API Reference

Conversations

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Items

Manage conversations and conversation items.

Create items

$ openai conversations:items create

POST/conversations/{conversation_id}/items

Delete an item

$ openai conversations:items delete

DELETE/conversations/{conversation_id}/items/{item_id}

List items

$ openai conversations:items list

GET/conversations/{conversation_id}/items

Retrieve an item

$ openai conversations:items retrieve

GET/conversations/{conversation_id}/items/{item_id}

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conversation_item: Message { id, content, role, 3 more } or ResponseFunctionToolCallItem { id, status, created_by } or ResponseFunctionToolCallOutputItem { id, output, status, 6 more } or 25 more

A single item within a conversation. The set of possible types are the same as the output type of a Response object.

conversation_item_list: object { data, first_id, has_more, 2 more }

A list of Conversation items.