GOV.UK Notify · Agentic Access

GOV.UK Notify Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

GOV.UK Notify exposes 11 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 4 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: 7 read, 1 write, and 3 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.

NotificationsEmailSMSText MessagesLettersGovernmentUnited KingdomPublic SectorGDSREST
Operations: 11 Acting: 4 Human-in-the-loop: 0 Method: generated

By consequence

read 7 write 1 physical 3

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 /v2/notifications/email physical conditional
POST /v2/notifications/letter physical conditional
POST /v2/notifications/sms physical conditional

Source

Agentic Access

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/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: 11
  by_action_class:
    acting: 4
    connected: 7
  by_consequence:
    physical: 3
    read: 7
    write: 1
  human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /v2/notifications/sms
  method: post
  operationId: sendSms
  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: /v2/notifications/email
  method: post
  operationId: sendEmail
  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: /v2/notifications/letter
  method: post
  operationId: sendLetter
  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: /v2/notifications/{notification_id}
  method: get
  operationId: getNotification
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v2/notifications/{notification_id}/pdf
  method: get
  operationId: getLetterPdf
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v2/notifications
  method: get
  operationId: listNotifications
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v2/template/{template_id}
  method: get
  operationId: getTemplate
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v2/template/{template_id}/version/{version}
  method: get
  operationId: getTemplateVersion
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v2/templates
  method: get
  operationId: listTemplates
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v2/template/{template_id}/preview
  method: post
  operationId: previewTemplate
  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: /v2/received-text-messages
  method: get
  operationId: listReceivedTextMessages
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none