# Create Agent Response

**POST** `/v1/agent`

Generate a response for the provided input with optional web search and reasoning.

Base URL: `https://api.perplexity.ai`

## Authorization

| Option | Scheme | Type | Sent as | Scopes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Option 1 | `HTTPBearer` | `http` | `Authorization: Bearer <token>` | — |

## Request body

Required. Media type: `application/json`

### Example request body

```json
{
  "background": true,
  "input": "string",
  "instructions": "string",
  "language_preference": "string",
  "max_output_tokens": 0,
  "max_steps": 0,
  "model": "string",
  "models": [
    "string"
  ],
  "preset": "string",
  "previous_response_id": "string",
  "profile": {
    "id": "string",
    "type": "custom",
    "version": "string"
  },
  "reasoning": {
    "effort": "high"
  },
  "response_format": {
    "json_schema": {
      "description": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "schema": {
        "additionalProp1": null
      },
      "strict": true
    },
    "type": "json_schema"
  },
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "office",
      "type": "builtin"
    }
  ],
  "store": true,
  "stream": true,
  "temperature": 0,
  "tools": [
    {
      "allowed_tools": [
        "string"
      ],
      "id": "string",
      "server_description": "string",
      "server_label": "string",
      "type": "connector"
    }
  ],
  "top_p": 0
}
```

## Responses

| Status | Description | Media type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `200` | Successful response. Content type depends on `stream` parameter: - `stream: false` (default): `application/json` with Response - `stream: true`: `text/event-stream` with SSE events | `application/json, text/event-stream` |
| `400` | Invalid request. Includes an unresolvable `previous_response_id`: the referenced response does not exist, belongs to a different account, has failed, or is still running. | `application/json` |

### Example response: 200 — Successful response. Content type depends on `stream` parameter:
- `stream: false` (default): `application/json` with Response
- `stream: true`: `text/event-stream` with SSE events

```json
{
  "created_at": 0,
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "type": "string"
  },
  "id": "string",
  "model": "string",
  "object": "response",
  "output": [
    {
      "contents": [
        {
          "snippet": "string",
          "title": "string",
          "url": "string"
        }
      ],
      "type": "fetch_url_results"
    }
  ],
  "status": "cancelled",
  "usage": {
    "cost": {
      "cache_creation_cost": 0,
      "cache_read_cost": 0,
      "currency": "USD",
      "input_cost": 0,
      "output_cost": 0,
      "tool_calls_cost": 0,
      "total_cost": 0
    },
    "input_tokens": 0,
    "input_tokens_details": {
      "cache_creation_input_tokens": 0,
      "cache_read_input_tokens": 0
    },
    "output_tokens": 0,
    "tool_calls_details": {
      "additionalProp1": {
        "invocation": 0
      }
    },
    "total_tokens": 0
  }
}
```

### Example response: 400 — Invalid request. Includes an unresolvable `previous_response_id`: the referenced response does not exist, belongs to a different account, has failed, or is still running.

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}
```

## Related pages

- [Add a skill revision](./updateskill.md)
- [Cancel Agent Response](./cancelagentresponse.md)
- [Create a skill](./createskill.md)
- [Create Async Chat Completion](./create_async_chat_completions_async_chat_completions_post.md)
- [Create Chat Completion](./chat_completions_chat_completions_post.md)
- [Create Contextualized Embeddings](./contextualized_embeddings_v1_contextualizedembeddings_post.md)
- [Create Embeddings](./embeddings_v1_embeddings_post.md)
- [Delete a skill](./deleteskill.md)
- [Download Agent Response File](./downloadagentfile.md)
- [Get a skill](./getskill.md)

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