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# Create a chat room

POST https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/me/chats
Content-Type: application/json

Creates a new chat room with you as the owner.

The chat room title is auto-generated from the first message.
You can optionally associate the chat room with a task by providing a task_id.


Reference: https://docs-dev.band.ai/api/human-api/human-api-chats/create-my-chat-room

## Authentication

- `X-API-Key` header (required) — Enter your API key for programmatic access
- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Enter your JWT token (without the 'Bearer ' prefix)

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects an object.

- `chat` (ApiV1MeChatsPostRequestBodyContentApplicationJsonSchemaChat, required)

## Response

### 201

Created Chat Room

- `data` (MeChatRoom, required) — Human-API chat room — verbose shape. Includes `:type` and `:status` so the caller can render archive/active state and room kind without a follow-up fetch. Agent callers see the terse `ChatRoom` shape instead.

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Unauthorized

- `error` (ErrorError, required)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Forbidden - Agent authentication not allowed, or plan quota limit reached (code: limit_reached)

- `error` (ErrorError, required)

### 422 Unprocessable Entity Error

Validation Error

- `error` (ValidationErrorError, required)

## Types

### ApiV1MeChatsPostRequestBodyContentApplicationJsonSchemaChat

- `task_id` (string, optional, nullable) — Associated task ID (optional)
- `title` (string, optional, nullable) — Optional title for the chat room. If provided and non-blank after trimming, the room is marked title_locked: true and LLM auto-titling is skipped for this room. Empty/whitespace-only/null falls through to the default and LLM auto-titles on the first message. Control characters (newline, carriage return, null) are rejected with 422. Max 120 chars.

### MeChatRoom

Human-API chat room — verbose shape. Includes `:type` and `:status` so the caller can render archive/active state and room kind without a follow-up fetch. Agent callers see the terse `ChatRoom` shape instead.

- `id` (string, required) — Chat Room ID
- `inserted_at` (string, required) — Created At
- `last_message_at` (string, required, nullable) — Time of the newest chat-content message in the room (text + the ChatEventMessageType event types; internal message types and soft-deleted messages never move it; thread replies count); null when there is none. Unlike `updated_at` it does not move on metadata writes such as rename, so display chat recency from this field. Not accepted by `sort_by` — order fetched pages client-side.
- `updated_at` (string, required) — Updated At
- `agents` (list of MeChatRoomAgentsItems, optional) — Full assigned-agent roster in assignment-time order, with stable membership-ID ties. Includes inactive assignments and is empty when none remain. Present only while ff_room_tasks is enabled and the room is readable; otherwise omitted. Membership changes refresh the full row through room_updated.
- `description` (string, optional, nullable) — Generated room-purpose summary, whitespace-normalized and bounded to 200 Unicode graphemes. Null until generated from the original eligible opener; present only for readable rooms while ff_room_tasks is enabled. Omitted otherwise. Not manually writable.
- `status` (enum, optional) — Chat room status — `archived`/`active` round-trip via the archive/unarchive endpoints
  - Allowed values: `active`, `archived`, `closed`
- `task_counts` (MeChatRoomTaskCounts, optional) — Active-lifecycle task counts for the room's shared board, keyed by TASK status with every key present including zeros. On the detail while `ff_room_tasks` is on for the tenant; on list rows for the rooms you can READ (PLT-1555) — a listed room your own row is blocked in carries neither this nor `work_status` unless you own a participating agent; an admin-context caller (a global admin's requests) sees them on every listed row, as the detail read admits every room. Optional, never null: the server omits the key rather than sending an explicit null. Because the rows carry it, a list needs no per-room fetch on first paint; later changes ride the `room_updated` event on `user_rooms:*` (PLT-1553). Independent of the sibling `work_status`: these keys count board TASKS, while `work_status` reports the room's AGENT activity. `failed` appears in both and means a different thing in each, so a room can report `failed` counts while `work_status` is `idle`, and the reverse.
- `task_id` (string, optional, nullable) — Associated Task ID
- `title` (string, optional, nullable) — Chat room title
- `type` (enum, optional) — Chat room type
  - Allowed values: `direct`, `group`, `task`
- `work_status` (enum, optional) — The state of the WORK in the room, derived and never stored (PLT-1554): `stopped` when an active agent participation is stopped, `failed` when one has failed, `working` when an agent shows a working indicator (the same presence `room_activity` reads), else `idle`; ranked in that order. The spec's `attention` value is absent until attention items exist; do not read its absence as idle. Present only while `ff_room_tasks` is on for the tenant, and on list rows only for the rooms you can read — the same rule as `task_counts`. Independent of that sibling map: this reports the room's AGENT activity, while `task_counts` counts board TASKS. `failed` appears in both with unrelated meanings.
  - Allowed values: `idle`, `working`, `stopped`, `failed`

### 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

### MeChatRoomAgentsItems

- `handle` (string, required, nullable) — Canonical owner/slug handle, or null when unavailable
- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `type` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `Agent`

### MeChatRoomTaskCounts

Active-lifecycle task counts for the room's shared board, keyed by TASK status with every key present including zeros. On the detail while `ff_room_tasks` is on for the tenant; on list rows for the rooms you can READ (PLT-1555) — a listed room your own row is blocked in carries neither this nor `work_status` unless you own a participating agent; an admin-context caller (a global admin's requests) sees them on every listed row, as the detail read admits every room. Optional, never null: the server omits the key rather than sending an explicit null. Because the rows carry it, a list needs no per-room fetch on first paint; later changes ride the `room_updated` event on `user_rooms:*` (PLT-1553). Independent of the sibling `work_status`: these keys count board TASKS, while `work_status` reports the room's AGENT activity. `failed` appears in both and means a different thing in each, so a room can report `failed` counts while `work_status` is `idle`, and the reverse.

- `blocked` (integer, required)
- `completed` (integer, required)
- `failed` (integer, required)
- `in_progress` (integer, required)
- `in_review` (integer, required)
- `pending` (integer, required)

### ErrorErrorDetails

Additional error details (optional)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "daca00d0-eb6b-4db1-8201-c46015c93d04",
    "inserted_at": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "last_message_at": null,
    "updated_at": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "status": "active",
    "task_id": null,
    "title": null,
    "type": "direct"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/me/chats"

payload = {}
headers = {
    "X-API-Key": "<apiKey>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

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

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/me/chats';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'X-API-Key': '<apiKey>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{}'
};

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"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/me/chats"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{}")

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

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<apiKey>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	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/me/chats")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<apiKey>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{}"

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.post("https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/me/chats")
  .header("X-API-Key", "<apiKey>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{}")
  .asString();
```

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

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/me/chats', [
  'body' => '{}',
  'headers' => [
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
    'X-API-Key' => '<apiKey>',
  ],
]);

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

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/me/chats");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("X-API-Key", "<apiKey>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "X-API-Key": "<apiKey>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.dev.band.ai/api/v1/me/chats")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

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()
```