Sap API Policy

SAP API Policy — Evidence Assessment

Assess whether an SAP API usage scenario appears aligned with the SAP API Policy v.4.2026a (and its FAQ v1.2, May 2026) by gathering evidence from official SAP sources and the user's own facts, then producing a conservative, sourced technical assessment.

When to Use

Use this skill for a single SAP interface assessment, an architecture decision involving SAP APIs, or a batch inventory that needs evidence-based policy triage. Route purely legal, contractual, commercial, or roadmap questions to the appropriate SAP or customer owner.

Quick Start

1. Capture the product, deployment, interface, consumer, data direction, volume, and intended use.
2. Gather current official evidence for publication status, documented use, and applicable controls.
3. Apply the workflow below and record evidence separately from inference.
4. Return one assessment category, one confidence level, residual risks, and concrete SAP questions.

The one rule that defines this skill

Never present the result as legal advice, contractual advice, or a final/definitive SAP compliance decision. Only SAP, the applicable contract, or SAP support/account/legal channels can give a binding answer for a specific customer landscape. This is not a hedge you can drop to sound more helpful — SAP itself declines to publish a binary "compliant / not compliant" decision matrix (FAQ Q49), so a confident yes/no would misrepresent what is knowable. Your job is to get as close as possible with evidence and documentation, label your confidence honestly, and hand off the residual uncertainty as concrete questions for SAP.

Put the disclaimer at the top and bottom of every report (see references/report-template.md).

Out of scope — route to SAP, don't opine

Some requests are not evidence-based technical-alignment questions, and you must not answer them as if they were. When a question turns on any of the following, say plainly that it is outside this assessment and route it to the right SAP channel — do not guess:

• Legal / contractual: whether the policy is binding, how it enters existing/perpetual contracts, retroactivity, whether an API Hub listing is contractually authoritative, antitrust/competition-law questions → SAP Legal / contract owner / account team.
• Commercial / licensing: prices, SKUs, edition gating (e.g. Integration Suite tiers), Digital Access impact, service-supplement termination risk, connector licensing → SAP account team.
• Roadmap / GA timing: when A2A / Agent Gateway / MCP Gateway / Joule-on-prem ship → SAP Road Map Explorer as planning only, never current permission.
• SAP-internal process: who at SAP "approves" an API, enforcement/throttling decisions.

For a mixed question, answer the technical half normally (Assessment + Confidence) and wall off the legal/commercial/roadmap half with a one-line referral. Don't let a legal framing suppress a technical finding, and don't let a technical question drift into a legal or commercial opinion.

Workflow

Work through these steps. Read the linked reference file when you reach that step — don't preload everything.

1. Frame the scenario. Extract every fact the user gave into a fact table (product, deployment, version, interface/endpoint, consumer/tool, data direction, usage pattern, AI/automation flags, existing evidence). Infer what you safely can and label it as an assumption.

2. Triage missing facts before asking anything. Classify each missing fact as blocker, important, optional, or discoverable (try tools first). Ask at most one short round of blocker questions; otherwise proceed at lower confidence and say so. The full triage logic, scenario-specific question sets, and the "never ask for secrets" rule are in references/evidence-model.md.

3. Classify the scenario into one or more categories — Published-API/Documented-Use, ABAP object / custom wrapper / Clean Core, AI / agentic / MCP, bulk extraction / replication, outbound event/callback, unsupported/internal interface, partner-certified solution, RISE remediation. Each has its own analysis path and red flags in references/policy-baseline.md.

4. Check which tools are actually available right now, then gather evidence. Do a runtime self-check (don't assume) and gather evidence in priority order from official sources. Exact per-server tool calls, the scenario→tool decision tree, and how to handle authenticated-source failures are in references/tool-playbooks.md.

5. Apply the policy controls. For every interface, verify Published-API/Documented-Use status; then check Specific Controls (rate limits, quotas, deprecation, ingress/egress, bulk preconditions, security) and General Controls (competitive analysis, out-of-scope use, system-risk, agentic AI, large-scale extraction). Details and the named endorsed pathways to recommend as alternatives are in references/policy-baseline.md.

6. Build the evidence ledger and assess. Record every source with an authority level and timestamp. Pick an assessment category and a confidence level using the rubric in references/evidence-model.md. Separate evidence from inference — never invent certainty to fill a gap.

7. Write the report using references/report-template.md. Include residual risk, the missing facts that would most improve confidence, and specific questions to raise with SAP.

Inventory / scan mode

When the user doesn't ask about one scenario but wants "which of these APIs/interfaces are allowed?", hands you a list of objects/services, or asks to scan/triage a landscape (a very common ask — there is no SAP-published master list of permitted APIs), switch to the batch workflow in references/inventory-scan-mode.md: resolve each interface's released/published/prohibited status via released-object and API Hub tools, return one timestamped table plus a portfolio verdict, and flag the rows that still need a full per-scenario assessment. Present it as evidence-as-of-date, not an SAP-sanctioned allowlist.