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# Agentic Access API

Vend ephemeral roles for your agents to access data on-behalf-of of a user.

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Rather than connecting as a static service account, the agent harness first calls the Immuta agentic access API to obtain an ephemeral role scoped to the end user's entitlements, and this [role is then assumed by the agent when querying the data platform](#user-content-fn-1)[^1]. This process ensures every query executed against the data platform is scoped to exactly what the end user is permitted to access.

Ephemeral roles can be requested from and managed by either the new [agentic access V1 API](/saas/developer-guides/api-intro/agentic-access-api/agentic-access-v1.md) or the deprecated [legacy agentic access API](/saas/developer-guides/api-intro/agentic-access-api/agentic-access-legacy.md).

[^1]: This part of the process differs slightly between Snowflake and Databricks. See the [Connecting the agent to the data platform page](/saas/agentic-data-access/manage-agents/connecting-the-agent-to-the-data-platform.md) for details.


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