Azure Container Instances · Agentic Access

Azure Container Instances Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

Azure Container Instances exposes 16 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 8 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: 8 read, 7 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.

AzureCloudContainer InstancesContainersMicrosoftServerless
Operations: 16 Acting: 8 Human-in-the-loop: 1 Method: generated

By consequence

read 8 write 7 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.

MethodPathConsequenceHuman-in-loop
POST /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}/stop safety-critical required

Source

Agentic Access

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generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/azure-container-instances-openapi.yaml
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: 16
  by_action_class:
    connected: 8
    acting: 8
  by_consequence:
    read: 8
    write: 7
    safety-critical: 1
  human_in_the_loop_required: 1
operations:
- path: /providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/operations
  method: get
  operationId: Operations_List
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups
  method: get
  operationId: ContainerGroups_List
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/locations/{location}/cachedImages
  method: get
  operationId: ListCachedImages
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/locations/{location}/capabilities
  method: get
  operationId: ListCapabilities
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/locations/{location}/usages
  method: get
  operationId: ContainerGroupUsage_List
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups
  method: get
  operationId: ContainerGroups_ListByResourceGroup
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}
  method: delete
  operationId: ContainerGroups_Delete
  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
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}
  method: get
  operationId: ContainerGroups_Get
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}
  method: patch
  operationId: ContainerGroups_Update
  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
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}
  method: put
  operationId: ContainerGroups_CreateOrUpdate
  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
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}/containers/{containerName}/exec
  method: post
  operationId: Container_ExecuteCommand
  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
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}/containers/{containerName}/logs
  method: get
  operationId: Container_ListLogs
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}/restart
  method: post
  operationId: ContainerGroups_Restart
  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
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}/start
  method: post
  operationId: ContainerGroups_Start
  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
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}/stop
  method: post
  operationId: ContainerGroups_Stop
  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
    scope:
    - user_impersonation
- path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/{virtualNetworkName}/subnets/{subnetName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/serviceAssociationLinks/default
  method: delete
  operationId: ServiceAssociationLink_Delete
  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
    scope:
    - user_impersonation