human_in_the_loop_required: 1
operations:
- path: /v1/createcomputeenvironment
  method: post
  operationId: CreateComputeEnvironment
  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/describecomputeenvironments
  method: post
  operationId: DescribeComputeEnvironments
  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/updatecomputeenvironment
  method: post
  operationId: UpdateComputeEnvironment
  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/deletecomputeenvironment
  method: post
  operationId: DeleteComputeEnvironment
  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/createjobqueue
  method: post
  operationId: CreateJobQueue
  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/describejobqueues
  method: post
  operationId: DescribeJobQueues
  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/updatejobqueue
  method: post
  operationId: UpdateJobQueue
  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/deletejobqueue
  method: post
  operationId: DeleteJobQueue
  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/registerjobdefinition
  method: post
  operationId: RegisterJobDefinition
  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/describejobdefinitions
  method: post
  operationId: DescribeJobDefinitions
  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/deregisterjobdefinition
  method: post
  operationId: DeregisterJobDefinition
  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/submitjob
  method: post
  operationId: SubmitJob
  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/listjobs
  method: post
  operationId: ListJobs
  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/describejobs
  method: post
  operationId: DescribeJobs
  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/canceljob
  method: post
  operationId: CancelJob
  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/terminatejob
  method: post
  operationId: TerminateJob
  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/createschedulingpolicy
  method: post
  operationId: CreateSchedulingPolicy
  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/describeschedulingpolicies
  method: post
  operationId: DescribeSchedulingPolicies
  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/listschedulingpolicies
  method: post
  operationId: ListSchedulingPolicies
  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/updateschedulingpolicy
  method: post
  operationId: UpdateSchedulingPolicy
  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/deleteschedulingpolicy
  method: post
  operationId: DeleteSchedulingPolicy
  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/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/tags/{resourceArn}
  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