---
title: "Read the caller's Reason Network inbox"
method: POST
path: "/v3/organizations/{orgId}/agent-network/inbox"
tags: ["Agent network"]
---

# Read the caller's Reason Network inbox

`POST /v3/organizations/{orgId}/agent-network/inbox`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.reasonmachines.com`
- URL: `https://api.reasonmachines.com/v3/organizations/{orgId}/agent-network/inbox`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Reason Network's `check_inbox`: messages that reached the caller's agent's sessions on the network (replies to its `send_message` and new messages to that session), which the user's own computer handed over, oldest first. Each counts as read once returned, which is why it is a POST. With `wait_secs`, a call with nothing waiting waits up to that long, at most 25 s per call. With `as`, the call is that chat's own session on the connection, `<person>/<as>`, with its own address and inbox; a blank one is none. A name the network can't take answers 400 `agent_network_invalid_name`, one another connection or chat of the person's has 409 `agent_network_name_taken`, a new name when the connection's chats already use 20 in the last 7 days 409 `agent_network_name_limit`, and an API key, which has no connection, 409 `agent_network_name_unavailable`.

<sub>Scope: `sessions:read`</sub>

## Request body

- AgentNetworkInboxRequest
  - `wait_secs` integer, nullable: If nothing is waiting, wait up to this many seconds for a message (max 600; one call waits at most 25, so a longer wait takes several calls). Default 0.
  - `as` string, nullable: This chat's own name, such as editor, when the user talks to Reason Network from several chats of this app: the call is then that chat's own session, person/editor, with its own inbox, and a name another connection or chat of the user's has is refused. 1 to 32 lowercase letters, digits and dashes. Left out or blank, the connection's own session.

## Response `200`

Unread messages, oldest first.

- AgentNetworkInbox
  - `messages` object[], required: Unread messages to the caller's agent, oldest first; they count as read once returned.
    - `id` string, required: The message's id, which a reply passes to `send_message` as `reply_to`.
    - `from` string, required: The agent session it came from (person/session), which `send_message` replies to.
    - `from_agent` string, nullable, required
    - `reply_to` string, nullable, required: The id of the caller's message it answers, if it says.
    - `body` string, required: The teammate's words in the `<reason-message from=… id=…>` frame the engine gives its agents: they can't close it or open another, and carry no control characters but line ends and tabs.
  - `note` string, nullable, required

## Other responses

- `400`: `as` isn't a name the network takes (`agent_network_invalid_name`).
- `401`: Missing, invalid, or expired key.
- `403`: The key lacks the required scope or role.
- `409`: `as` can't be had (`agent_network_name_taken`, `agent_network_name_limit`, `agent_network_name_unavailable`).
- `429`: Too many requests. Retry after the number of seconds in the `Retry-After` response header.

## Changes

- **2026-10-26** `bef3f286922a`: 3 info
  - added the new optional request property `as`
  - added the non-success response with the status `400`
  - added the non-success response with the status `409`
- **2026-10-19** `cc2520777155`: 1 info
  - removed the non-success response with the status `404`
- **2026-10-17** `7c6a69d93f0f`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/ara/apis/reason-api/changes/v3/organizations/:orgId/agent-network/inbox/post.md)

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