> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.omnara.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create agent input

> Sends a message to an agent and returns the stored input. Queued messages (the default) wait until the agent is ready for new work; steering messages reach it at its next model call.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.yaml post /orgs/{orgID}/projects/{projectID}/agents/{agentID}/inputs
openapi: 3.1.2
info:
  title: Omnara API
  version: 0.1.0
  description: Public HTTP API contract for Omnara.
servers:
  - url: https://api.omnara.com/v1
    description: Hosted Omnara
  - url: /api/v1
    description: Self-hosted Omnara, relative to the deployment origin
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
  - browserSessionCookie: []
tags:
  - name: Agents
    description: >-
      Launch agents, send inputs, manage the input backlog, and work with tool
      calls.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/agents/overview
  - name: Interactions
    description: List and resolve the approvals and questions that pause an agent.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/events/interactions
  - name: Actors
    description: Attribute agent inputs and interaction responses to external users.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: >-
        https://docs.omnara.com/events/sending-input#who-said-that-actors-and-attribution
  - name: Events
    description: Read or stream the agent timeline, list turns, and download artifacts.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/events/streaming
  - name: Configs and Profiles
    description: >-
      Create agent configs, manage reusable launch profiles, and set up
      integrations.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/agents/configuration
  - name: Integrations
    description: >-
      Connect project integrations, route conversations, and manage launch
      settings.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/integrations/overview
  - name: Models
    description: Configure model providers and models, and grant projects access to them.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/organization/model-providers
  - name: Machines
    description: Register machines, control project access, and manage daemon tokens.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/machines/connect
  - name: Machine Pools
    description: Define machine pools and grant projects access to them.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/machines/pools
  - name: Secrets
    description: >-
      Manage secret ownership and versions, and inspect or grant project
      availability.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/organization/secrets
  - name: Skills
    description: Manage versioned skill ownership and load skill instructions on demand.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/tools/skills
  - name: Organizations and Projects
    description: Create organizations and projects and manage membership.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/organization/members
  - name: Users and API Keys
    description: >-
      The authenticated user, personal and organization API keys, and
      invitations.
    externalDocs:
      description: Guide
      url: https://docs.omnara.com/api/authentication
  - name: Machine Daemon
    description: Routes the Omnara machine daemon uses to connect a machine.
paths:
  /orgs/{orgID}/projects/{projectID}/agents/{agentID}/inputs:
    parameters:
      - name: orgID
        in: path
        description: Organization ID (org_...).
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^org_[a-z2-7]{26}$
      - name: projectID
        in: path
        description: Project ID (proj_...).
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^proj_[a-z2-7]{26}$
      - name: agentID
        in: path
        description: Agent ID (agt_...).
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^agt_[a-z2-7]{26}$
    post:
      tags:
        - Agents
      summary: Create agent input
      description: >-
        Sends a message to an agent and returns the stored input. Queued
        messages (the default) wait until the agent is ready for new work;
        steering messages reach it at its next model call.
      operationId: createAgentInput
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKey'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateAgentInputRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Existing agent input returned.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInputEnvelope'
        '201':
          description: Agent input created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInputEnvelope'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '409':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Conflict'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServiceUnavailable'
        4XX:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ClientError'
        5XX:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
      security:
        - bearerAuth: []
        - browserSessionCookie: []
          csrfHeader: []
components:
  parameters:
    IdempotencyKey:
      name: Idempotency-Key
      in: header
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
        minLength: 1
        maxLength: 255
      description: Idempotency key for replay-safe mutating requests.
  schemas:
    CreateAgentInputRequest:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - content_blocks
      properties:
        content_blocks:
          type: array
          description: >-
            At most 20 inline media blocks per submission, each holding up to 10
            MiB of decoded media and up to 24 MiB decoded across the submission.
            Non-media blocks may hold up to 1 MiB combined. The whole request
            body is capped at 48 MiB.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateAgentInputContentBlock'
        delivery_mode:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateAgentInputDeliveryMode'
        cancel_open_interactions:
          type: boolean
          description: >-
            Only valid when delivery_mode is steering. When true, atomically
            cancels open interactions associated with the current turn's
            unfinished tool calls before creating the steering input. Their
            parent tool calls complete as canceled; the turn, runtime, and
            unrelated tool calls are preserved.
        actor:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExternalActorParams'
          description: >-
            External actor to attribute this input to, upserted by
            (provider_tenant_id, provider_user_id) atomically with the input; a
            rejected request writes no actor. Only allowed for non-user
            principals; requests authenticated as a user must omit it and are
            attributed to the user's omnara actor. When a non-user request omits
            it, the input has no actor attribution.
    AgentInputEnvelope:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - agent_input
      properties:
        agent_input:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInput'
    CreateAgentInputContentBlock:
      oneOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/TextContentBlock'
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InlineMediaContentBlock'
      discriminator:
        propertyName: type
        mapping:
          text: '#/components/schemas/TextContentBlock'
          media: '#/components/schemas/InlineMediaContentBlock'
    CreateAgentInputDeliveryMode:
      type: string
      enum:
        - queued
        - steering
    ExternalActorParams:
      type: object
      description: >-
        Identity and attributes of an external actor. Actors are upserted by
        (provider_tenant_id, provider_user_id) with the external provider.
        Omitted attributes keep their stored values; provided attributes are
        overwritten, including empty values. omnara actors are implicit and
        hosted integrations own their own actor identities.
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - provider_user_id
      properties:
        provider_tenant_id:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          maxLength: 128
        provider_user_id:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          maxLength: 128
        display_name:
          type: string
          maxLength: 256
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Metadata'
    AgentInput:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - id
        - agent_id
        - state
        - delivery_mode
        - input_kind
        - queued_at
      properties:
        id:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInputID'
        agent_id:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentID'
        state:
          type: string
        delivery_mode:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInputDeliveryMode'
        input_kind:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInputKind'
        actor_id:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ActorID'
          description: >-
            Actor this input is attributed to. Absent when the input has no
            actor attribution.
        input_idempotency_key:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Idempotency key supplied when this content input was created. Absent
            for other input kinds.
        content_blocks:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentInputContentBlock'
        queued_at:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Timestamp'
    Error:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - error
        - code
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message. Do not match on it programmatically.
        current_digest:
          type: string
          pattern: ^sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}$
          description: >-
            Current file digest for file_content_conflict or
            expected_digest_required; absent if the file no longer exists. A
            replacement must be confirmed before retrying with this digest.
        issues:
          type: array
          description: >-
            Field-level problems when a submitted document (such as an agent
            config source) failed validation. Absent for errors that are not
            about a specific field.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentConfigErrorIssue'
        code:
          type: string
          description: Stable error code for programmatic handling.
          x-go-type: ErrorCode
          x-extensible-enum:
            - invalid_request
            - unauthorized
            - forbidden
            - not_found
            - conflict
            - file_content_conflict
            - file_read_only
            - expected_digest_required
            - not_a_file
            - gone
            - request_too_large
            - unsupported_media_type
            - unprocessable
            - upstream_unavailable
            - rate_limited
            - internal_error
            - service_unavailable
            - idempotency_key_conflict
            - agent_backlog_full
            - state_transition_conflict
            - managed_work_admission_denied
            - pending_work
            - not_wake_capable
            - daemon_runtime_unregistered
            - validation_failed
            - csrf_check_failed
            - authentication_unavailable
    ClientErrorCode:
      type: string
      description: >-
        Stable error code carried by 4XX statuses. Subset of the Error code enum
        whose statuses are client errors.
      x-extensible-enum:
        - invalid_request
        - validation_failed
        - unauthorized
        - forbidden
        - csrf_check_failed
        - not_found
        - conflict
        - file_content_conflict
        - file_read_only
        - expected_digest_required
        - not_a_file
        - idempotency_key_conflict
        - agent_backlog_full
        - state_transition_conflict
        - pending_work
        - not_wake_capable
        - gone
        - daemon_runtime_unregistered
        - request_too_large
        - unsupported_media_type
        - unprocessable
        - upstream_unavailable
        - rate_limited
    ServerErrorCode:
      type: string
      description: >-
        Stable error code carried by 5XX statuses. Subset of the Error code enum
        whose statuses are server errors.
      x-extensible-enum:
        - internal_error
        - service_unavailable
        - authentication_unavailable
    TextContentBlock:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - type
        - text
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
            - text
        text:
          type: string
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentBlockMetadata'
    InlineMediaContentBlock:
      type: object
      description: >-
        Files that pass validation are stored as artifacts. Model input always
        includes the artifact ID, whether or not the file contents can be sent
        directly. Text media must contain valid UTF-8 and is sent as text.
        Images and PDFs are sent directly when supported by the configured
        provider and model; unsupported combinations are rejected. Other binary
        documents are sent directly only to OpenAI Responses models with file
        input support. Chat Completions and Anthropic Messages receive the
        artifact ID and the filename, if provided, instead of the contents of
        those documents.
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - type
        - media_type
        - data
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
            - media
        media_type:
          type: string
          enum:
            - image/png
            - image/jpeg
            - image/gif
            - image/webp
            - application/pdf
            - text/plain
            - text/markdown
            - text/csv
            - text/tab-separated-values
            - text/x-iif
            - application/msword
            - application/rtf
            - application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
            - application/vnd.apple.pages
            - application/vnd.apple.keynote
            - application/vnd.apple.iwork
            - application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
            - application/vnd.ms-excel
            - >-
              application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
            - >-
              application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
            - application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
        filename:
          type: string
          maxLength: 255
        data:
          type: string
          format: byte
          minLength: 1
          description: >-
            Base64-encoded file bytes. For text media types, the decoded bytes
            must be valid UTF-8.
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentBlockMetadata'
    Metadata:
      type: object
      description: >-
        Arbitrary key-value metadata. Maximum 16 pairs, keys up to 64
        characters, values must be strings of up to 512 characters.
      x-go-type: resourcemeta.Metadata
      x-go-type-import:
        path: github.com/omnara-ai/omnara/internal/resourcemeta
      x-go-type-skip-optional-pointer: true
      maxProperties: 16
      propertyNames:
        minLength: 1
        maxLength: 64
      additionalProperties:
        type: string
        maxLength: 512
    AgentInputID:
      type: string
      pattern: ^ain_[a-z2-7]{26}$
    AgentID:
      type: string
      pattern: ^agt_[a-z2-7]{26}$
    AgentInputDeliveryMode:
      type: string
      enum:
        - queued
        - steering
        - immediate
    AgentInputKind:
      type: string
      enum:
        - content
        - control
        - interaction_response
        - config_change
      x-enum-varnames:
        - AgentInputKindContent
        - AgentInputKindControl
        - AgentInputKindInteractionResponse
        - AgentInputKindConfigChange
    ActorID:
      type: string
      pattern: ^actr_[a-z2-7]{26}$
    AgentInputContentBlock:
      oneOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/TextContentBlock'
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/MediaRefContentBlock'
      discriminator:
        propertyName: type
        mapping:
          text: '#/components/schemas/TextContentBlock'
          media_ref: '#/components/schemas/MediaRefContentBlock'
    Timestamp:
      type: string
      format: date-time
    AgentConfigErrorIssue:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - path
        - message
      properties:
        path:
          type: string
          description: >-
            JSON Pointer (RFC 6901) to the offending field in the submitted
            document. An empty string refers to the whole document.
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable description of the problem with this field.
        line:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          description: >-
            1-based line of the offending field in the submitted source, when it
            can be located.
        column:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          description: >-
            1-based column of the offending field in the submitted source, when
            it can be located.
    ContentBlockMetadata:
      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Metadata'
      description: >-
        Arbitrary key-value metadata. Maximum 16 pairs, keys up to 64
        characters, values must be strings of up to 512 characters. Keys
        beginning with `omnara_` are reserved for Omnara and may affect product
        behavior; use them only when intentionally invoking Omnara-defined
        behavior.
    MediaRefContentBlock:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - type
        - artifact_id
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
            - media_ref
        artifact_id:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ArtifactID'
        exclude_from_model_context:
          type: boolean
          description: >-
            Whether the referenced artifact is excluded from later model
            context.
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentBlockMetadata'
    ArtifactID:
      type: string
      pattern: ^art_[a-z2-7]{26}$
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: The request was invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication is required or invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Forbidden:
      description: The authenticated principal is not authorized.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: The requested resource was not found or is not visible.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Conflict:
      description: >-
        The request conflicts with current resource state or idempotency
        history.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    ServiceUnavailable:
      description: The service dependency required to satisfy the request is unavailable.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    ClientError:
      description: >-
        Any other client error. The body carries the shared Error envelope
        restricted to client error codes; statuses with a dedicated response
        above are documented precisely.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            additionalProperties: false
            required:
              - error
              - code
            properties:
              error:
                type: string
                description: >-
                  Human-readable error message. Do not match on it
                  programmatically.
              code:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ClientErrorCode'
    ServerError:
      description: >-
        Any other server error. The body carries the shared Error envelope
        restricted to server error codes.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            additionalProperties: false
            required:
              - error
              - code
            properties:
              error:
                type: string
                description: >-
                  Human-readable error message. Do not match on it
                  programmatically.
              code:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServerErrorCode'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: Omnara personal or organization access token
      description: An opaque Omnara personal or organization bearer token.
    browserSessionCookie:
      type: apiKey
      in: cookie
      name: __Host-omnara_session
      description: >-
        Browser session cookie. HTTPS deployments use __Host-omnara_session;
        local HTTP development uses omnara_session.
    csrfHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Omnara-Csrf
      description: >-
        CSRF token header required for browser-session mutations. The value must
        match the session's CSRF cookie.

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