Assistant API does not work while assistant in Playground works perfectly (same inputs)

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I had a similar issue. However, I took a different approach. I still used the assistant API but with manual embedding. This will require a few changes when the vector store issue is sorted.

Here is my approach in case you want to try it:

Assistant v2 not using vector store via API

Seeing that this is a known issue without any solution at the moment, I’ve decided to mix manual embedding with assistant api and the result is excellent. Token usage is minimised from average of 10k (on playground with vector store) to just 1k-2k with embedding. Here’s my workflow if anyone is interested From Admin Dashboard Admin select file(s) to upload Files are uploaded to web server storage and also upload to OpenAI files API OpenAI file ID is attached to the vector store, and also sav…