Temporal · Agentic Access

Temporal Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

Temporal exposes 17 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 7 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: 10 read, 5 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.

Durable ExecutionWorkflow OrchestrationgRPCWorkflowsOpen SourceTemporal Cloud
Operations: 17 Acting: 7 Human-in-the-loop: 2 Method: generated

By consequence

read 10 write 5 safety-critical 2

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.

MethodPathConsequenceHuman-in-loop
POST /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{workflow_execution.workflow_id}/reset safety-critical required
POST /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{workflow_execution.workflow_id}/terminate safety-critical required

Source

Agentic Access

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/temporal-io-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: 17
  by_action_class:
    acting: 7
    connected: 10
  by_consequence:
    write: 5
    read: 10
    safety-critical: 2
  human_in_the_loop_required: 2
operations:
- path: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{workflow_id}
  method: post
  operationId: startWorkflowExecution
  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: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{execution.workflow_id}
  method: get
  operationId: describeWorkflowExecution
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows
  method: get
  operationId: listWorkflowExecutions
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflow-count
  method: get
  operationId: countWorkflowExecutions
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /namespaces/{namespace}/archived-workflows
  method: get
  operationId: listArchivedWorkflowExecutions
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{execution.workflow_id}/history
  method: get
  operationId: getWorkflowExecutionHistory
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{execution.workflow_id}/history-reverse
  method: get
  operationId: getWorkflowExecutionHistoryReverse
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{workflow_execution.workflow_id}/signal/{signal_name}
  method: post
  operationId: signalWorkflowExecution
  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: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{execution.workflow_id}/query/{query.query_type}
  method: post
  operationId: queryWorkflow
  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: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{workflow_execution.workflow_id}/update/{name}
  method: post
  operationId: updateWorkflowExecution
  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: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{workflow_execution.workflow_id}/cancel
  method: post
  operationId: requestCancelWorkflowExecution
  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: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{workflow_execution.workflow_id}/terminate
  method: post
  operationId: terminateWorkflowExecution
  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: /namespaces/{namespace}/workflows/{workflow_execution.workflow_id}/reset
  method: post
  operationId: resetWorkflowExecution
  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: /namespaces/{namespace}
  method: get
  operationId: describeNamespace
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /namespaces
  method: get
  operationId: listNamespaces
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /cluster-info
  method: get
  operationId: getClusterInfo
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /system-info
  method: get
  operationId: getSystemInfo
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none