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Retrieve a session

GET
/v1/sessions/{session_id}
<?php
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.ai.wpengine.com/v1/sessions/example', [
'headers' => [
'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
],
]);
echo $response->getBody();

Returns a session with its resolved agent. Accepts a service-token bearer authenticating a site or an API key, either of which must be authorized for the session’s project. Returns 404 if not found or the caller is not authorized.

session_id
required
string

The session ID.

The session

Media typeapplication/json
object
id
required
string
type
required
string
Allowed values: session
agent
required
One of:
object
id
required

Unique identifier for the agent.

string
type
required
string
Allowed values: agent
project_id
required

The project the agent belongs to.

string
name
required
string
model
required
string
description
string
system_prompt

User prompt template (site prompt).

string
temperature
number format: float
max_tokens

Output-token limit per turn (see CreateAgentRequest.max_tokens). Omitted when unset on the agent.

integer
reasoning_effort

Catalog-native reasoning effort stored on the agent. Omitted when unset. Allowed values follow the agent’s current model on GET /v1/models.

string
scopes

Permission scopes the agent operates under (round-trips the request value).

Array<string>
settings

Feature toggles for the agent (round-trips the request value).

object
key
additional properties
any
mcp_servers
Array<object>
object
key
additional properties
any
tools

Tool declarations (client tools, knowledge_base grounding entries, and echo/random_number evaluation tool opt-ins) round-tripped from the request.

Array
One of: discriminator: type
object
type

Discriminator for the tools[] union. Omit for a plain client tool (the default); custom is the only value this schema accepts.

string
Allowed values: custom
name

Unique tool name. Must be unique within the agent’s tools array (across every entry, regardless of type). Always present for tools created since name validation was added; may be absent on an agent whose tools were stored before that validation existed.

string
<= 64 characters /^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,64}$/
description

Human-readable description of what the tool does.

string
input_schema

JSON Schema defining the tool’s input parameters.

object
label

Optional short human-readable name for the tool, used alongside name and description when the gateway matches a search query against deferred tools. Supply it when the tool’s name is a slug whose wording a natural-language query would not contain.

string
<= 64 characters
defer_loading

When true, the tool is declared but kept out of the model’s tool list until it is needed, so a large catalogue costs no context up front. The gateway offers the agent a search over the deferred tools and loads the matches, and a deferred tool the model names directly is loaded on demand. Once loaded, its input is enforced strictly against its schema — unlike a non-deferred tool, which keeps today’s lenient handling — so a malformed call is rejected with a model-readable error instead of failing downstream. Leave false (the default) for tools that must be callable from the first turn.

boolean
skills
Array<object>
object
key
additional properties
any
metadata

User-supplied string metadata. Reserved keys (“scopes”, “settings”) are surfaced on their own top-level fields rather than appearing here.

object
key
additional properties
string
<= 512 characters
created_at
required
string format: date-time
updated_at
string format: date-time
nullable
status
required
string
Allowed values: idle running rescheduling terminated error
title
string
reasoning_effort

Session override for reasoning effort. Omitted when unset (the session inherits the agent’s value, then the provider default).

string
metadata
object
key
additional properties
string
usage
required
object
input_tokens
required
integer
output_tokens
required
integer
cache_read_input_tokens
required
integer
cache_creation_input_tokens
required
integer
credits_nano
required

Cumulative billing total in nano-credits (billionths of a credit)

integer
archived_at
string format: date-time
nullable
created_at
required
string format: date-time
updated_at
string format: date-time
nullable
owner_id

Opaque per-visitor id recorded at creation, when the creator supplied one. Absent for sessions created without per-visitor attribution.

string
Example
{
"type": "session",
"agent": {
"type": "agent",
"tools": [
{
"type": "custom",
"defer_loading": false
}
]
},
"status": "idle"
}

Invalid request body or parameters

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
message
required
string
type
required
string
code
required
integer
request_id
required

Correlation ID for this request, matching the X-Request-ID response header — a 32-character trace ID behind the load balancer, otherwise a UUID. Quote it in support reports.

string
Example
{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request_error",
"request_id": "80f1e2c3a4b5c6d7e8f9a0b1c2d3e4f5"
}
}

Missing or invalid bearer token

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
message
required
string
type
required
string
code
required
integer
request_id
required

Correlation ID for this request, matching the X-Request-ID response header — a 32-character trace ID behind the load balancer, otherwise a UUID. Quote it in support reports.

string
Example
{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request_error",
"request_id": "80f1e2c3a4b5c6d7e8f9a0b1c2d3e4f5"
}
}
WWW-Authenticate
string
Example
Bearer realm="ai-services"

The token is valid, but the caller is not permitted to perform this action — either its scope/permission is insufficient or the authenticated user is not authorized for the target account (error type “permission_error”). On /v1/chat/completions specifically, a 403 with error type “content_policy_violation” instead means the request content was blocked by content moderation policy; that response never identifies which filter or category matched.

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
message
required
string
type
required
string
code
required
integer
request_id
required

Correlation ID for this request, matching the X-Request-ID response header — a 32-character trace ID behind the load balancer, otherwise a UUID. Quote it in support reports.

string
Example
{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request_error",
"request_id": "80f1e2c3a4b5c6d7e8f9a0b1c2d3e4f5"
}
}

The requested resource was not found

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
message
required
string
type
required
string
code
required
integer
request_id
required

Correlation ID for this request, matching the X-Request-ID response header — a 32-character trace ID behind the load balancer, otherwise a UUID. Quote it in support reports.

string
Example
{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request_error",
"request_id": "80f1e2c3a4b5c6d7e8f9a0b1c2d3e4f5"
}
}

The server encountered an unexpected error while handling the request. Safe to retry once; if it persists, the cause is server-side and the request payload was not the problem.

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
message
required
string
type
required
string
code
required
integer
request_id
required

Correlation ID for this request, matching the X-Request-ID response header — a 32-character trace ID behind the load balancer, otherwise a UUID. Quote it in support reports.

string
Example
{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request_error",
"request_id": "80f1e2c3a4b5c6d7e8f9a0b1c2d3e4f5"
}
}

A required dependency is temporarily unavailable. Retry after a short delay with exponential back-off.

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
message
required
string
type
required
string
code
required
integer
request_id
required

Correlation ID for this request, matching the X-Request-ID response header — a 32-character trace ID behind the load balancer, otherwise a UUID. Quote it in support reports.

string
Example
{
"error": {
"type": "invalid_request_error",
"request_id": "80f1e2c3a4b5c6d7e8f9a0b1c2d3e4f5"
}
}