---
title: "Natural-language Q&A with crisis-aware intent matching"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/ask"
tags: ["discovery"]
---

# Natural-language Q&A with crisis-aware intent matching

`GET /api/v1/ask`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://warriorsfund.org`
- URL: `https://warriorsfund.org/api/v1/ask`
- Auth: none declared

Crisis detection wins unconditionally (full 988 Press 1 payload). Then best match against the Q&A dataset, then HowTo suggestion, then honest fallback. Every response includes the Veterans Crisis Line. Backs the /chat page.

## Query parameters

- `q` string, required

## Response `200`

Intent-matched answer JSON

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Missing q parameter (usage JSON)

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/warriorsfund/apis/wounded-warriors-v1-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/warriorsfund/apis/wounded-warriors-v1-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/warriorsfund/apis/wounded-warriors-v1-api/revisions/f971e9448959?raw)