Drive a deployed agent's chat transport directly and read its sessions.
Where /iblai-api-agent-chat wires a hosted MCP server for conversation, this
skill is the raw REST/SSE (and WebSocket) surface: POST a prompt, stream the
reply, attach metadata that resurfaces as client_context, and list/inspect
the resulting session records. Get IBLAI_ORG/IBLAI_USERNAME/IBLAI_API_KEY
from /iblai-api-login.
Auth & conventions
- Header:
Authorization: Api-Token $IBLAI_API_KEYon every request. - Path vars:
{org}=$IBLAI_ORG,{user}=$IBLAI_USERNAME. - Two hosts — chat is streaming/ASGI:
- Chat turn (SSE / WebSocket) →
https://asgi.data.iblai.app - Session reads/writes →
https://api.iblai.app/dm/api/ai-mentor/orgs/{org}/users/{user}/v1… i.e.…/orgs/{org}/users/{user}/sessions/…
- Chat turn (SSE / WebSocket) →
- Not connected yet? Run
/iblai-api-loginfirst.
Concepts
Two independent context fields — one soft, one hard. A chat turn can carry both
metadata (soft) and document_filter (hard); they do different jobs and don't
substitute for each other:
metadata(soft) — steers how the agent reasons. It's appended to the prompt and persisted; it never restricts which documents RAG can retrieve.document_filter(hard) — steers which documents RAG may retrieve. It's a document-level allow-list applied in the vector store; it does not touch the prompt.
Passing metadata alone narrows nothing in retrieval; passing document_filter alone
scopes retrieval without giving the agent any extra prose context. Use both when you want
both effects.
metadata → client_context passthrough (soft). Every chat turn (WS or SSE) may
carry a metadata object of arbitrary key/values (BaseConsumerPayload.metadata). The
runner folds it into the prompt the agent sees, so the agent can tailor its reply, and the
consumer persists it on the session as Session.metadata["client_context"]. It is
session-level: each turn's metadata overwrites the session's client_context, so
it sticks across turns until you send new keys. Use it to tell one deployed agent
where/why a message arrives (product, plan tier, page, region) without editing its
prompt. It then echoes back on every read below. The sibling field page_content is
also appended to the prompt, but — unlike metadata — is stripped before the message is
saved.
document_filter → retrieval scoping (hard). An optional
BaseConsumerPayload.document_filter object ({key: scalar}) restricts RAG retrieval to
documents whose ingested custom_metadata is compatible with the filter. It is matched
inclusively per key: a document is kept if, for every filter key, it either
matches that key's value or does not carry that key at all; it is excluded only
when it carries the key with a different value. Multiple keys are AND'd. Because a
document that lacks a key is never excluded by it, generic/untagged material always
survives — e.g. {"stateCode":"CA"} keeps California docs and generic docs that carry
no stateCode, while dropping docs tagged for other states. Unlike metadata,
document_filter is not session-sticky — it applies only to the turn that sends it —
and it never appears in the prompt or saved history. It only shrinks the retrieval
candidate set; top-k similarity ranking still runs afterward, so an eligible document is
not guaranteed to be retrieved if higher-scoring eligible documents fill the top-k.
Reads
- GET
…/dm/api/ai-mentor/orgs/{org}/users/{user}/sessions/— list the user's chat sessions. - GET
…/orgs/{org}/users/{user}/sessions/{session_id}/— the session's paginated chat messages (MessageView); the response also carriesclient_context, read from the session'smetadata["client_context"]. - GET
…/orgs/{org}/users/{user}/sessions/{session_id}/tasks/{task_id}/— the chat-history export (DownloadableChatHistory); every item carries aclient_contextfield. Add?to_csv=truefor a CSV whose columns are exactlytype,content,timestamp,client_context. Kicking off (POST) and polling that export task is owned by/iblai-api-agent-history. - Analytics echo: the same value comes back at
summary.client_contextfrom GET…/dm/api/analytics/messages/details/?platform_key={org}&session_id={session_id}— documented under/iblai-api-analytics.
Writes
- POST
https://asgi.data.iblai.app/api/agent/chat/?platform_key={org}&session_id={session_id}— send a chat turn; response is Server-Sent Events. Body (BaseConsumerPayload):{ "session_id": "…", "prompt": "Hello", "flow": { "name": "<agent unique_id>", "tenant": "<org key>" }, "page_content": "optional text appended to the prompt, stripped before saving", "metadata": { "any": "soft client context keys" }, "document_filter": { "stateCode": "CA" } }session_id(a UUID4) andfloware required;flow.nameselects the agent (itsunique_id, or a slug/name) andflow.tenantis the org key.promptandpage_contentdefault to empty,metadataanddocument_filterto null.metadatais soft passthrough — stored on the session asclient_context(see Concepts) and echoed in the reads above.document_filteris the hard retrieval scope — an inclusive per-key allow-list over documents' ingestedcustom_metadata, applied only to this turn and never persisted (see Concepts and Schema). The same payload works over WebSocket atwss://asgi.data.iblai.app/ws/chat/. - POST
…/dm/api/ai-mentor/orgs/{org}/users/{user}/sessions/— create/retrieve a session (ChatSessionView; the body'smentorfield picks the agent). Or let the first chat turn create one by passing a newsession_id.
Example
# Stream a chat turn with attached client context (SSE). MENTOR = the agent's unique_id.
curl -N -X POST \
"https://asgi.data.iblai.app/api/agent/chat/?platform_key=$IBLAI_ORG&session_id=$SESSION" \
-H "Authorization: Api-Token $IBLAI_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: text/event-stream" \
-d '{"session_id":"'"$SESSION"'","prompt":"Summarize my notes","flow":{"name":"'"$MENTOR"'","tenant":"'"$IBLAI_ORG"'"},"metadata":{"source":"docs","tab":"notes"}}'
# Read the session's messages back (client_context is the metadata you sent)
curl "https://api.iblai.app/dm/api/ai-mentor/orgs/$IBLAI_ORG/users/$IBLAI_USERNAME/sessions/$SESSION/" \
-H "Authorization: Api-Token $IBLAI_API_KEY"
# Download the history export as CSV (client_context is a column)
curl "https://api.iblai.app/dm/api/ai-mentor/orgs/$IBLAI_ORG/users/$IBLAI_USERNAME/sessions/$SESSION/tasks/$TASK/?to_csv=true" \
-H "Authorization: Api-Token $IBLAI_API_KEY"
Notes
- Streaming runs on ASGI — the chat turn (
/api/agent/chat/,/ws/chat/) is onasgi.data.iblai.app; session reads are ordinary REST on theapi.iblai.app/dmgateway.session_idandfloware required on every turn, andflow.namemust resolve to a deployed agent (itsunique_id, slug, or name). - For OpenAI-format inference against a provider/model (no agent RAG/memory), use
/iblai-api-inference; to chat via an MCP server instead of raw SSE, use/iblai-api-agent-chat; the history-export task (kick off + poll) is/iblai-api-agent-history; thesummary.client_contextanalytics read is/iblai-api-analytics.
Schema
metadata / client_context (soft) — an arbitrary JSON object (dict[str, Any] | null, BaseConsumerPayload.metadata). No fixed keys; use whatever your app needs, e.g.
product, planTier, userRole, region. Sent as metadata on a chat turn, it is
persisted at Session.metadata["client_context"] and read back as client_context in
the session-messages response, the history export (a client_context field per item, or
CSV column via ?to_csv=true), and analytics summary.client_context. It is appended to
the prompt but never restricts retrieval.
document_filter (hard) — an optional JSON object (dict[str, str|int|float|bool] | null, BaseConsumerPayload.document_filter) that scopes RAG retrieval to documents whose
ingested custom_metadata is compatible with the filter. It never touches the prompt and
is not persisted on the session (per-turn only). The keys/values here match the
custom_metadata you attach when adding documents — see /iblai-api-agent-dataset for
tagging documents at ingestion (the custom_metadata field on documents/train/).
- Keys must be flat and alphanumeric/underscore (
^\w+$) — no__, no ORM-style lookup suffixes (__icontains, etc.). Values must be scalars (string, number, or boolean); lists/objects/null are rejected. A malformed filter fails the turn with a validation error rather than being silently ignored. - Inclusive per key: a document is kept if, for every filter key, it matches the value or does not carry that key; it is excluded only when it carries the key with a different value. Multiple keys are AND'd.
- Matching is exact — value comparison is case- and type-sensitive (
"CA"≠"ca"; the integer2026≠ the string"2026"), and keys are matched exactly ("stateCode"≠"statecode"); a key no document carries acts as a no-op for that key. - State + generic pattern: ingest generic/shared documents with no state key and
state-specific documents with
stateCode = <state>; then{"stateCode":"CA"}retrieves California and generic documents while excluding other states — no per-state agent or two-stage retrieval needed. To search everything, send nodocument_filter(an empty or fully non-matching filter can yield an empty candidate set, and the agent may then answer without any retrieved context). - Eligibility ≠ retrieval: the filter only shrinks the candidate set; top-k similarity
ranking still runs, so an eligible document is not guaranteed to surface if higher-scoring
eligible documents fill the top-k. Raise the agent's retrieval
kif broad generic material is being crowded out.
Reference material
references/metadata-passthrough.md— themetadatapass-through companion: the<CONTEXT METADATA>prompt-injection format, per-transport wire notes (SSE/WebSocket + the embedded-iframepostMessagechannel), session caching (send-once, replace-not-merge, ~2h TTL), the one-agent-many-contexts pattern, the storage/pipeline map (sessionclient_contextvs. the per-message snapshot), and the softmetadatavs. harddocument_filtercomparison with the state-specific + generic retrieval pattern.