First, navigate to the Admin console, and go to the Tools tab. Click the New Tool button.

Next, specify a OpenAPI 3.0 or OpenAPI 3.1 schema that defines the APIs that you want to make available as part of this tool.

Danswer provides dynamic context variables that can be utilized within your OpenAPI definition, enhancing the functionality and context-awareness of your custom tools. These variables are:

  • CHAT_SESSION_ID: Replaced with the chat session ID in which the tool call was made.

  • CHAT_MESSAGE_ID: Replaced with the chat message ID which triggered the tool call.

For example: /persona/CHAT_SESSION_ID/messages/CHAT_MESSAGE_ID with CHAT_SESSION_ID = 20 and CHAT_MESSAGE_ID = 10 would become /persona/20/messages/10

To improve performance:

  • Add descriptive summarys for each operation (API).
  • Give each operation a descriptive operationId.
  • Add descriptions for parameter.

For example, you could use the following to create a tool that allows an assistant to fetch and create assistants with Danswer:

{
   "openapi":"3.0.0",
   "info":{
      "version":"1.0.0",
      "title":"Assistants API",
      "description":"An API for managing assistants within Danswer"
   },
   "servers":[
      {
         "url":"http://localhost:8080"
      }
   ],
   "paths":{
      "/persona":{
         "get":{
            "summary":"Get a specific Assistant",
            "operationId":"getAssistant",
            "parameters":[
               {
                  "name":"assistant_id",
                  "in":"path",
                  "required":true,
                  "schema":{
                     "type":"string"
                  }
               }
            ]
         },
         "post":{
            "summary":"Create a new Assistant",
            "operationId":"createAssistant",
            "requestBody":{
               "required":true,
               "content":{
                  "application/json":{
                     "schema":{
                        "type":"object",
                        "properties":{
                           "name":{
                              "type":"string"
                           },
                           "description":{
                              "type":"string"
                           },
                           "num_chunks":{
                              "type":"number"
                           },
                           "llm_relevance_filter":{
                              "type":"boolean"
                           },
                           "is_public":{
                              "type":"boolean"
                           },
                           "llm_filter_extraction":{
                              "type":"boolean"
                           },
                           "recency_bias":{
                              "type":"string",
                              "enum":[
                                 "favor_recent",
                                 "base_decay",
                                 "no_decay",
                                 "auto"
                              ]
                           },
                           "prompt_ids":{
                              "type":"array",
                              "items":{
                                 "type":"integer"
                              }
                           },
                           "document_set_ids":{
                              "type":"array",
                              "items":{
                                 "type":"integer"
                              }
                           },
                           "tool_ids":{
                              "type":"array",
                              "items":{
                                 "type":"integer"
                              }
                           },
                           "llm_model_provider_override":{
                              "type":"string",
                              "nullable":true
                           },
                           "llm_model_version_override":{
                              "type":"string",
                              "nullable":true
                           },
                           "starter_messages":{
                              "type":"array",
                              "items":{
                                 "type":"object",
                                 "properties":{
                                    "role":{
                                       "type":"string"
                                    },
                                    "content":{
                                       "type":"string"
                                    }
                                 }
                              },
                              "nullable":true
                           },
                           "users":{
                              "type":"array",
                              "items":{
                                 "type":"string",
                                 "format":"uuid"
                              },
                              "nullable":true
                           },
                           "groups":{
                              "type":"array",
                              "items":{
                                 "type":"integer"
                              },
                              "nullable":true
                           }
                        },
                        "required":[
                           "name",
                           "description",
                           "num_chunks",
                           "llm_relevance_filter",
                           "is_public",
                           "llm_filter_extraction",
                           "recency_bias",
                           "prompt_ids",
                           "document_set_ids",
                           "tool_ids"
                        ]
                     }
                  }
               }
            }
         }
      }
   }
}
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