assistants

Get an assistant

One assistant and its settings. A deleted assistant, an unshared assistant from another workspace, and an unknown id all answer the same 404 resource_not_found so ids cannot be enumerated.

GET/v1/assistants/{assistant_id}

Request

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.lookio.app/v1/assistants/<assistant_id>' \
  --header 'Authorization: <api-key>'

import json
import requests

url = "https://api.lookio.app/v1/assistants/<assistant_id>"
headers = {
  "Authorization": "<api-key>"
}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch("https://api.lookio.app/v1/assistants/<assistant_id>", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "<api-key>"
  },
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

<?php
$client = curl_init();

curl_setopt($client, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.lookio.app/v1/assistants/<assistant_id>");
curl_setopt($client, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($client, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "Authorization: <api-key>",
]);
curl_setopt($client, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($client);
curl_close($client);
echo $response;

package main

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

func main() {
  req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.lookio.app/v1/assistants/<assistant_id>", nil)
  req.Header.Set("Authorization", "<api-key>")
  res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
  defer res.Body.Close()
  data, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
  fmt.Println(string(data))
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.lookio.app/v1/assistants/<assistant_id>"))
    .header("Authorization", "<api-key>")
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();

var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(
    request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI("https://api.lookio.app/v1/assistants/<assistant_id>")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request["Authorization"] = "<api-key>"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") do |http|
  http.request(request)
end

puts response.body

application/json

{
  "data": {
    "id": "ast_66xcnwtzj8vt",
    "name": "Support",
    "context": "You are the support assistant of Acme. You answer customers who want a quick, accurate reply.",
    "output_guidelines": "Short answers, in the language of the question.",
    "resource_ids": [
      "res_thk6smb5nvts"
    ],
    "follow_tags": [],
    "knowledge": "selected",
    "created_at": "2026-10-12T09:30:00.000Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-12T09:30:00.000Z"
  },
  "request_id": "req_01K9X7M2Q4"
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "<string>",
    "code": "<string>",
    "message": "<string>",
    "param": "<string>",
    "docs_url": "<string>",
    "action_url": "<string>"
  },
  "request_id": "<string>"
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "<string>",
    "code": "<string>",
    "message": "<string>",
    "param": "<string>",
    "docs_url": "<string>",
    "action_url": "<string>"
  },
  "request_id": "<string>"
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "<string>",
    "code": "<string>",
    "message": "<string>",
    "param": "<string>",
    "docs_url": "<string>",
    "action_url": "<string>"
  },
  "request_id": "<string>"
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "<string>",
    "code": "<string>",
    "message": "<string>",
    "param": "<string>",
    "docs_url": "<string>",
    "action_url": "<string>"
  },
  "request_id": "<string>"
}

{
  "error": {
    "type": "<string>",
    "code": "<string>",
    "message": "<string>",
    "param": "<string>",
    "docs_url": "<string>",
    "action_url": "<string>"
  },
  "request_id": "<string>"
}

Requires assistants:read.

An assistant the credential may not use answers resource_not_found, the same as one that does not exist.

Authorizations

Authorizationbearerin headerrequired

Path parameters

assistant_idstringrequiredpattern: ^ast_[abcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz23456789]{12}$

Response

application/json

Retrieve an assistant

dataobjectrequired

Show child attributes

data.idstringrequiredpattern: ^ast_[abcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz23456789]{12}$

data.namestringrequired

data.contextstringrequired

data.output_guidelinesstringrequired

data.resource_idsstring[]required

Empty when this caller may not see the resource catalogue.

data.follow_tagsstring[]required

data.knowledgeenum<string>requiredone of: all, selected, tags

What the assistant reads: all is every resource of the workspace, now and later; selected is only resource_ids; tags is every resource carrying a tag in follow_tags, now or later. One mode at a time; the lists of the other modes are kept.

data.created_atstringrequired

data.updated_atstringrequired

request_idstringrequired

{ "data": { "id": "ast_66xcnwtzj8vt", "name": "Support", "context": "You are the support assistant of Acme. You answer customers who want a quick, accurate reply.", "output_guidelines": "Short answers, in the language of the question.", "resource_ids": [ "res_thk6smb5nvts" ], "follow_tags": [], "knowledge": "selected", "created_at": "2026-10-12T09:30:00.000Z", "updated_at": "2026-10-12T09:30:00.000Z" }, "request_id": "req_01K9X7M2Q4" }

{ "error": { "type": "<string>", "code": "<string>", "message": "<string>", "param": "<string>", "docs_url": "<string>", "action_url": "<string>" }, "request_id": "<string>" }

Get an assistant

Authorizations

Path parameters

Response

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