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Hacker News Agentic Access

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Hacker News exposes 10 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 0 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: 10 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.

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Operations: 10 Acting: 0 Human-in-the-loop: 0 Method: generated

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read 10

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generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/hacker-news-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: 10
  by_action_class:
    connected: 10
  by_consequence:
    read: 10
  human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /item/{id}.json
  method: get
  operationId: getItem
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /user/{username}.json
  method: get
  operationId: getUser
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /maxitem.json
  method: get
  operationId: getMaxItem
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /topstories.json
  method: get
  operationId: getTopStories
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /newstories.json
  method: get
  operationId: getNewStories
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /beststories.json
  method: get
  operationId: getBestStories
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /askstories.json
  method: get
  operationId: getAskStories
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /showstories.json
  method: get
  operationId: getShowStories
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /jobstories.json
  method: get
  operationId: getJobStories
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /updates.json
  method: get
  operationId: getUpdates
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none