GOV.UK Pay · Agentic Access

GOV.UK Pay Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

GOV.UK Pay exposes 16 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 7 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 and 7 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.

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Operations: 16 Acting: 7 Human-in-the-loop: 0 Method: generated

By consequence

read 9 physical 7

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	/v1/agreements	physical	conditional
POST	/v1/agreements/{agreementId}/cancel	physical	conditional
POST	/v1/auth	physical	conditional
POST	/v1/payments	physical	conditional
POST	/v1/payments/{paymentId}/cancel	physical	conditional
POST	/v1/payments/{paymentId}/capture	physical	conditional
POST	/v1/payments/{paymentId}/refunds	physical	conditional

Source

Agentic Access

generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/openapi.json
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: 16
  by_action_class:
    connected: 9
    acting: 7
  by_consequence:
    read: 9
    physical: 7
  human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /v1/agreements
  method: get
  operationId: Search agreements
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/agreements
  method: post
  operationId: Create an agreement
  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: /v1/agreements/{agreementId}
  method: get
  operationId: Get an agreement
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/agreements/{agreementId}/cancel
  method: post
  operationId: Cancel an agreement
  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: /v1/auth
  method: post
  operationId: Authorise a MOTO payment
  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: /v1/disputes
  method: get
  operationId: Search disputes
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/payments
  method: get
  operationId: Search payments
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/payments
  method: post
  operationId: Create a payment
  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: /v1/payments/{paymentId}
  method: get
  operationId: Get a payment
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/payments/{paymentId}/cancel
  method: post
  operationId: Cancel a payment
  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: /v1/payments/{paymentId}/capture
  method: post
  operationId: Capture a payment
  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: /v1/payments/{paymentId}/events
  method: get
  operationId: Get events for a payment
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/payments/{paymentId}/refunds
  method: get
  operationId: Get all refunds for a payment
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/payments/{paymentId}/refunds
  method: post
  operationId: Submit a refund for a payment
  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: /v1/payments/{paymentId}/refunds/{refundId}
  method: get
  operationId: Get a payment refund
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/refunds
  method: get
  operationId: Search refunds
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none