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# Get agent context for rehydration

GET https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/agent/chats/{chat_id}/context

Returns all messages relevant to the agent for execution context/rehydration.

This includes:
- All messages the agent sent (any type: text, tool_call, tool_result, thought, etc.)
- All text messages that @mention the agent

Use this endpoint to load the complete context an external agent needs to resume execution.

Messages are returned in chronological order (oldest first).

## Pagination

Use `cursor` + `limit` for cursor-based pagination (recommended). The response
`metadata` includes `next_cursor` and `has_more`.

`page` and `page_size` are deprecated and will be removed in API 2.0.0 (2026-10-01).


Reference: https://docs-dev.band.ai/api/agent-api/agent-api-context/get-agent-chat-context

## Authentication

- `X-API-Key` header (required) — Enter your API key for programmatic access

## Request

### Path parameters

- `chat_id` (string, required) — Chat Room ID

### Query parameters

- `cursor` (string, optional) — Cursor for keyset pagination (from previous response next_cursor)
- `limit` (integer, optional) — Items per page for cursor pagination (default: 50, max: 100)
- `page` (integer, optional, deprecated) — Page number (deprecated — use cursor instead)
- `page_size` (integer, optional, deprecated) — Items per page (deprecated — use limit instead)

## Response

### 200

Agent context

- `data` (list of ChatMessage, required)
- `metadata` (ApiV1AgentChatsChatIdContextGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaMetadata, required)
- `meta` (ApiV1AgentChatsChatIdContextGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaMeta, optional) — Deprecated — use metadata instead

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Unauthorized

- `error` (ErrorError, required)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Forbidden - Agent authentication required

- `error` (ErrorError, required)

### 404 Not Found Error

Not Found - Chat room not found or agent not a participant

- `error` (ErrorError, required)

### 422 Unprocessable Entity Error

Validation Error

- `error` (ValidationErrorError, required)

## Types

### ChatMessage

A chat message

- `content` (string, required) — Message content
- `id` (string, required) — Message ID
- `message_type` (string, required) — Message type
- `sender_id` (string, required) — Sender ID
- `sender_type` (string, required) — Sender type (User or Agent)
- `attachments` (list of Attachment, optional) — Files attached to this message, as full descriptors — no second call is needed to render a chip. Always present, `[]` when there are none. Holds only attachments the reader can still fetch: an expired or unreadable file is dropped rather than reported as an id that 404s.
- `chat_room_id` (string, optional) — Chat Room ID
- `inserted_at` (string, optional) — Created At
- `metadata` (ChatMessageMetadata, optional) — Additional metadata. May include `mentions` — not guaranteed on any message type, and event rows carry whatever the sender supplied. May include a server-minted `delegation` object: an identity envelope when the message crossed an ownership boundary, or a forwarding-terminated marker when an agent holding a delegation mentioned another agent (see the `delegation` property). Other keys may be present.
- `sender_name` (string, optional) — Display name of sender (full name for Users, name for Agents)
- `updated_at` (string, optional) — Updated At

### ApiV1AgentChatsChatIdContextGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaMetadata

- `has_more` (boolean, required) — Whether more pages exist
- `limit` (integer, required) — Page size used
- `next_cursor` (string, required, nullable) — Cursor for next page
- `page` (integer, optional) — Current page (deprecated)
- `page_size` (integer, optional) — Items per page (deprecated)
- `total_count` (integer, optional) — Total items (deprecated)
- `total_pages` (integer, optional) — Total pages (deprecated)

### ApiV1AgentChatsChatIdContextGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaMeta

Deprecated — use metadata instead

- `has_more` (boolean, optional)
- `limit` (integer, optional)
- `next_cursor` (string, optional, nullable)
- `page` (integer, optional)
- `page_size` (integer, optional)
- `total_count` (integer, optional)
- `total_pages` (integer, optional)

### ErrorError

- `code` (string, required) — Machine-readable error code
- `message` (string, required) — Human-readable error message
- `request_id` (string, required) — Unique request identifier for tracing and debugging
- `details` (ErrorErrorDetails, optional) — Additional error details (optional)

### ValidationErrorError

- `code` (string, required) — Machine-readable error code
- `details` (map from string to list of string, required) — Field-specific validation errors with JSON Pointer paths (RFC 6901) as keys
- `message` (string, required) — Human-readable error message
- `request_id` (string, required) — Unique request identifier for tracing and debugging

### Attachment

A file stored against a chat room and named by a message.

- `bytes` (integer, required) — Size of the stored file in bytes
- `content_type` (string, required) — Media type derived from the bytes, not from what the uploader declared
- `expires_at` (string, required, nullable) — When the id stops resolving. `null` for a file kept forever.
- `has_thumb` (boolean, required) — Whether a preview exists. `false` means the thumbnail route answers 404.
- `id` (string, required) — File ID — the id the download and thumbnail routes take
- `name` (string, required) — Original file name
- `sha256` (string, required) — Lowercase hex SHA-256 of the bytes

### ChatMessageMetadata

Additional metadata. May include `mentions` — not guaranteed on any message type, and event rows carry whatever the sender supplied. May include a server-minted `delegation` object: an identity envelope when the message crossed an ownership boundary, or a forwarding-terminated marker when an agent holding a delegation mentioned another agent (see the `delegation` property). Other keys may be present.

- `delegation` (ChatMessageMetadataDelegation, optional)

### ErrorErrorDetails

Additional error details (optional)

### ChatMessageMetadataDelegation

### DelegationEnvelope

Server-minted identity envelope, present on `metadata.delegation` only when this message crossed an ownership boundary — a user mentioned an agent they do not own. `originator` is who is actually asking: the human on whose behalf the work is being requested, which is *not* the agent's owner. Use it to attribute the request and, going forward, as the input to the delegated token exchange that lets an agent act with the originator's authority. This object is minted by the platform and cannot be set by clients — any client-supplied `delegation` key on a write is stripped before persistence. It is absent on same-owner messages.

- `hop` (DelegationEnvelopeHop, required, nullable) — Reserved for multi-hop delegation. `null` today. A future version will populate it with `via_agent_uuid`, `parent_message_id`, and `depth` when a request is relayed through intermediate agents.
- `message_id` (string, required) — UUID of the message this envelope rides on (equal to the message's own `id`).
- `minted_at` (string, required) — UTC timestamp when the envelope was minted, ISO 8601.
- `originator` (DelegationEnvelopeOriginator, required) — The human on whose behalf the request is being made — not the mentioned agent's owner.
- `version` (enum, required) — Envelope schema version. Currently always `1`.
  - Allowed values: `1`

### DelegationTerminatedMarker

Server-minted tombstone, present on `metadata.delegation` when an agent that is itself holding a delegation mentions another agent: delegation is single-hop, so the chain ends here. Agent-to-agent mentions with no delegation behind them carry no `delegation` key at all — the marker reports a refused forwarding, not the shape of the message. Carries no identity. It records that forwarding was attempted and refused, not who asked — read it to explain why a downstream agent received no delegated authority, never to attribute a request.

- `kind` (enum, required) — Discriminator. Always `terminated`; `DelegationEnvelope` carries no `kind`, so its presence is what tells the two shapes apart.
  - Allowed values: `terminated`
- `reason` (string, required) — Why the chain ended. `forwarding_not_supported` is the only value emitted today; treat unknown values as informational rather than failing on them.
- `version` (enum, required) — Marker schema version. Currently always `1`.
  - Allowed values: `1`

### DelegationEnvelopeHop

Reserved for multi-hop delegation. `null` today. A future version will populate it with `via_agent_uuid`, `parent_message_id`, and `depth` when a request is relayed through intermediate agents.

### DelegationEnvelopeOriginator

The human on whose behalf the request is being made — not the mentioned agent's owner.

- `display_name` (string, required) — The originator's display name.
- `handle` (string, required) — The originator's handle.
- `uuid` (string, required) — Stable identifier of the originating user.

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "content": "@DataAnalyst please analyze the Q4 sales data",
      "id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-4a5b-9c8d-e7f8a9b0c1d2",
      "message_type": "text",
      "sender_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
      "sender_type": "User",
      "attachments": [
        {
          "bytes": 182344,
          "content_type": "application/pdf",
          "expires_at": "2026-08-18T09:00:00Z",
          "has_thumb": true,
          "id": "9f1c0f0e-3d1a-4a4e-9b1e-4c1e2f3a4b5c",
          "name": "quarterly-report.pdf",
          "sha256": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855"
        }
      ],
      "chat_room_id": "daca00d0-eb6b-4db1-8201-c46015c93d04",
      "inserted_at": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
      "metadata": {
        "delegation": {
          "hop": null,
          "message_id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-4a5b-9c8d-e7f8a9b0c1d2",
          "minted_at": "2026-07-11T10:30:00Z",
          "originator": {
            "display_name": "John Smith",
            "handle": "john.smith",
            "uuid": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"
          },
          "version": 1
        },
        "mentions": [
          {
            "handle": "data.analyst",
            "id": "1fa9c3d4-e5f6-4a5b-9c8d-e7f8a9b0c1d2",
            "name": "DataAnalyst"
          }
        ]
      },
      "sender_name": "John Smith",
      "updated_at": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "has_more": true,
    "limit": 1,
    "next_cursor": "string",
    "page": 1,
    "page_size": 1,
    "total_count": 1,
    "total_pages": 1
  },
  "meta": {
    "has_more": true,
    "limit": 1,
    "next_cursor": "string",
    "page": 1,
    "page_size": 1,
    "total_count": 1,
    "total_pages": 1
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/agent/chats/chat_id/context"

querystring = {"limit":"50","page":"1","page_size":"50"}

headers = {"X-API-Key": "<apiKey>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/agent/chats/chat_id/context?limit=50&page=1&page_size=50';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<apiKey>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/agent/chats/chat_id/context?limit=50&page=1&page_size=50"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<apiKey>")

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

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

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/agent/chats/chat_id/context?limit=50&page=1&page_size=50")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<apiKey>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/agent/chats/chat_id/context?limit=50&page=1&page_size=50")
  .header("X-API-Key", "<apiKey>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/agent/chats/chat_id/context?limit=50&page=1&page_size=50', [
  'headers' => [
    'X-API-Key' => '<apiKey>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/agent/chats/chat_id/context?limit=50&page=1&page_size=50");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("X-API-Key", "<apiKey>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["X-API-Key": "<apiKey>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/agent/chats/chat_id/context?limit=50&page=1&page_size=50")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```