SmallStep Agentic Access
SmallStep exposes 74 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 44 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: 30 read, 39 write, 4 physical, and 1 safety-critical.
1 operation 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 | /certificates/{serialNumber}/revoke | safety-critical | required |
| POST | /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners | physical | conditional |
| DELETE | /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners/{provisionerNameOrID} | physical | conditional |
| POST | /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners/{provisionerNameOrID}/webhooks | physical | conditional |
| DELETE | /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners/{provisionerNameOrID}/webhooks/{webhookNameOrID} | physical | conditional |
Source
Agentic Access
generated: '2026-07-21'
method: generated
source: openapi/smallstep-openapi-original.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: 74
by_action_class:
connected: 30
acting: 44
by_consequence:
read: 30
write: 39
physical: 4
safety-critical: 1
human_in_the_loop_required: 1
operations:
- path: /accounts
method: get
operationId: ListAccounts
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-accounts
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /accounts
method: post
operationId: PostAccounts
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-accounts
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /accounts/{accountID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteAccount
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-account
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /accounts/{accountID}
method: get
operationId: GetAccount
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-account
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /accounts/{accountID}
method: put
operationId: PutAccount
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-account
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /auth
method: post
operationId: PostAuth
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: /authorities
method: get
operationId: GetAuthorities
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-authorities
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /authorities
method: post
operationId: PostAuthorities
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-authorities
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /authorities/csr
method: post
operationId: PostAuthoritiesCsr
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-authorities-csr
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /authorities/{authorityDomainOrID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteAuthority
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-authority
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /authorities/{authorityDomainOrID}
method: get
operationId: GetAuthority
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-authority
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners
method: get
operationId: ListAuthorityProvisioners
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-authority-provisioners
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners
method: post
operationId: PostAuthorityProvisioners
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: physical
subject: required
scope:
- post-authority-provisioners
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 300
exchange: true
purpose-required: true
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners/{provisionerNameOrID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteProvisioner
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: physical
subject: required
scope:
- delete-provisioner
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 300
exchange: true
purpose-required: true
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners/{provisionerNameOrID}
method: get
operationId: GetProvisioner
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-provisioner
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners/{provisionerNameOrID}/webhooks
method: post
operationId: PostWebhooks
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: physical
subject: required
scope:
- post-webhooks
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 300
exchange: true
purpose-required: true
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners/{provisionerNameOrID}/webhooks/{webhookNameOrID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteWebhook
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: physical
subject: required
scope:
- delete-webhook
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 300
exchange: true
purpose-required: true
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /authorities/{authorityID}/provisioners/{provisionerNameOrID}/webhooks/{webhookNameOrID}
method: get
operationId: GetWebhook
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-webhook
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /authorities/{authorityID}/root
method: post
operationId: PostAuthorityRoot
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-authority-root
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /certificates
method: get
operationId: ListCertificates
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-certificates
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /certificates/search
method: get
operationId: SearchCertificates
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- search-certificates
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /certificates/{serialNumber}
method: get
operationId: GetCertificate
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-certificate
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /certificates/{serialNumber}/revoke
method: post
operationId: RevokeCertificate
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: safety-critical
subject: required
scope:
- revoke-certificate
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 120
exchange: true
purpose-required: true
proof-of-possession: true
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: required
audit: required
- path: /credential/{credentialID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteCredential
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-credential
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /credential/{credentialID}
method: get
operationId: GetCredential
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-credential
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /credential/{credentialID}
method: put
operationId: PutCredential
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-credential
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /credentials
method: get
operationId: ListCredentials
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-credentials
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /credentials
method: post
operationId: PostCredentials
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-credentials
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /devices
method: get
operationId: ListDevices
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-devices
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /devices
method: post
operationId: PostDevices
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-devices
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /devices/{deviceID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteDevice
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-device
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /devices/{deviceID}
method: get
operationId: GetDevice
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-device
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /devices/{deviceID}
method: patch
operationId: PatchDevice
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- patch-device
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /devices/{deviceID}/lifecycle
method: patch
operationId: PatchDeviceLifecycle
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- patch-device-lifecycle
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /endpoint-configurations
method: get
operationId: ListEndpointConfigurations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-endpoint-configurations
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /endpoint-configurations
method: post
operationId: PostEndpointConfigurations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-endpoint-configurations
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /endpoint-configurations/{endpointConfigurationID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteEndpointConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-endpoint-configuration
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /endpoint-configurations/{endpointConfigurationID}
method: get
operationId: GetEndpointConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-endpoint-configuration
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /endpoint-configurations/{endpointConfigurationID}
method: put
operationId: PutEndpointConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-endpoint-configuration
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /managed-radius
method: get
operationId: ListManagedRadius
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-managed-radius
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /managed-radius
method: post
operationId: PostManagedRadius
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-managed-radius
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /managed-radius/{managedRadiusID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteManagedRadius
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-managed-radius
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /managed-radius/{managedRadiusID}
method: get
operationId: GetManagedRadius
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-managed-radius
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /managed-radius/{managedRadiusID}
method: put
operationId: PutManagedRadius
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-managed-radius
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /platforms
method: get
operationId: GetPlatforms
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-platforms
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /platforms/{platformSlug}
method: put
operationId: PutPlatform
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-platform
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/browser
method: get
operationId: ListBrowser
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-browser
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /protect/browser
method: post
operationId: PostBrowser
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-browser
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/browser/{browserID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteBrowser
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-browser
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/browser/{browserID}
method: get
operationId: GetBrowser
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-browser
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /protect/browser/{browserID}
method: put
operationId: PutBrowser
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-browser
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/ethernet
method: get
operationId: ListEthernet
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-ethernet
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /protect/ethernet
method: post
operationId: PostEthernet
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-ethernet
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/ethernet/{ethernetID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteEthernet
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-ethernet
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/ethernet/{ethernetID}
method: get
operationId: GetEthernet
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-ethernet
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /protect/ethernet/{ethernetID}
method: put
operationId: PutEthernet
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-ethernet
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/vpn
method: get
operationId: ListVpn
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-vpn
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /protect/vpn
method: post
operationId: PostVpn
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-vpn
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/vpn/{vpnID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteVpn
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-vpn
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/vpn/{vpnID}
method: get
operationId: GetVpn
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-vpn
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /protect/vpn/{vpnID}
method: put
operationId: PutVpn
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-vpn
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/wifi
method: get
operationId: ListWifi
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-wifi
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /protect/wifi
method: post
operationId: PostWifi
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-wifi
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/wifi/{wifiID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteWifi
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-wifi
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /protect/wifi/{wifiID}
method: get
operationId: GetWifi
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-wifi
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /protect/wifi/{wifiID}
method: put
operationId: PutWifi
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-wifi
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /sso
method: delete
operationId: DeleteIdentityProvider
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-identity-provider
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /sso
method: get
operationId: GetIdentityProvider
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-identity-provider
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /sso
method: put
operationId: PutIdentityProvider
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-identity-provider
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /sso/clients
method: get
operationId: ListIdpClients
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- list-idp-clients
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /sso/clients
method: post
operationId: PostIdpClients
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- post-idp-clients
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /sso/clients/{idpClientID}
method: delete
operationId: DeleteIdpClient
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- delete-idp-client
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /sso/clients/{idpClientID}
method: get
operationId: GetIdpClient
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
scope:
- get-idp-client
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /sso/clients/{idpClientID}
method: put
operationId: PutIdpClient
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
scope:
- put-idp-client
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
Work with this as data
Every access contract here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP. Agentic Access is not yet its own endpoint on the v1 API. Reach it through catalog search and the tag graph, or the MCP server.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
Tools for agentic access
3 MCP tools reach this
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/search?q=smallstep-agentic-access&limit=10"
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/smallstep-agentic-access"
Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.