{
  "id": 15950827,
  "title": "How SentX's API Works: A Plain-English Walkthrough",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/how-sentxs-api-works-a-plain-english-walkthrough",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-21T21:04:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/nabconn/how-sentxs-api-works-a-plain-english-walkthrough-2b3g"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "SentX's API allows businesses, small development shops, and curious founders to integrate an AI assistant into their own tools, such as research workflows or document-producing processes. An API is a standardized method for one piece of software to request a service from another piece of software and receive a response. In the case of SentX's Victoria, the API follows the OpenAI Chat Completions format, which is widely recognized and familiar to many developers.\n\nWhen using SentX's API, your software sends Victoria the conversation history up to the current point, along with the new message. Victoria processes this conversation and returns the next reply, which your software then displays to the user or uses in a larger process. This design provides control by allowing your team to decide what context Victoria sees in each response, which is particularly important for sensitive or confidential information.\n\nWith SentX's API, you can build general chat applications, web research tools, writing and document assistance, and similar workflows. It supports research workflows and document-related outputs, making it useful for teams looking to incorporate AI into their research or document-related processes.",
  "summary": "Most explanations of AI APIs are written for people who already build software for a living, and they lose everyone else in the first paragraph. That is a shame, because the API is often the part of an AI product a business team, a small development shop, or a curious founder actually needs to understand. The chat window is what you see. The API is how the same intelligence gets wired into your…",
  "key_points": [
    "SentX API enables integration of AI assistant into various tools",
    "Uses OpenAI Chat Completions format for standardized communication",
    "Allows control over context Victoria sees in each response"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}