Vast.ai Agentic Access
Vast.ai exposes 89 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 64 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: 25 read, 61 write, 1 physical, 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUT | /api/v0/commands/reset_apikey/ | safety-critical | required |
| PUT | /api/v0/instances/reboot/{id}/ | safety-critical | required |
| PUT | /api/v0/commands/transfer_credit/ | physical | conditional |
Source
Agentic Access
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/vast-ai-openapi.json
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: 89
by_action_class:
acting: 64
connected: 25
by_consequence:
write: 61
read: 25
safety-critical: 2
physical: 1
human_in_the_loop_required: 2
operations:
- path: /api/v0/network_disk/
method: post
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: /api/v0/instances/{id}/ssh/
method: post
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: /api/v0/commands/copy_direct/
method: delete
operationId: cancelRemoteRsync
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: /api/v0/commands/copy_direct/
method: put
operationId: initiateRemoteRsync
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: /api/v0/machines/{machine_id}/cancel_maint
method: put
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: /api/v0/commands/rclone/
method: delete
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: /api/v0/commands/rclone/
method: post
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: /api/v0/instances/bid_price/{id}/
method: put
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: /api/v0/machines/{machine_id}/cleanup
method: put
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: /api/v0/auth/apikeys/
method: post
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: /api/v0/auth/apikeys/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/workergroups/
method: post
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: /api/v0/workergroups/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/endptjobs/
method: post
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: /api/v0/endptjobs/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/secrets/
method: post
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: /api/v0/secrets/
method: delete
operationId: deleteUserSecret
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: /api/v0/secrets/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/secrets/
method: put
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: /api/v0/asks/{id}/
method: put
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: /api/v0/network_volume/
method: put
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: /api/v0/network_volume/
method: post
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: /api/v0/ssh/
method: post
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: /api/v0/ssh/
method: get
operationId: getSshKeysUser
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/users/
method: post
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: /api/v0/users/
method: put
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: /api/v0/team
method: post
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: /api/v0/team/role
method: post
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: /api/v0/template/
method: post
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: /api/v0/template/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/auth/apikeys/{id}/
method: delete
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: /api/v0/auth/apikeys/{id}/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/workergroups/{id}/
method: delete
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: /api/v0/workergroups/{id}/
method: put
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: /api/v0/endptjobs/{id}/
method: delete
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: /api/v0/endptjobs/{id}/
method: put
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: /api/v0/ssh/{id}/
method: delete
operationId: deleteSshKey
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: /api/v0/ssh/{id}/
method: put
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: /api/v0/volumes
method: delete
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: /api/v0/instances/{id}/
method: delete
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: /api/v0/instances/{id}/
method: put
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: /api/v0/instances/{id}/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/team/
method: delete
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: /api/v0/instances/{id}/ssh/{key}/
method: delete
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: /api/v0/instances/command/{id}/
method: put
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: /get_workergroup_logs/
method: post
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: /get_workergroup_workers/
method: post
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: /get_endpoint_logs/
method: post
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: /get_endpoint_workers/
method: post
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: /api/v0/team/invite/
method: post
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: /api/v0/machines/create_asks/
method: put
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: /api/v0/instances/request_logs/{id}
method: put
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: /api/v0/instances/prepay/{id}/
method: put
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: /api/v0/instances/reboot/{id}/
method: put
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: /api/v0/instances/recycle/{id}/
method: put
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: /api/v0/machines/{machine_id}/defjob
method: delete
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: /api/v0/team/members/{id}
method: delete
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: /api/v0/team/roles/{id}
method: delete
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: /api/v0/volumes/
method: put
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: /api/v0/volumes/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/machines/{machine_id}/reports
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/commands/reset_apikey/
method: put
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: /route/
method: post
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: /api/v0/machines/{machine_id}/dnotify
method: put
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: /api/v0/benchmarks/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/invoices
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/network_volumes/search/
method: post
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: /api/v0/search/asks/
method: put
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: /api/v0/volumes/search/
method: post
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: /api/v0/machines/create_bids/
method: put
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: /api/v0/machines/{machine_id}/minbid
method: put
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: /api/v0/users/cloud_integrations/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/instances/balance/{id}/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/users/{user_id}/machine-earnings/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/instances/{instance_id}/ssh/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/instances/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/users/{user_id}/invoices/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/users/{user_id}/ipaddrs/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/machines/
method: get
operationId: getMachines
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/subaccounts/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
token:
max-ttl: 3600
audit: none
- path: /api/v0/team/members/
method: get
x-agentic-access:
action-class: connected
consequence: read
subject: optional
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