U.S. Geological Survey · Agentic Access

U.S. Geological Survey Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

U.S. Geological Survey exposes 11 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 0 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: 11 read.

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Federal GovernmentGeologicalEarth ScienceNatural ResourcesEarthquakeWaterHydrology
Operations: 11 Acting: 0 Human-in-the-loop: 0 Method: generated

By consequence

read 11

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Agentic Access

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generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/usgs-earthquake-api-openapi.yaml, openapi/usgs-water-data-api-openapi.yaml
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: 11
  by_action_class:
    connected: 11
  by_consequence:
    read: 11
  human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /query
  method: get
  operationId: queryEarthquakes
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /count
  method: get
  operationId: countEarthquakes
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /catalogs
  method: get
  operationId: listCatalogs
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /contributors
  method: get
  operationId: listContributors
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /version
  method: get
  operationId: getVersion
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /
  method: get
  operationId: getLandingPage
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /collections
  method: get
  operationId: listCollections
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /collections/monitoring-locations/items
  method: get
  operationId: getMonitoringLocations
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /collections/monitoring-locations/items/{featureId}
  method: get
  operationId: getMonitoringLocation
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /collections/time-series/items
  method: get
  operationId: getTimeSeries
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /collections/agency-codes/items
  method: get
  operationId: getAgencyCodes
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none