OpenAI ChatKit API

ChatKit is the best way to build agentic chat experiences. It provides session and thread management for building internal knowledge base assistants, research companions, support agents, and more. ChatKit sessions include resolved feature configuration for automatic thread titling, file upload, and history settings. Threads have statuses including active, locked, and closed.

Operations 6

POST /chatkit/sessions/{session_id}/cancel Cancel an active ChatKit session and return its most recent metadata. #
POST /chatkit/sessions Create a ChatKit session #
GET /chatkit/threads/{thread_id}/items List items that belong to a ChatKit thread #
GET /chatkit/threads/{thread_id} Retrieve a ChatKit thread by its identifier #
DELETE /chatkit/threads/{thread_id} Delete a ChatKit thread along with its items and stored attachments #
GET /chatkit/threads List ChatKit threads with optional pagination and user filters #

Documentation

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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chatkit
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chatkit
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/overview
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/assistants
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/audio
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text
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https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/audio/
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https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/voice-agents/
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/embeddings
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/files
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/fine-tuning
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/images
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/images
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/image-generation
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/images-vision
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/models
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/models
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/how-it-works/managing-threads-and-messages
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/threads
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https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions

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openai-chatkit-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: OpenAI Chatkit API
  description: The OpenAI REST API. Please see https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference for more details.
  version: 2.3.0
  termsOfService: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
  contact:
    name: OpenAI Support
    url: https://help.openai.com/
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://github.com/openai/openai-openapi/blob/master/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://api.openai.com/v1
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:


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