RunPod Agentic Access
RunPod exposes 37 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 22 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, 20 write, and 2 safety-critical.
2 operations 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.
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 | /pods/{podId}/reset | safety-critical | required |
| POST | /pods/{podId}/stop | safety-critical | required |
Source
Agentic Access
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/runpod-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: 37
by_action_class:
connected: 15
acting: 22
by_consequence:
read: 15
write: 20
safety-critical: 2
human_in_the_loop_required: 2
operations:
- path: /openapi.json
method: get
operationId: getOpenAPISpec
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /docs
method: get
operationId: getDocs
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /pods
method: get
operationId: listPods
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /pods
method: post
operationId: createPod
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: /pods/{podId}
method: get
operationId: getPod
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /pods/{podId}
method: patch
operationId: patchPod
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: /pods/{podId}
method: delete
operationId: deletePod
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: /pods/{podId}/update
method: post
operationId: updatePod
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: /pods/{podId}/start
method: post
operationId: startPod
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: /pods/{podId}/stop
method: post
operationId: stopPod
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: /pods/{podId}/reset
method: post
operationId: resetPod
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: /pods/{podId}/restart
method: post
operationId: restartPod
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: /endpoints
method: get
operationId: listEndpoints
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /endpoints
method: post
operationId: createEndpoint
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: /endpoints/{endpointId}
method: get
operationId: getEndpoint
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /endpoints/{endpointId}
method: patch
operationId: patchEndpoint
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: /endpoints/{endpointId}
method: delete
operationId: deleteEndpoint
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: /endpoints/{endpointId}/update
method: post
operationId: updateEndpoint
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: /templates
method: get
operationId: listTemplates
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /templates
method: post
operationId: createTemplate
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: /templates/{templateId}
method: get
operationId: getTemplate
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /templates/{templateId}
method: patch
operationId: patchTemplate
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: /templates/{templateId}
method: delete
operationId: deleteTemplate
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: /templates/{templateId}/update
method: post
operationId: updateTemplate
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: /networkvolumes
method: get
operationId: listNetworkVolumes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /networkvolumes
method: post
operationId: createNetworkVolume
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: /networkvolumes/{networkVolumeId}
method: get
operationId: getNetworkVolume
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /networkvolumes/{networkVolumeId}
method: patch
operationId: patchNetworkVolume
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: /networkvolumes/{networkVolumeId}
method: delete
operationId: deleteNetworkVolume
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: /networkvolumes/{networkVolumeId}/update
method: post
operationId: updateNetworkVolume
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: /containerregistryauth
method: get
operationId: listContainerRegistryAuth
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /containerregistryauth
method: post
operationId: createContainerRegistryAuth
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: /containerregistryauth/{containerRegistryAuthId}
method: get
operationId: getContainerRegistryAuth
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /containerregistryauth/{containerRegistryAuthId}
method: delete
operationId: deleteContainerRegistryAuth
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: /billing/pods
method: get
operationId: getBillingPods
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /billing/endpoints
method: get
operationId: getBillingEndpoints
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /billing/networkvolumes
method: get
operationId: getBillingNetworkVolumes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none