Azure AI Assistants (preview) -> how to call Assistants in API in our function/app - "once created in playground" -> i.e. write once, call anywhere

Question

Hi. we've created a few Assistants in Assistants playground. We've their IDs. However can't find API call format to call Assistants using Assistant_ID. The API quickstart is focused on creating new assistant.

Qn: Can we "write once, call anywhere" AI Assistants? If yes, how? We don't see any parameter in API call to indicate already created Assistant_ID. Will JSON response of such API return thread_ID?

Thanks.

Answer 1

@GenixPRO Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

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Yes, you can “write once, call anywhere” with Azure AI Assistants. See this article.

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Once you’ve created your Assistants in the playground and have their IDs, you can call them using the Assistants API. Here’s how you can do it:

1. Initialize the Assistant: Use the assistant_id to initialize the Assistant in your application. For example, in Python, you can use the following code snippet:

2. Create a Thread: To interact with the Assistant, you need to create a thread. This thread will manage the conversation context.

thread = client.beta.threads.create(assistant_id=assistant.id)

3. Run the Assistant: Once the thread is created, you can start a run to get responses from the Assistant.

run = client.beta.threads.runs.create(thread_id=thread.id, assistant_id=assistant.id)

4. Handle Responses: The JSON response from the API will include a thread_id, which you can use to continue the conversation in subsequent API calls.

For more detailed information, you can refer to the Azure OpenAI Assistants documentation

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Hope this helps. If you have any follow-up questions, please let me know. I would be happy to help.

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