Gusto · Agentic Access

Gusto Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

Gusto exposes 25 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 17 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: 8 read, 13 write, 3 physical, and 1 safety-critical.

1 operation 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.

Human ResourcesPayrollBenefitsEnterprise SoftwareEmbedded Finance

Operations: 25 Acting: 17 Human-in-the-loop: 1 Method: generated

By consequence

read 8 write 13 physical 3 safety-critical 1

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
DELETE	/v1/companies/{company_id}/bank-accounts/{bank_account_id}	safety-critical	required
PUT	/v1/companies/{company_id}/bank-accounts/verify	physical	conditional
POST	/v1/companies/{company_id}/contractor_payment_groups	physical	conditional
POST	/v1/companies/{company_id}/contractor_payments	physical	conditional

Source

Agentic Access

generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/gusto-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: 25
  by_action_class:
    connected: 8
    acting: 17
  by_consequence:
    read: 8
    write: 13
    physical: 3
    safety-critical: 1
  human_in_the_loop_required: 1
operations:
- path: /v1/companies
  method: get
  operationId: listCompanies
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/partner-managed-companies
  method: post
  operationId: createPartnerManagedCompany
  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: /v1/companies/{company_id}
  method: put
  operationId: updateCompany
  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: /v1/companies/{company_id}/federal_tax_details
  method: get
  operationId: getFederalTaxDetails
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/companies/{company_uuid}/contractors
  method: get
  operationId: listContractors
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/companies/{company_uuid}/contractors
  method: post
  operationId: createContractor
  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: /v1/contractors/{contractor_uuid}
  method: put
  operationId: updateContractor
  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: /v1/employees/{employee_id}/salary_estimates
  method: post
  operationId: createSalaryEstimate
  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: /v1/companies/{company_id}/payrolls
  method: get
  operationId: listPayrolls
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/companies/{company_id}/payrolls
  method: post
  operationId: createOffCyclePayroll
  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: /v1/companies/{company_id}/payrolls/{payroll_id}/submit
  method: put
  operationId: submitPayroll
  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: /v1/companies/{company_id}/payrolls/{payroll_id}/calculate
  method: put
  operationId: calculatePayroll
  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: /v1/companies/{company_id}/contractor_payments
  method: get
  operationId: listContractorPayments
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/companies/{company_id}/contractor_payments
  method: post
  operationId: createContractorPayment
  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/companies/{company_id}/contractor_payment_groups
  method: post
  operationId: createContractorPaymentGroup
  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/companies/{company_id}/bank-accounts
  method: post
  operationId: createBankAccount
  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: /v1/companies/{company_id}/bank-accounts/verify
  method: put
  operationId: verifyBankAccount
  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/companies/{company_id}/bank-accounts/{bank_account_id}
  method: delete
  operationId: deleteBankAccount
  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: /v1/companies/{company_id}/pay_schedules
  method: get
  operationId: listPaySchedules
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/companies/{company_id}/pay_schedules
  method: post
  operationId: createPaySchedule
  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: /v1/companies/{company_id}/pay_schedules/{pay_schedule_id}
  method: put
  operationId: updatePaySchedule
  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: /v1/company/flows
  method: post
  operationId: createFlowLink
  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: /v1/companies/{company_uuid}/reports
  method: post
  operationId: createReport
  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: /v1/reports/{request_uuid}
  method: get
  operationId: getReport
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /v1/events
  method: get
  operationId: listEvents
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none