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Assistants

List assistants

Deprecated
$ openai beta:assistants list
GET/assistants

Returns a list of assistants.

ParametersExpand Collapse
--after: optional string

A cursor for use in pagination. after is an object ID that defines your place in the list. For instance, if you make a list request and receive 100 objects, ending with obj_foo, your subsequent call can include after=obj_foo in order to fetch the next page of the list.

--before: optional string

A cursor for use in pagination. before is an object ID that defines your place in the list. For instance, if you make a list request and receive 100 objects, starting with obj_foo, your subsequent call can include before=obj_foo in order to fetch the previous page of the list.

--limit: optional number

A limit on the number of objects to be returned. Limit can range between 1 and 100, and the default is 20.

--order: optional "asc" or "desc"

Sort order by the created_at timestamp of the objects. asc for ascending order and desc for descending order.

ReturnsExpand Collapse
ListAssistantsResponse: object { data, first_id, has_more, 2 more }
data: array of Assistant { id, created_at, description, 10 more }
first_id: string
has_more: boolean
last_id: string
object: string

List assistants

openai beta:assistants list \
  --api-key 'My API Key'
{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "asst_abc123",
      "object": "assistant",
      "created_at": 1698982736,
      "name": "Coding Tutor",
      "description": null,
      "model": "gpt-4o",
      "instructions": "You are a helpful assistant designed to make me better at coding!",
      "tools": [],
      "tool_resources": {},
      "metadata": {},
      "top_p": 1.0,
      "temperature": 1.0,
      "response_format": "auto"
    },
    {
      "id": "asst_abc456",
      "object": "assistant",
      "created_at": 1698982718,
      "name": "My Assistant",
      "description": null,
      "model": "gpt-4o",
      "instructions": "You are a helpful assistant designed to make me better at coding!",
      "tools": [],
      "tool_resources": {},
      "metadata": {},
      "top_p": 1.0,
      "temperature": 1.0,
      "response_format": "auto"
    },
    {
      "id": "asst_abc789",
      "object": "assistant",
      "created_at": 1698982643,
      "name": null,
      "description": null,
      "model": "gpt-4o",
      "instructions": null,
      "tools": [],
      "tool_resources": {},
      "metadata": {},
      "top_p": 1.0,
      "temperature": 1.0,
      "response_format": "auto"
    }
  ],
  "first_id": "asst_abc123",
  "last_id": "asst_abc789",
  "has_more": false
}
Returns Examples
{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "asst_abc123",
      "object": "assistant",
      "created_at": 1698982736,
      "name": "Coding Tutor",
      "description": null,
      "model": "gpt-4o",
      "instructions": "You are a helpful assistant designed to make me better at coding!",
      "tools": [],
      "tool_resources": {},
      "metadata": {},
      "top_p": 1.0,
      "temperature": 1.0,
      "response_format": "auto"
    },
    {
      "id": "asst_abc456",
      "object": "assistant",
      "created_at": 1698982718,
      "name": "My Assistant",
      "description": null,
      "model": "gpt-4o",
      "instructions": "You are a helpful assistant designed to make me better at coding!",
      "tools": [],
      "tool_resources": {},
      "metadata": {},
      "top_p": 1.0,
      "temperature": 1.0,
      "response_format": "auto"
    },
    {
      "id": "asst_abc789",
      "object": "assistant",
      "created_at": 1698982643,
      "name": null,
      "description": null,
      "model": "gpt-4o",
      "instructions": null,
      "tools": [],
      "tool_resources": {},
      "metadata": {},
      "top_p": 1.0,
      "temperature": 1.0,
      "response_format": "auto"
    }
  ],
  "first_id": "asst_abc123",
  "last_id": "asst_abc789",
  "has_more": false
}