Benchling Agentic Access
Benchling exposes 89 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 47 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: 42 read, 45 write, and 2 physical.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POST | /containers/{destination_container_id}:transfer | physical | conditional |
| POST | /containers:check-out | physical | conditional |
Source
Agentic Access
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/benchling-lims-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: 89
by_action_class:
connected: 42
acting: 47
by_consequence:
read: 42
write: 45
physical: 2
human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /registries
method: get
operationId: listRegistries
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /registries/{registry_id}
method: get
operationId: getRegistry
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /registries/{registry_id}/entity-schemas
method: get
operationId: listEntitySchemasForRegistry
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /registries/{registry_id}:bulk-register-entities
method: post
operationId: bulkRegisterEntities
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: /registries/{registry_id}:unregister-entities
method: post
operationId: unregisterEntities
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: /custom-entities
method: get
operationId: listCustomEntities
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /custom-entities
method: post
operationId: createCustomEntity
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: /custom-entities/{custom_entity_id}
method: get
operationId: getCustomEntity
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /custom-entities/{custom_entity_id}
method: patch
operationId: updateCustomEntity
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: /custom-entities:bulk-create
method: post
operationId: bulkCreateCustomEntities
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: /custom-entities:bulk-upsert
method: post
operationId: bulkUpsertCustomEntities
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: /dna-sequences
method: get
operationId: listDnaSequences
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /dna-sequences
method: post
operationId: createDnaSequence
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: /dna-sequences/{dna_sequence_id}
method: get
operationId: getDnaSequence
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /dna-sequences/{dna_sequence_id}
method: patch
operationId: updateDnaSequence
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: /dna-sequences:auto-annotate
method: post
operationId: autoAnnotateDnaSequences
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: /dna-sequences:optimize-codons
method: post
operationId: optimizeCodons
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: /dna-sequences:bulk-create
method: post
operationId: bulkCreateDnaSequences
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: /rna-sequences
method: get
operationId: listRnaSequences
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /rna-sequences
method: post
operationId: createRnaSequence
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: /aa-sequences
method: get
operationId: listAaSequences
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /aa-sequences
method: post
operationId: createAaSequence
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: /aa-sequences:back-translate
method: post
operationId: backTranslateAaSequence
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: /dna-oligos
method: get
operationId: listDnaOligos
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /dna-oligos
method: post
operationId: createDnaOligo
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: /molecules
method: get
operationId: listMolecules
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /molecules
method: post
operationId: createMolecule
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: /locations
method: get
operationId: listLocations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /locations
method: post
operationId: createLocation
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: /boxes
method: get
operationId: listBoxes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /boxes
method: post
operationId: createBox
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: /boxes/{box_id}/contents
method: get
operationId: listBoxContents
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /containers
method: get
operationId: listContainers
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /containers
method: post
operationId: createContainer
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: /containers/{destination_container_id}:transfer
method: post
operationId: transferIntoContainer
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: physical
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 300
exchange: true
purpose-required: true
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /containers:check-out
method: post
operationId: checkOutContainers
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: physical
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 300
exchange: true
purpose-required: true
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /plates
method: get
operationId: listPlates
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /plates
method: post
operationId: createPlate
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: /entries
method: get
operationId: listEntries
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /entries
method: post
operationId: createEntry
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: /entries/{entry_id}
method: get
operationId: getEntry
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /entries/{entry_id}
method: patch
operationId: updateEntry
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: /entry-templates
method: get
operationId: listEntryTemplates
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /projects
method: get
operationId: listProjects
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /folders
method: get
operationId: listFolders
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /folders
method: post
operationId: createFolder
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: /assay-results
method: get
operationId: listAssayResults
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /assay-results
method: post
operationId: createAssayResult
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: /assay-results:bulk-create
method: post
operationId: bulkCreateAssayResults
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: /result-transactions
method: post
operationId: createResultTransaction
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: /result-transactions/{transaction_id}:commit
method: post
operationId: commitResultTransaction
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: /assay-runs
method: get
operationId: listAssayRuns
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /assay-runs
method: post
operationId: createAssayRuns
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: /automation-output-processors
method: get
operationId: listAutomationOutputProcessors
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /automation-output-processors
method: post
operationId: createAutomationOutputProcessor
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: /automation-output-processors/{output_processor_id}:process-output
method: post
operationId: processAutomationOutput
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: /datasets
method: get
operationId: listDatasets
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /datasets
method: post
operationId: createDataset
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: /workflow-task-groups
method: get
operationId: listWorkflowTaskGroups
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /workflow-task-groups
method: post
operationId: createWorkflowTaskGroup
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: /workflow-tasks
method: get
operationId: listWorkflowTasks
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /workflow-tasks
method: post
operationId: createWorkflowTask
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: /workflow-tasks/{workflow_task_id}
method: get
operationId: getWorkflowTask
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /workflow-tasks/{workflow_task_id}
method: patch
operationId: updateWorkflowTask
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: /workflow-outputs
method: get
operationId: listWorkflowOutputs
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /workflow-outputs
method: post
operationId: createWorkflowOutput
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: /requests
method: get
operationId: listRequests
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /requests
method: post
operationId: createRequest
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: /requests/{request_id}
method: get
operationId: getRequest
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /requests/{request_id}
method: patch
operationId: updateRequest
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: /requests/{request_id}:execute-sample-groups
method: post
operationId: executeRequestSampleGroups
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: /request-fulfillments
method: get
operationId: listRequestFulfillments
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /events
method: get
operationId: listEvents
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apps
method: get
operationId: listApps
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apps
method: post
operationId: createApp
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: /apps/{app_id}
method: get
operationId: getApp
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /app-configuration-items
method: get
operationId: listAppConfigurationItems
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /app-canvases
method: post
operationId: createAppCanvas
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: /app-sessions
method: post
operationId: createAppSession
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: /users
method: get
operationId: listUsers
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /users
method: post
operationId: createUser
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: /teams
method: get
operationId: listTeams
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /teams/{team_id}/memberships
method: get
operationId: listTeamMemberships
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /organizations
method: get
operationId: listOrganizations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /blobs
method: post
operationId: createBlob
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: /blobs:start-multipart-upload
method: post
operationId: startMultipartBlobUpload
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