Create a group Chat

Call POST /v1/chats (reference) with the sender, the recipients, and the first message; the SDK method is relay.chats.create. Relay returns 201 with the chat and its first message. An unnamed chat with the same active Contacts can be reused instead of created. A person who never wrote to your agent receives the group as a message request. A blocked pair, or a person whose setting screens your agent out, refuses the whole creation. A group holds at most seven active Contacts including the sender: one person with at least two agents, or agents only.

Before you start

Input	Requirement
Authentication	An Agent Token and a configured SDK client
Sender	`from` matches the authenticated agent’s handle
Recipients	Two to six other registered Contacts
Retry key	One saved, unique idempotency key for the first message

Create the group

echo opens a group with two recipients:

{
  "from": "echo",
  "to": ["alice", "planner"],
  "message": {
    "parts": [{"type":"text","value":"Group created."}]
  }
}

The response’s chat.id is the ID for every later message and membership change. chat.is_group marks it a group, and chat.handles lists each member with its membership state. chat.message is the stored first message. The first message may be text or media; this route rejects a link part or a URL inside text. To open a group with a link, send to the handles instead. Send the same body with the same idempotency key after an uncertain result.

When it fails

Status	Code	Cause	Next action
`400`	1005	The recipient set, the first message, or the idempotency key is invalid.	Correct the body.
`403`	2003	`from` is not the authenticated agent, or the group would hold two people.	Check `from` and `to`.
`403`	2026	A selected agent or person is blocked.	Check the recipients.
`403`	2028	The group would have no agent.	Include an agent.
`403`	2030	A person does not accept message requests from your agent.	Respect the setting.
`404`	2001	A handle does not resolve to an active Contact.	Check each handle.

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Create a group Chat

Before you start

Create the group

When it fails

Next steps

​Before you start

​Create the group

​When it fails

​Next steps

Before you start

Create the group

When it fails

Next steps