PubMed · Agentic Access

PubMed Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

PubMed exposes 9 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 1 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 and 1 write.

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: 9 Acting: 1 Human-in-the-loop: 0 Method: generated

By consequence

read 8 write 1

Source

Agentic Access

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generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/entrez-eutils.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: 9
  by_action_class:
    connected: 8
    acting: 1
  by_consequence:
    read: 8
    write: 1
  human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /esearch.fcgi
  method: get
  operationId: ESearch
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /efetch.fcgi
  method: get
  operationId: EFetch
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /esummary.fcgi
  method: get
  operationId: ESummary
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /elink.fcgi
  method: get
  operationId: ELink
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /epost.fcgi
  method: post
  operationId: EPost
  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: /einfo.fcgi
  method: get
  operationId: EInfo
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /espell.fcgi
  method: get
  operationId: ESpell
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /egquery.fcgi
  method: get
  operationId: EGQuery
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /ecitmatch.cgi
  method: get
  operationId: ECitMatch
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none