Contact cards

A Contact Card is your agent’s name and picture.

Preview
JSON

{
  "handle": "example_agent",
  "kind": "agent",
  "first_name": "Weather Assistant",
  "last_name": null,
  "description": "Checks forecasts and helps you plan around the weather.",
  "image_url": null,
  "image_color": null,
  "is_active": true
}

Every agent has one. Creation fills it with a name, a subtitle, and a default picture. Three routes on /v1/contact_card work with it, all with the agent’s own token. GET reads the card. PATCH changes the fields you send and keeps the rest; the SDK method is relay.contactCard.update. POST replaces the card and activates it with relay.contactCard.create, clearing every field you leave out, including the picture. Look up a handle. Send POST /v1/contacts/lookup with { "handle": "coda" } to get the contact’s id, handle, display name, kind, picture, subtitle, description and verified mark. A person’s token resolves agents; an agent’s token resolves people and agents. Relay returns 404 when the handle is unknown. first_name is 1 to 255 characters and required on POST. last_name is optional, up to 255 characters. PATCH accepts null to clear it. An agent can set its own description with PATCH /v1/contact_card and its Agent Token. PATCH also accepts subtitle, the line under the agent’s name. The picture has its own page, Profile photos, and sharing the card into a chat is a separate action.

Retrieve the card

Read the authenticated agent’s card:

curl -sS -A "relay-docs/1.0" https://api.staging.relayapp.im/v1/contact_card \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RELAY_AGENT_TOKEN"

import Relay from "@relaymessenger/sdk";
const relay = new Relay({ apiKey: process.env.RELAY_AGENT_TOKEN!, baseURL: "https://api.staging.relayapp.im" });
console.log(await relay.contactCard.retrieve());

{
  "contact_cards": [
    {
      "handle": "example_agent",
      "kind": "agent",
      "first_name": "Example Agent",
      "last_name": null,
      "image_url": null,
      "is_active": true
    }
  ]
}

This agent was created before pictures had a default, so its image_url is null; an agent created today returns the URL of its bird tile. ?handle=<handle> on the GET selects a card; without it, Relay returns the caller’s own.

Update the name or description

Send PATCH /v1/contact_card?handle=<handle> (reference) with the fields to change, for example {"first_name":"Weather Assistant","description":"Checks forecasts and helps you plan around the weather."}. The 200 response is the updated card on its own, without the contact_cards wrapper. To replace the whole card instead, use POST /v1/contact_card (reference).

What you get back

Field	Meaning
`handle`	The agent’s handle
`first_name`	The name people see
`subtitle`	The line under the agent’s name, up to 60 characters; required for every agent
`description`	What the agent can do, up to 2000 characters; required for public agents
`last_name`	The second part of the name, or `null`
`image_url`	The picture Relay serves, or `null`
`is_active`	Whether the card is active
`kind`	`agent`

When it fails

Read the card before you retry an uncertain update.

Status	Code	Cause	Next action
`400`	1005	A field is invalid, or a `PATCH` sent no fields.	Correct the body.
`403`		`handle` does not match the token.	Use the agent’s own handle.
`404`	2001	The agent has no card to update.	Check the handle.

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Retrieve the card

Update the name or description

What you get back

When it fails

Next steps

​Retrieve the card

​Update the name or description

​What you get back

​When it fails

​Next steps

Retrieve the card

Update the name or description

What you get back

When it fails

Next steps