Red Hat OpenShift Agentic Access
Red Hat OpenShift exposes 30 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 15 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: 15 read, 14 write, and 1 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.
By consequence
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 | /apis/apps.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/deploymentconfigs | physical | conditional |
Source
Agentic Access
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/red-hat-openshift-api-openapi.yml, openapi/red-hat-openshift-cluster-manager-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: 30
by_action_class:
connected: 15
acting: 15
by_consequence:
read: 15
write: 14
physical: 1
human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /apis/project.openshift.io/v1/projects
method: get
operationId: listProjects
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apis/project.openshift.io/v1/projects
method: post
operationId: createProject
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: /apis/project.openshift.io/v1/projects/{name}
method: get
operationId: getProject
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apis/project.openshift.io/v1/projects/{name}
method: put
operationId: updateProject
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: /apis/project.openshift.io/v1/projects/{name}
method: delete
operationId: deleteProject
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: /apis/route.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/routes
method: get
operationId: listRoutes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apis/route.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/routes
method: post
operationId: createRoute
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: /apis/route.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/routes/{name}
method: get
operationId: getRoute
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apis/route.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/routes/{name}
method: put
operationId: updateRoute
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: /apis/route.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/routes/{name}
method: delete
operationId: deleteRoute
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: /apis/build.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/buildconfigs
method: get
operationId: listBuildConfigs
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apis/build.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/buildconfigs
method: post
operationId: createBuildConfig
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: /apis/build.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/builds
method: get
operationId: listBuilds
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apis/image.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/imagestreams
method: get
operationId: listImageStreams
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apis/image.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/imagestreams
method: post
operationId: createImageStream
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: /apis/security.openshift.io/v1/securitycontextconstraints
method: get
operationId: listSecurityContextConstraints
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apis/apps.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/deploymentconfigs
method: get
operationId: listDeploymentConfigs
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /apis/apps.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/deploymentconfigs
method: post
operationId: createDeploymentConfig
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: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters
method: get
operationId: listClusters
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters
method: post
operationId: createCluster
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: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}
method: get
operationId: getCluster
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}
method: patch
operationId: updateCluster
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: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}
method: delete
operationId: deleteCluster
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: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/addons
method: get
operationId: listClusterAddons
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/addons
method: post
operationId: installClusterAddon
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: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/identity_providers
method: get
operationId: listIdentityProviders
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/identity_providers
method: post
operationId: createIdentityProvider
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: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/machine_pools
method: get
operationId: listMachinePools
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/clusters/{cluster_id}/machine_pools
method: post
operationId: createMachinePool
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: /api/clusters_mgmt/v1/versions
method: get
operationId: listVersions
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none