kapa.ai Chat API

openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: kapa.ai Query Analytics Chat API
  description: REST API for the kapa.ai answer platform. Ask a project's kapa.ai instance questions and receive retrieval-augmented answers with sources, run threaded multi-turn conversations (standard and streamed), perform semantic retrieval and keyword search against ingested knowledge sources, submit feedback, and read project, integration, source, and analytics data. All requests are authenticated with an X-API-KEY header.
  termsOfService: https://www.kapa.ai/content/terms-of-service
  contact:
    name: kapa.ai Support
    url: https://docs.kapa.ai
  version: '1.0'
servers:
- url: https://api.kapa.ai
  description: kapa.ai production API
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Chat
  description: Ask questions and create threads.
paths:
  /query/v1/projects/{project_id}/chat:
    post:
      operationId: chat
      tags:
      - Chat
      summary: Chat
      description: Ask the project's kapa.ai instance a question. Creates a new Thread and returns the retrieval-augmented answer with relevant sources.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ProjectId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /query/v1/projects/{project_id}/chat/stream:
    post:
      operationId: chatStream
      tags:
      - Chat
      summary: Chat streamed
      description: Streamed variant of chat. The answer is delivered incrementally as chunks delimited by the Unicode record separator character (U+241E), so partial answers can be rendered as they are generated.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ProjectId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A stream of answer chunks delimited by U+241E.
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /query/v1/projects/{project_id}/chat/custom:
    post:
      operationId: chatCustom
      tags:
      - Chat
      summary: Custom chat
      description: Chat using caller-supplied context instead of (or in addition to) the project's ingested knowledge sources.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ProjectId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomChatRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  parameters:
    ProjectId:
      name: project_id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The kapa.ai project (instance) identifier.
      schema:
        type: string
        format: uuid
  schemas:
    User:
      type: object
      properties:
        email:
          type: string
          format: email
          description: End-user email for per-user analytics tracking.
        unique_client_id:
          type: string
          description: Stable client identifier for the end user.
    ChatResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        answer:
          type: string
          description: The generated answer to the query.
        thread_id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: Identifier of the Thread; use it to ask follow-up questions.
        question_answer_id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: Identifier of this question/answer; used when submitting feedback.
        is_uncertain:
          type: boolean
          description: True when kapa.ai is uncertain about the answer.
        relevant_sources:
          type: array
          description: Sources used to construct the answer.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/RelevantSource'
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
    RelevantSource:
      type: object
      properties:
        source_url:
          type: string
          format: uri
        title:
          type: string
        content:
          type: string
    ChatRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - query
      properties:
        query:
          type: string
          description: The user's question.
          example: How do I get started?
        integration_id:
          type: string
          description: Integration identifier used to attribute usage analytics; calls without it appear as the "Unknown" integration.
        user:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
    CustomChatRequest:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatRequest'
      - type: object
        properties:
          context:
            type: string
            description: Caller-supplied context to ground the answer.
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid X-API-KEY.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-KEY
      description: kapa.ai project API key, created in the API Keys tab of the platform.