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Safety

Alerts

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Retrieve a safety alert

$ openai safety:alerts retrieve

GET/safety/alerts/{id}

Get a safety alert belonging to the authenticated API project.

ParametersExpand Collapse

--id: string

Project safety alert ID

ReturnsExpand Collapse

safety_alert: object { id, created_at, error_type, 6 more }

id: string

created_at: number

error_type: "potentially_unintended_data_transfer" or "potentially_unintended_data_access" or "potentially_unintended_destructive_activity" or "other"

model: string

object: "safety.alert"

reason: string

A customer-safe description derived from error_type, or null for zero data retention requests.

request_id: string

request_paused: boolean

Whether block registration succeeded for this request. This does not confirm that response execution stopped.

response_id: string

Retrieve a safety alert

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CLI Tool

openai safety:alerts retrieve \
  --api-key 'My API Key' \
  --id id

{
  "id": "alert_0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
  "object": "safety.alert",
  "created_at": 1787659200,
  "request_id": "req_123",
  "response_id": "resp_123",
  "model": "gpt-6-astra",
  "request_paused": true,
  "error_type": "potentially_unintended_data_access",
  "reason": "Potentially unintended data access."
}

Returns Examples

{
  "id": "alert_0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
  "object": "safety.alert",
  "created_at": 1787659200,
  "request_id": "req_123",
  "response_id": "resp_123",
  "model": "gpt-6-astra",
  "request_paused": true,
  "error_type": "potentially_unintended_data_access",
  "reason": "Potentially unintended data access."
}