Space Frontiers Conversations API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Machine Library Conversations API
  description: 'Search, retrieve, and synthesize scholarly and public-interest documents through Machine Library, the search and AI product by Space Frontiers Company. Document recognition endpoints (`/v1/recognitions`: PDF, EPUB, and DJVU to structured Markdown) share this host and are described at `/v1/recognitions/docs/openapi.json`; the site reference at https://machinelibrary.ai/docs/api/reference presents both specs merged.'
  license:
    name: MIT
    identifier: MIT
  version: 0.1.0
servers:
- url: https://api.machinelibrary.ai
  description: Machine Library
- url: https://api.spacefrontiers.org
  description: Space Frontiers (compatible endpoint)
tags:
- name: Conversations
  description: Retrieval-augmented conversation workflows.
paths:
  /v2/conversations/:
    get:
      tags:
      - Conversations
      summary: List conversations owned by the authenticated user
      operationId: listConversations
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Conversation summaries.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ListConversationsResponse'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API credential.
      security:
      - api_key: []
      - bearer_auth: []
    post:
      tags:
      - Conversations
      summary: Run a retrieval-augmented conversation turn
      operationId: createConversationTurn
      requestBody:
        description: Conversation query and model configuration.
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConversationRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Completed assistant response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConversationResponse'
        '400':
          description: Invalid request.
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API credential.
        '402':
          description: Insufficient account balance.
      security:
      - api_key: []
      - bearer_auth: []
  /v2/conversations/stream:
    post:
      tags:
      - Conversations
      summary: Run a conversation turn and stream newline-delimited progress events
      operationId: streamConversationTurn
      requestBody:
        description: Conversation query and model configuration.
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConversationRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Newline-delimited progress and result events.
          content:
            text/event-stream:
              schema:
                type: string
        '400':
          description: Invalid request.
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API credential.
        '402':
          description: Insufficient account balance.
      security:
      - api_key: []
      - bearer_auth: []
  /v2/conversations/{slug}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Conversations
      summary: Fetch a conversation and all recorded request/response steps
      operationId: getConversation
      parameters:
      - name: slug
        in: path
        description: Conversation slug or UUID.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Complete conversation.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/FullConversation'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API credential.
        '404':
          description: Conversation not found.
      security:
      - api_key: []
      - bearer_auth: []
    delete:
      tags:
      - Conversations
      summary: Delete a conversation owned by the authenticated user
      operationId: deleteConversation
      parameters:
      - name: slug
        in: path
        description: Conversation slug or UUID.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Conversation deleted.
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API credential.
        '404':
          description: Conversation not found.
      security:
      - api_key: []
      - bearer_auth: []
  /v2/conversations/{conversation_id_or_slug}/edit-step/{step_id}:
    put:
      tags:
      - Conversations
      summary: Replace a request step and recompute the conversation from that point
      operationId: editConversationStep
      parameters:
      - name: conversation_id_or_slug
        in: path
        description: Conversation slug or UUID.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: step_id
        in: path
        description: Recorded request step position.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/EditStepRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Recomputed complete conversation.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/FullConversation'
        '400':
          description: Invalid replacement query.
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API credential.
        '402':
          description: Insufficient account balance.
        '404':
          description: Conversation or request step not found.
      security:
      - api_key: []
      - bearer_auth: []
  /v2/conversations/{conversation_id_or_slug}/edit-step/{step_id}/stream:
    put:
      tags:
      - Conversations
      summary: Replace a request step and stream the recomputation as newline-delimited events
      operationId: streamEditedConversationStep
      parameters:
      - name: conversation_id_or_slug
        in: path
        description: Conversation slug or UUID.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: step_id
        in: path
        description: Recorded request step ID.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/EditStepRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Newline-delimited progress and result events.
          content:
            text/event-stream:
              schema:
                type: string
        '400':
          description: Invalid replacement query.
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API credential.
        '402':
          description: Insufficient account balance.
        '404':
          description: Conversation or request step not found.
      security:
      - api_key: []
      - bearer_auth: []
components:
  schemas:
    ConversationStep:
      oneOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConversationRequest'
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConversationResponse'
      description: 'Discriminated on `kind`: "request" | "response".'
    ConversationMetadata:
      type: object
      required:
      - id
      - created_at
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        title:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        slug:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        query:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        user_id:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          format: int64
        preview:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
    CitationOccurrence:
      type: object
      required:
      - citation_index
      - document_index
      - excerpt
      properties:
        citation_index:
          type: integer
          description: Zero-based position among citation markers in the answer.
          minimum: 0
        document_index:
          type: integer
          description: One-based index into `ConversationResponse.search_documents`.
          minimum: 0
        snippet_index:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          description: Zero-based index into the selected document's snippets.
          minimum: 0
        excerpt:
          type: string
          description: Claim-specific excerpt suitable for citation previews.
    Snippet:
      type: object
      description: One highlighted passage of a search hit.
      required:
      - field
      - text
      properties:
        field:
          type: string
        text:
          type: string
        score:
          type: number
          format: double
        chunk_id:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          format: int64
        evidence:
          oneOf:
          - type: 'null'
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/SnippetEvidence'
    SnippetEvidence:
      type: object
      description: A reranker-selected, verbatim window within the original snippet.
      required:
      - text
      - start_char
      - score
      properties:
        text:
          type: string
        start_char:
          type: integer
          description: Unicode scalar values, relative to the full `Snippet.text`.
          minimum: 0
        score:
          type: number
          format: double
    EditStepRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - new_query
      properties:
        new_query:
          type: string
          description: Replacement query for the selected request step.
    SearchDocument:
      type: object
      description: 'One search hit: the stored document plus its snippets and score.'
      required:
      - source
      - document
      properties:
        source:
          type: string
        document: {}
        snippets:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Snippet'
        score:
          type: number
          format: double
    ListConversationsResponse:
      type: object
      required:
      - conversations
      properties:
        conversations:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConversationMetadata'
    Query:
      type: object
      description: Classifier state object (spacefrontiers `Query`).
      properties:
        original_query:
          type: string
        reformulated_query:
          type: string
        keywords:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        filters: {}
        is_recent:
          type: boolean
        is_event:
          type: boolean
        date:
          type:
          - array
          - 'null'
          items: false
          prefixItems:
          - type: string
            format: date-time
          - type: string
            format: date-time
          description: (start, end) as RFC3339 datetimes in JSON.
        date_expression:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: 'Unresolved classifier expression; cached instead of absolute timestamps

            so relative ranges are evaluated at request time.'
        content_type:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        related_queries:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        query_language:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        instruction:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        knowledge_source:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        classified_aspects:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        title:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
    ConversationResponse:
      type: object
      required:
      - conversation_id
      - answer
      properties:
        query_details:
          oneOf:
          - type: 'null'
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryDetails'
            description: Persisted search-stage snapshot, captured only for entitled planning.
        trajectory:
          oneOf:
          - type: 'null'
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchTrajectory'
        id:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          format: int64
        conversation_id:
          type: string
        answer:
          type: string
        search_documents:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchDocument'
        citations:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/CitationOccurrence'
          description: 'Ordered metadata for every inline citation marker, including repeated

            citations to different passages of the same document.'
        query:
          oneOf:
          - type: 'null'
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Query'
        model_name:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        kind:
          type: string
    SearchTrajectory:
      type: object
      required:
      - id
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        feedback_token:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: A bounded, expiring capability to rate results of this retrieval.
    ConversationRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - query
      - llm_config
      properties:
        id:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          format: int64
        conversation_id:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        document_ids:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: 'Exact Nexus documents to merge into retrieval regardless of the query

            classifier. `default` keeps historical persisted steps compatible.'
        query:
          type: string
        llm_config:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/LlmConfig'
        sources_filters: {}
        sources_literal_filters: {}
        resolved_sources_literal_filters: {}
        limit:
          type: integer
          format: int32
          minimum: 0
        max_model_documents:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          format: int32
          description: 'Cap on documents sent to the model after reranking and budget

            stripping (pinned documents keep priority). Experimentation knob for

            quality/cost sweeps; absent or zero means no cap.'
          minimum: 0
        kind:
          type: string
    LlmConfig:
      type: object
      required:
      - model_name
      properties:
        model_name:
          type: string
        api_key:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        max_context_length:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          minimum: 0
    FullConversation:
      type: object
      required:
      - conversation_metadata
      - conversation_steps
      properties:
        conversation_metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConversationMetadata'
        conversation_steps:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConversationStep'
    QueryDetails:
      type: object
      properties:
        query:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        queries:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        incomplete_queries:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        retrieved:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          minimum: 0
        compared:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          minimum: 0
        selected:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          minimum: 0
        planning_fallback:
          type: boolean
        ranking_fallback:
          type: boolean
  securitySchemes:
    api_key:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Api-Key
      description: Machine Library API key from https://machinelibrary.ai/keys.
    bearer_auth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API key or OAuth 2.0 access token
      description: Send the same API key, or an OAuth 2.0 access token, as a Bearer token.
x-service-info:
  categories:
  - data
  - search
  docs:
    apiReference: https://machinelibrary.ai/docs/api/reference
    homepage: https://machinelibrary.ai
    llms: https://machinelibrary.ai/llms.txt