---
title: "Ask Help"
method: POST
path: "/api/chats/{chat_id}/help-questions"
tags: ["chats"]
---

# Ask Help

`POST /api/chats/{chat_id}/help-questions`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.thinqos.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://app.thinqos.com/api/chats/{chat_id}/help-questions`
- Auth: none declared

Ask thinqOS Help a question about this conversation without adding Help as a participant.

Optionally quotes one selected message (checked against its hash) or replies to an earlier
Help answer; the answer is produced in the background and read with the status route.

## Path parameters

- `chat_id` string, uuid, required

## Headers

- `x-impersonate-identity-id` string, nullable

## Request body

- HelpQuestionRequest
  - `question` string, required
  - `source_message_id` string, uuid, nullable
  - `source_message_hash` string, nullable
  - `reply_help_message_id` string, uuid, nullable
  - `idempotency_key` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- HelpQuestionResponse
  - `status` 'completed' | 'pending' | 'failed', required
  - `question_message_id` string, uuid, required
  - `answer_message_id` string, uuid, nullable
  - `continuation_chat_id` string, uuid, nullable
  - `error` string, nullable

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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