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POST
/
v1
/
agent
Create agent
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/agent \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "project_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
  "name": "<string>",
  "description": "<string>",
  "metadata": {}
}
'
import requests

url = "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/agent"

payload = {
    "project_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "name": "<string>",
    "description": "<string>",
    "metadata": {}
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

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

print(response.text)
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    project_id: '3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a',
    name: '<string>',
    description: '<string>',
    metadata: {}
  })
};

fetch('https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/agent', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/agent",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'project_id' => '3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a',
    'name' => '<string>',
    'description' => '<string>',
    'metadata' => [
        
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/agent"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"project_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n  \"name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"description\": \"<string>\",\n  \"metadata\": {}\n}")

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

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

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

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

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/agent")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"project_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n  \"name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"description\": \"<string>\",\n  \"metadata\": {}\n}")
  .asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/agent")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"project_id\": \"3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a\",\n  \"name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"description\": \"<string>\",\n  \"metadata\": {}\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
  "project_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
  "user_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
  "name": "<string>",
  "slug": "<string>",
  "kind": "<string>",
  "created": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "description": "<string>",
  "metadata": {}
}
"<string>"
"<string>"
"<string>"
"<string>"
"<string>"

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Most Braintrust endpoints are authenticated by providing your API key as a header Authorization: Bearer [api_key] to your HTTP request. You can create an API key in the Braintrust organization settings page.

Body

application/json

Any desired information about the new agent object

An agent is a project-scoped durable object that identifies an AI agent or service emitting spans

project_id
string<uuid>
required

Unique identifier for the project that the agent belongs under

name
string
required

Name of the agent. Within a project, agent names are unique

description
string | null

Textual description of the agent

metadata
object | null

User-controlled metadata about the agent

Response

Returns the new agent object

An agent is a project-scoped durable object that identifies an AI agent or service emitting spans

id
string<uuid>
required

Unique identifier for the agent

project_id
string<uuid>
required

Unique identifier for the project that the agent belongs under

user_id
string<uuid>
required
name
string
required

Name of the agent. Within a project, agent names are unique

slug
string
required

Stable, URL-safe identifier for the agent, unique within its project.

kind
string
required

Agent classification: 'custom' for customer-defined agents, 'loop' for built-in Loop agents.

created
string<date-time> | null

Date of agent creation

description
string | null

Textual description of the agent

metadata
object | null

User-controlled metadata about the agent