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Google Cloud Platform APIs Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

Google Cloud Platform APIs exposes 18 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 9 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: 9 read, 7 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: 18 Acting: 9 Human-in-the-loop: 2 Method: generated

By consequence

read 9 write 7 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	/projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances/{instance}/reset	safety-critical	required
POST	/projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances/{instance}/stop	safety-critical	required

Source

Agentic Access

generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/gcp-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: 18
  by_action_class:
    connected: 9
    acting: 9
  by_consequence:
    read: 9
    write: 7
    safety-critical: 2
  human_in_the_loop_required: 2
operations:
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances
  method: get
  operationId: listInstances
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances
  method: post
  operationId: insertInstance
  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:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances/{instance}
  method: get
  operationId: getInstance
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances/{instance}
  method: delete
  operationId: deleteInstance
  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:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances/{instance}/start
  method: post
  operationId: startInstance
  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:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances/{instance}/stop
  method: post
  operationId: stopInstance
  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:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances/{instance}/reset
  method: post
  operationId: resetInstance
  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:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/disks
  method: get
  operationId: listDisks
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/disks
  method: post
  operationId: insertDisk
  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:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/disks/{disk}
  method: get
  operationId: getDisk
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/disks/{disk}
  method: delete
  operationId: deleteDisk
  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:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/global/images
  method: get
  operationId: listImages
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/global/snapshots
  method: get
  operationId: listSnapshots
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/global/networks
  method: get
  operationId: listNetworks
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/global/networks
  method: post
  operationId: insertNetwork
  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:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/global/firewalls
  method: get
  operationId: listFirewalls
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/global/firewalls
  method: post
  operationId: insertFirewall
  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:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- path: /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/machineTypes
  method: get
  operationId: listMachineTypes
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
    scope:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute