Chroma · Agentic Access

Chroma Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

Chroma exposes 24 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 13 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: 11 read, 12 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.

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Operations: 24 Acting: 13 Human-in-the-loop: 1 Method: generated

By consequence

read 11 write 12 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 /api/v2/reset safety-critical required

Source

Agentic Access

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/chroma-db-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:
    connected: 11
    acting: 13
  by_consequence:
    read: 11
    safety-critical: 1
    write: 12
  human_in_the_loop_required: 1
operations:
- path: /api/v2/heartbeat
  method: get
  operationId: heartbeat
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/healthcheck
  method: get
  operationId: healthcheck
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/version
  method: get
  operationId: version
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/pre-flight-checks
  method: get
  operationId: preFlightChecks
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/reset
  method: post
  operationId: reset
  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: /api/v2/tenants
  method: post
  operationId: createTenant
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}
  method: get
  operationId: getTenant
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases
  method: get
  operationId: listDatabases
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases
  method: post
  operationId: createDatabase
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}
  method: get
  operationId: getDatabase
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}
  method: delete
  operationId: deleteDatabase
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections
  method: get
  operationId: listCollections
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections
  method: post
  operationId: createCollection
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections_count
  method: get
  operationId: countCollections
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}
  method: get
  operationId: getCollection
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}
  method: put
  operationId: updateCollection
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}
  method: delete
  operationId: deleteCollection
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}/count
  method: get
  operationId: countRecords
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}/add
  method: post
  operationId: addRecords
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}/upsert
  method: post
  operationId: upsertRecords
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}/update
  method: post
  operationId: updateRecords
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}/get
  method: post
  operationId: getRecords
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}/delete
  method: post
  operationId: deleteRecords
  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: /api/v2/tenants/{tenant}/databases/{database}/collections/{collection_id}/query
  method: post
  operationId: queryCollection
  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