Viewing My Assistant Thread Messages Using The API

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When using the assistant playground, this message appears saying that anyone can view my messages using the API

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Though, I saw these two messages in the forum:
Forum doesn’t let me add links anymore :frowning: add ‘h’ at the beginning of these links:
ttps://community.openai.com/t/list-of-threads-is-missing-from-the-api/484510/31?u=sargent

ttps://community.openai.com/t/list-of-threads-is-missing-from-the-api/484510/28?u=sargent

Implying that there is no programmatic way of enquiring all my chat history with the assistant, given that I can’t list all threads programmatically.

Which one is correct? Can you list all threads programmatically? if not, why is this message is there in the playground?

@logankilpatrick @sashirestela

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Adding photos for these broken links

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See my answer here

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Couldn’t make it work

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Anyway, as I saw from the code. this is actually a wrapper for the OpenAI API that actually manages the threads for you. What if I’m just using the playground, can anyone monitor my thread using the API?

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It’s strange that you could not make it work.

Just to be sure, this is what I did in an attempt to reproduce your issue.

  1. created a tmp dir under src
    mkdir tmp
  2. cd tmp
  3. git clone git clone GitHub - icdev2dev/openairetro
  4. cd openairetro
  5. create a virtual env and activate it
    python3 -mvenv ~/envs/tmp_openairetro
    source ~/envs/tmp_openairetro/bin/activate
  6. install the necessary packages
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  7. export OPENAI_API_KEY
    source ~/creds/openai_p
  8. cd into examples/listablethreads
  9. python core.py --list_threads

should get you a

I also ran python interpreter

from core import ListableThread
ListableThread.list()

thread = ListableThread.create()
thread.id
‘thread_Gsk…q’

ListableThread.list()
[Thread(thread_id=‘thread_Gsk…q’)]

Please let me know if these were the steps (roughly) that you took as well?

Yes, this is a wrapper for the OpenAI APIs; making use of the powerful metadata behind the scene.

On your second question, is the concern that given a thread_id, will anyone be able to monitor your thread? I know that I do auto-summarize with low-water-mark on a different process; so that the context of the thread (messages) do not grow too long. In fact this was the primary reason for creating listable threads. So that a process could monitor the growth and auto-summarize and truncate an arbitary set of threads.

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I created simple script in case anyone run in to similar issue for deleting/listing threads. please adapt to ur use