# Is there thread session in the new "Responses API"? **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Tags:** api, assistants-api\ **Created:** [March 17, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/is-there-thread-session-in-the-new-responses-api/1144987 "2025-03-17T08:40:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![amrsa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/amrsa/32/353091_2.png) [@amrsa](https://community.openai.com/u/amrsa)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/is-there-thread-session-in-the-new-responses-api/1144987/1 "2025-03-17T08:41:00Z")
Hello there, I was investigating the new core API “Responses API” and i was wondering how can i keep the conversation going similar ? for example i was using assistant API and was able to keep the context of conversation by keep reusing the same thread id, is there something similar in API responses ? best regards ---
**Author:** ![\_j](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/_j/32/766292_2.png) [@\_j](https://community.openai.com/u/_j)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 8:53am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/is-there-thread-session-in-the-new-responses-api/1144987/2 "2025-03-17T08:53:28Z")
> [@Introducing the Responses API](https://community.openai.com/t/introducing-the-responses-api/1140929/12): > > The responses API doesn’t have threads, a single list of messages and internal calls that you can add to and run. Instead, for server-side chat history state, it stores the request ID and its completion contents with every API call you make. There is also an API parameter for “instructions” if you want the first system message to be separately changeable instead of being a part of the past messages sent. To use this, (in the manner that many novices would expect API calls to somehow “remembe…