Semantic Scholar · Agentic Access

Semantic Scholar Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

Semantic Scholar exposes 20 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 3 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: 17 read and 3 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.

AcademicResearchPapersCitationsAuthorsScientific LiteratureAIRecommendations
Operations: 20 Acting: 3 Human-in-the-loop: 0 Method: generated

By consequence

read 17 write 3

Source

Agentic Access

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/semantic-scholar-academic-graph-openapi.yml, openapi/semantic-scholar-datasets-openapi.yml,
  openapi/semantic-scholar-recommendations-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: 20
  by_action_class:
    acting: 3
    connected: 17
  by_consequence:
    write: 3
    read: 17
  human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /author/batch
  method: post
  operationId: post_graph_get_authors
  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: /author/search
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_get_author_search
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /author/{author_id}
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_get_author
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /author/{author_id}/papers
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_get_author_papers
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /paper/autocomplete
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_get_paper_autocomplete
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /paper/batch
  method: post
  operationId: post_graph_get_papers
  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: /paper/search
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_paper_relevance_search
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /paper/search/bulk
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_paper_bulk_search
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /paper/search/match
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_paper_title_search
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /paper/{paper_id}
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_get_paper
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /paper/{paper_id}/authors
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_get_paper_authors
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /paper/{paper_id}/citations
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_get_paper_citations
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /paper/{paper_id}/references
  method: get
  operationId: get_graph_get_paper_references
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /snippet/search
  method: get
  operationId: get_snippet_search
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /diffs/{start_release_id}/to/{end_release_id}/{dataset_name}
  method: get
  operationId: get_diff
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /release/
  method: get
  operationId: get_releases
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /release/{release_id}
  method: get
  operationId: get_release
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /release/{release_id}/dataset/{dataset_name}
  method: get
  operationId: get_dataset
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /papers/
  method: post
  operationId: post_papers
  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: /papers/forpaper/{paper_id}
  method: get
  operationId: get_papers_for_paper
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none