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POST
/
v1
/
sessions
/
init
Start a new chat session and open documents into it in one call.
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.example.com/v1/sessions/init \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "document_ids": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "session_id": "<string>"
}
'
import requests

url = "https://api.example.com/v1/sessions/init"

payload = {
    "document_ids": ["<string>"],
    "session_id": "<string>"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({document_ids: ['<string>'], session_id: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://api.example.com/v1/sessions/init', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.example.com/v1/sessions/init",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'document_ids' => [
        '<string>'
    ],
    'session_id' => '<string>'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.example.com/v1/sessions/init"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"document_ids\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ],\n  \"session_id\": \"<string>\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.example.com/v1/sessions/init")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"document_ids\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ],\n  \"session_id\": \"<string>\"\n}")
  .asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.example.com/v1/sessions/init")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"document_ids\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ],\n  \"session_id\": \"<string>\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "detail": [
    {
      "loc": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "msg": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Headers

​
authorization
string | null

Query Parameters

​
include_html
boolean
default:false

Include each document's full reassembled HTML body. Default false (token-light — recommended for AI agents enumerating or switching tabs): returns only ids, title, section count, focused flag, and page setup, omitting the body which can be hundreds of KB per document. The web app passes true to render document content.

Body

application/json
​
document_ids
string[] | null

Durable document ids (from GET /v1/documents) to open into the brand-new session. Omit/empty to start an empty session.

​
session_id
string | null

Optional client-chosen session id (the web UI passes its own so its session model stays consistent). Omit and the server mints one — the one-call way for an MCP/API integrator to start a session with documents already open.

Response

Successful Response