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x-agentic-access generated

CloudFront exposes 23 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 11 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: 12 read, 9 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.

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Operations: 23 Acting: 11 Human-in-the-loop: 2 Method: generated

By consequence

read 12 write 9 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	/2020-05-31/origin-access-control	safety-critical	required
DELETE	/2020-05-31/origin-access-control/{Id}	safety-critical	required

Source

Agentic Access

generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/cloudfront-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: 23
  by_action_class:
    connected: 12
    acting: 11
  by_consequence:
    read: 12
    write: 9
    safety-critical: 2
  human_in_the_loop_required: 2
operations:
- path: /2020-05-31/distribution
  method: get
  operationId: listDistributions
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/distribution
  method: post
  operationId: createDistribution
  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: /2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}
  method: get
  operationId: getDistribution
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}
  method: delete
  operationId: deleteDistribution
  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: /2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}/config
  method: get
  operationId: getDistributionConfig
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/distribution/{Id}/config
  method: put
  operationId: updateDistribution
  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: /2020-05-31/distribution/{DistributionId}/invalidation
  method: get
  operationId: listInvalidations
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/distribution/{DistributionId}/invalidation
  method: post
  operationId: createInvalidation
  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: /2020-05-31/distribution/{DistributionId}/invalidation/{Id}
  method: get
  operationId: getInvalidation
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/origin-access-control
  method: get
  operationId: listOriginAccessControls
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/origin-access-control
  method: post
  operationId: createOriginAccessControl
  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: /2020-05-31/origin-access-control/{Id}
  method: get
  operationId: getOriginAccessControl
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/origin-access-control/{Id}
  method: delete
  operationId: deleteOriginAccessControl
  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: /2020-05-31/cache-policy
  method: get
  operationId: listCachePolicies
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/cache-policy
  method: post
  operationId: createCachePolicy
  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: /2020-05-31/cache-policy/{Id}
  method: get
  operationId: getCachePolicy
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/cache-policy/{Id}
  method: delete
  operationId: deleteCachePolicy
  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: /2020-05-31/function
  method: get
  operationId: listFunctions
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/function
  method: post
  operationId: createFunction
  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: /2020-05-31/function/{Name}
  method: get
  operationId: describeFunction
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/function/{Name}
  method: delete
  operationId: deleteFunction
  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: /2020-05-31/public-key
  method: get
  operationId: listPublicKeys
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /2020-05-31/public-key
  method: post
  operationId: createPublicKey
  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