---
title: "Start Files"
method: POST
path: "/brain/files/start"
---

# Start Files

`POST /brain/files/start`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.heygradon.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.heygradon.com/brain/files/start`
- Auth: none declared

Links for the laptop to put files in the bucket itself: each picture where it is kept (none for a file whose
pictures are up already), and POST /files's body without pictures in an inbox, which /files/done reads in.

## Request body

- BrainAppStarting
  - `files` Pictured[], required
    - `path` string, required
    - `content_hash` string, required
    - `pages` string[], required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- object

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/heygradon/apis/gradon-brain.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/heygradon/apis/gradon-brain/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/heygradon/apis/gradon-brain/revisions/3d596282064d?raw)
