Invoke Skill Topic Ask

post/api/v1/skills/topic.ask/invoke

Ask a question in a Topic conversation and wait (bounded) for the final answer. On timeout the turn keeps running server-side and status=running is returned — poll the conversation.

Request bodyapplication/json

Field	Type	Description
`topic_id`required	`string`	Topic permakey (preferred) or UUID
`question`required	`string`	—
`conversation_id`	`string \| null`	Existing conversation in the topic; omitted = the topic's most-recent conversation, auto-created+linked if none exists
`timeout_seconds`	`integer`	—

Responses

200Skill executed successfully

Field Type Description

skillrequired string —

outputrequired

object

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Field	Type	Description
`stub_fields`	`string[]`	—
`warnings`	`string[]`	—
`topic_id`	`string`	The topic's permakey (the public id).
`permakey`	`string`	The 7-char public topic id — THE id to show users and reuse in later topic_* calls (UUIDs are internal).
`conversation_id`	`string`	—
`message_id`	`string`	—
`query_id`	`string`	—
`status`	`string`	—
`answer`	`string`	—
`metadata`	`object`	— show nested Empty object.

correlation_idrequired string —

401Authentication required

Field Type Description

errorrequired

object

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Field	Type	Description
`type`required	`string`	—
`code`required	`string`	—
`message`required	`string`	—
`param`	`string`	—
`retry_after_seconds`	`integer`	—

403Insufficient permissions

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errorrequired

object

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Field	Type	Description
`type`required	`string`	—
`code`required	`string`	—
`message`required	`string`	—
`param`	`string`	—
`retry_after_seconds`	`integer`	—

404Skill not found

Field Type Description

errorrequired

object

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Field	Type	Description
`type`required	`string`	—
`code`required	`string`	—
`message`required	`string`	—
`param`	`string`	—
`retry_after_seconds`	`integer`	—

429Rate limit exceeded

Field Type Description

errorrequired

object

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Field	Type	Description
`type`required	`string`	—
`code`required	`string`	—
`message`required	`string`	—
`param`	`string`	—
`retry_after_seconds`	`integer`	—

5XXInternal server error

Field Type Description

errorrequired

object

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Field	Type	Description
`type`required	`string`	—
`code`required	`string`	—
`message`required	`string`	—
`param`	`string`	—
`retry_after_seconds`	`integer`	—

curl https://api.dev.arch.ie/api/v1/skills/topic.ask/invoke \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "topic_id": "string",
       "question": "string",
       "conversation_id": null,
       "timeout_seconds": 0
     }'