Vanta Agentic Access
Vanta exposes 37 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 11 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: 26 read, 10 write, 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 | /audits/{auditId}/controls/custom-controls | safety-critical | required |
Source
Agentic Access
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/vanta-auditor-openapi.yml, openapi/vanta-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: 26
acting: 11
by_consequence:
read: 26
write: 10
safety-critical: 1
human_in_the_loop_required: 1
operations:
- path: /audits
method: get
operationId: ListAudits
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/vendors
method: get
operationId: ListVendorsInAuditScope
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/monitored-computers
method: get
operationId: ListMonitoredComputersInAuditScope
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/evidence/{auditEvidenceId}/urls
method: get
operationId: ListAuditEvidenceUrls
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/people
method: get
operationId: ListPeopleInAuditScope
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/vulnerability-remediations
method: get
operationId: ListVulnerabilityRemediationsInAuditScope
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/evidence
method: get
operationId: ListAuditEvidence
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/comments
method: get
operationId: ListAuditComments
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/controls
method: get
operationId: ListAuditControls
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/evidence/{auditEvidenceId}/comments
method: post
operationId: CreateCommentForAuditEvidence
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: /audits/{auditId}/evidence/{auditEvidenceId}
method: patch
operationId: UpdateAuditEvidence
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: /audits/{auditId}/evidence/custom-evidence-requests
method: post
operationId: CreateCustomEvidenceRequest
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: /audits/{auditId}/controls/custom-controls
method: post
operationId: CreateCustomControl
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: /audits/{auditId}/vulnerabilities
method: get
operationId: ListVulnerabilities
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /audits/{auditId}/vulnerable-assets
method: get
operationId: GetVulnerableAssets
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /auditors
method: post
operationId: CreateAuditor
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: /oauth/token
method: post
operationId: getAccessToken
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: /v1/users
method: get
operationId: listUsers
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/people
method: get
operationId: listPeople
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/vulnerabilities
method: get
operationId: listVulnerabilities
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/resources/api_endpoint_vulnerability_connectors
method: get
operationId: listApiEndpointVulnerabilities
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/resources/api_endpoint_vulnerability_connectors
method: put
operationId: syncApiEndpointVulnerabilities
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: /v1/resources/package_vulnerability_connectors
method: get
operationId: listPackageVulnerabilities
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/resources/vulnerable_component
method: get
operationId: listVulnerableComponents
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/controls
method: get
operationId: listControls
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/frameworks
method: get
operationId: listFrameworks
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/tests
method: get
operationId: listTests
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/documents
method: get
operationId: listDocuments
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/documents
method: post
operationId: uploadDocument
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: /v1/vendors
method: get
operationId: listVendors
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/vendors
method: post
operationId: createVendor
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: /v1/vendors/{vendorId}
method: get
operationId: getVendor
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/vendors/{vendorId}
method: patch
operationId: updateVendor
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: /v1/resources
method: get
operationId: listResources
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/computers
method: get
operationId: listComputers
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/integrations
method: get
operationId: listIntegrations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /v1/resources/custom
method: post
operationId: createCustomResource
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