# Create an assistant

For guidance and examples, see [Create an assistant](/guides/build-an-assistant-create-assistant)

```bash curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.pinecone.io/assistant/assistants" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-assistant",
  "instructions": "Use American English for spelling and grammar.",
  "metadata": {"team": "customer-support", "version": "1.0"},
  "region":"us"
}'
```

```json curl theme={null}
{
  "name": "example-assistant",
  "instructions": "Use American English for spelling and grammar.",
  "metadata": {"team": "customer-support", "version": "1.0"},
  "status": "Initializing",
  "host": "https://prod-1-data.ke.pinecone.io",
  "created_at": "2025-10-01T12:30:00Z",
  "updated_at": "2025-10-01T12:30:00Z"
}
```

`POST /assistants`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/assistant/assistants \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "name": "example-assistant",
  "instructions": "<string>",
  "metadata": {},
  "region": "<string>"
}'
```

```json title="200"
{
  "name": "example-assistant",
  "instructions": "<string>",
  "metadata": {},
  "status": "<string>",
  "host": "<string>",
  "created_at": "<string>",
  "updated_at": "<string>"
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

- `Authorization` (header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`.

## Headers

- `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` (header, string, required) — Required date-based version header

## Body

- `name` (body, string, required) — The name of the assistant. Resource name must be 1-63 characters long, start and end with an alphanumeric character, and consist only of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-'.
- `instructions` (body, string) — Description or directive for the assistant to apply to all responses. Maximum 16 KB.
- `metadata` (body, object) — Optional metadata associated with the assistant. Metadata is a JSON object that can store custom organizational data, tags, and attributes. Maximum size is 16KB.
- `region` (body, string) — The region to deploy the assistant in. Our current options are either us or eu. Defaults to us.

## Response

- `200` — Create request successful.
- `400` — Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters.
- `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.
- `429` — Assistant of given name already exists.
- `500` — Internal server error.

## Related pages

- [Account management](./account-management-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-2-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Architecture](./architecture-index.md)
- [Assistants](./assistants-index.md)
- [Bring Your Own Cloud](./bring-your-own-cloud-index.md)
- [Build an assistant](./build-an-assistant-index.md)
- [Build an integration](./build-an-integration-index.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog-index.md)

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