# venice-responses

Work with Venice’s Alpha Responses endpoint: shape requests and handle typed output blocks. Useful when a client expects the OpenAI Responses format.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 160
- Author: veniceai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/veniceai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/venice-responses/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
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## What it does

The skill covers `POST /api/v1/responses`, including text and image input, function calls, web search, SSE events, and reasoning controls. Responses arrive as typed blocks, so an agent can handle messages and tool calls separately.

The endpoint is stateless, so each request must include the full conversation history. It cannot provide E2EE: on E2EE-capable models, calls return `400` unless `venice_parameters.enable_e2ee: false` is set. Audio, video, and file input are unsupported, as is structured output. The guide also explains which generation controls and `venice_parameters` are accepted.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-responses -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/venice-responses/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/venice-responses/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-responses -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/venice-responses/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-responses -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/venice-responses/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install veniceai/skills venice-responses
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/venice-responses/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-responses -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/veniceai/skills --path skills/venice-responses
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/venice-responses/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-responses -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/veniceai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/venice-responses/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- send requests to Venice Responses API
- separate messages from tool-call output
- include conversation history with each request
- configure function calls and web search
- identify supported endpoint parameters

## Example prompts
- Show me how to send text and an image to `POST /api/v1/responses`.
- Explain how to pass conversation history and process Venice’s typed output.
- Check which `venice_parameters` and reasoning controls this endpoint accepts.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: venice-responses
description: Use Venice's Alpha POST /responses endpoint - an OpenAI-compatible, stateless Responses API with typed output blocks (reasoning, message, function_call, web_search_call). Covers request shape, input items, tools (function, web_search, x_search), reasoning controls, incomplete responses, streaming events, differences from /chat/completions, the supported venice_parameters subset, and E2EE behavior.
---

# Venice Responses API (Alpha)

`POST /api/v1/responses` is Venice's OpenAI-compatible Responses endpoint. It returns a **typed output array** instead of a single `message.content` string — useful for agents that need to separate reasoning, messages, tool calls, and web-search events. Internally the request is translated to a chat completion, so model support matches [`venice-chat`](../venice-chat/SKILL.md).

> **Alpha.** The spec labels it Alpha (and its description still says "Alpha testers only"), but access is no longer restricted: any Bearer API key or x402 wallet can call it. Schemas may still change.

## Use when

- A client library expects the OpenAI Responses shape (`output[]` with `type: "reasoning" | "message" | "function_call" | "web_search_call"`).
- You want reasoning, message, and tool-call output cleanly separated.
- You want SSE streaming with typed events.

Otherwise use [`venice-chat`](../venice-chat/SKILL.md) — it has structured output, audio/video/file inputs, E2EE, sampling controls, and every `venice_parameters` field.

## Limitations vs `/chat/completions`

| Limitation | Detail |
|---|---|
| **Stateless** | Nothing is stored. Send the full history each call. `previous_response_id`, `store`, `background` are ignored. |
| **No E2EE** | E2EE-capable models return `400` unless `venice_parameters.enable_e2ee: false` (TEE-only mode). For encrypted inference use `/chat/completions`. |
| **Text + image input only** | `input_text` / `input_image` (and `text` / `image_url` parts). No audio, video, or file parts. |
| **No structured output** | `text.format` / `response_format` are dropped. Use `/chat/completions`. |
| **Subset of `venice_parameters`** | `character_slug`, `enable_e2ee`, `enable_web_search`, `enable_web_scraping`, `enable_web_citations`, `include_venice_system_prompt`, `include_search_results_in_stream`. Other keys (`strip_thinking_response`, `disable_thinking`, `enable_x_search`, `return_search_results_as_documents`) are silently dropped. |
| **No model feature suffixes** | `model: "zai-org-glm-5-1:enable_web_search=on"` resolves the model but ignores the suffix. |
| **Few generation controls** | Only `temperature`, `top_p`, `max_output_tokens`. |

## Authentication

Same as the rest of the API — `Authorization: Bearer <key>` or `SIGN-IN-WITH-X: <SIWX>` for x402 wallets. See [`venice-auth`](../venice-auth/SKILL.md).

## Minimal request

```bash
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/responses \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "zai-org-glm-5-1",
    "input": "Explain why the sky is blue in one paragraph."
  }'
```

OpenAI SDK (Python):

```python
import os
from openai import OpenAI
````
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