Cognism Agentic Access
Cognism exposes 25 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 1 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: 24 read.
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
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Agentic Access
generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: openapi/cognism-api-openapi.yml
description: Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for the Cognism API. The baseline was generated
mechanically from the OpenAPI, then CURATED against what Cognism actually documents. The mechanical
pass classified all six POST operations as acting/write; five of them - searchContacts, searchAccounts,
enrichContact, enrichAccount and redeemAccounts - are POST-shaped reads that mutate nothing and consume
no credits, and have been reclassified. redeemContacts was raised to acting/financial because it is
the single operation in this API that spends money, and it has no idempotency key to protect a retry.
A governance starting point - bind audience per deployment.
summary:
operations: 25
by_action_class:
connected: 24
acting: 1
by_consequence:
read: 24
financial: 1
human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /api/search/contact/search
method: post
operationId: searchContacts
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: recommended
x-curation-note: POST but semantically a read - the body is a filter set, not a mutation. Consumes
no credits.
- path: /api/search/account/search
method: post
operationId: searchAccounts
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: recommended
x-curation-note: POST but semantically a read. Consumes no credits.
- path: /api/search/contact/redeem
method: post
operationId: redeemContacts
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: financial
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 300
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- batch-size
- spend-threshold
- abnormal
audit: required
purpose: required
x-curation-note: THE metered operation. First redemption of a contact consumes a credit; re-redemption
of an already-redeemed contact is free. There is no idempotency key, so a retry of a first redemption
can spend twice. Cap the token, require a purpose, audit every call, and escalate on batch size
or spend threshold.
- path: /api/search/account/redeem
method: post
operationId: redeemAccounts
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: recommended
x-curation-note: Redeem verb, but account redemptions are explicitly free of credits.
- path: /api/search/contact/enrich
method: post
operationId: enrichContact
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: recommended
x-curation-note: POST but semantically a read - matches an input record against the database. Consumes
no credits.
- path: /api/search/account/enrich
method: post
operationId: enrichAccount
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: recommended
x-curation-note: POST but semantically a read. Consumes no credits.
- path: /api/search/entitlement/contactEntitlementSubscription
method: get
operationId: getContactEntitlement
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/entitlement/accountEntitlementSubscription
method: get
operationId: getAccountEntitlement
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/technologiesSearch
method: get
operationId: listTechnologies
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/managementLevels
method: get
operationId: listManagementLevels
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/companySizes
method: get
operationId: listCompanySizes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/industries
method: get
operationId: listIndustries
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/jobFunctions
method: get
operationId: listJobFunctions
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/regions
method: get
operationId: listRegions
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/countries
method: get
operationId: listCountries
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/states
method: get
operationId: listStates
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/sic
method: get
operationId: listSicCodes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/isic
method: get
operationId: listIsicCodes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/naics
method: get
operationId: listNaicsCodes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/skills
method: get
operationId: listSkills
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/companyTypes
method: get
operationId: listCompanyTypes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/filter/seniority
method: get
operationId: listSeniorityLevels
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/contact/optOut
method: get
operationId: listOptOutContacts
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/contact/optOut/email/{email}
method: get
operationId: getOptOutByEmail
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/search/contact/optOut/id/{id}
method: get
operationId: getOptOutById
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
curated: '2026-08-13'
curation_source:
- https://help.cognism.com/hc/en-gb/articles/37383428888978-API-Authentication-Credits
- conventions/cognism-conventions.yml
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