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Nuclia Ask API

Generative RAG answers, chat and summarization grounded in a Knowledge Box.

Nuclia Ask API is one of 5 APIs that Nuclia publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

Tagged areas include Ask. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and an AsyncAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{zone}.nuclia.cloud/api.

2 operations 2 paths 4 schemas 2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://{zone}.nuclia.cloud/api/v1
Authentication
API Key, HTTP Bearer, API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 3

Nuclia Ask API declares 3 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as X-NUCLIA-SERVICEACCOUNT (apiKey). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth). An API key is passed in the header as X-NUCLIA-NUAKEY (nuaKey). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • apiKey — Knowledge Box service account API key. Pass as X-NUCLIA-SERVICEACCOUNT: Bearer . Reader keys allow search/find/ask, Writer keys allow ingestion and resource mo…
  • bearerAuth — OAuth2 / account bearer token obtained from the Nuclia authentication service, used by the dashboard and management endpoints.
  • nuaKey — Nuclia Understanding API (NUA) key. Pass as X-NUCLIA-NUAKEY: Bearer to call the /v1/predict endpoints.

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Ask 2

Generative RAG answers, chat and summarization grounded in a Knowledge Box.

POST
/v1/kb/{kbid}/ask
Ask a Knowledge Box (RAG generative answer)
ask 2 params body → 200
POST
/v1/kb/{kbid}/summarize
Summarize resources
summarize 1 param body → 200

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AskRequest (9 properties), AskResponse (6 properties), FindResults (4 properties), SummarizeRequest (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

AskResponse
object
6 properties
SummarizeRequest
object
3 properties
FindResults
object
4 properties
AskRequest
object
9 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

nuclia-ask-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Nuclia publishes across the network.

Nuclia Knowledge Boxes API
Nuclia Predict API
Nuclia Resources API
Nuclia Search API