---
title: "Convert Work Chat"
method: POST
path: "/work/chats/{chat_id}/convert"
tags: ["Work"]
---

# Convert Work Chat

`POST /work/chats/{chat_id}/convert`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1/work/chats/{chat_id}/convert`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Turn a chat into a private channel named `name`, history intact. PERSONAL KEY ONLY.

`201` with `channel`, `chatId`, `agentIds`, `copiedMessages` and `duplicate`. 404 for a chat that is not the caller's,
409 when the name is taken or the chat was already converted, 422 for a name that cannot be a channel name.

## Path parameters

- `chat_id` string, required: Chat id

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string, nullable: Retry-safety key. Replaying one returns the ORIGINAL result with `duplicate: true` instead of writing twice. Omit it and the server mints a single-use key, which means a retried request writes again: send your own for anything you may retry.
- `Authorization` string, nullable
- `X-Target-Org-Id` string, nullable

## Request body

- WorkChatConvertBody: The channel a chat becomes. The name is normalised like a new channel's name.
  - `name` string, required
  - `displayName` string, nullable

## Response `201`

Successful Response

- ApiResponseWorkChannelPayload
  - `data` WorkChannelPayload, required: A Work channel, chat, output, task, decision or activity document, as the app returns it.
  - `pagination` PaginationMeta
    - `page` integer, required: Current page number (1-indexed)
    - `limit` integer, required: Items per page
    - `total` integer, required: Total number of items
    - `has_next` boolean, required: Whether there are more pages
    - `next_cursor` string, nullable: Opaque cursor for the next page; null when there are no more items. Pass it back as the `cursor` query param to fetch the following page without computing page numbers.
    - `total_available` integer, nullable: Search endpoints only: how many records really match, when known. Can be larger than `total`, which is capped at the 10,000 results that can be paged. For company search this is a distinct-company estimate. Null when unknown; absent outside search.
    - `total_is_lower_bound` boolean, nullable: Search endpoints only: true when more records match than `total` shows (the result set is larger than the 10,000 results that can be paged). Absent outside search.
    - `notes` string[], nullable: Search endpoints only: plain-language notes about the result, e.g. that more records match than can be paged, or that a reversed `between` range was put in order.

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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