Venice Skills

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name: venice-chat
description: Call POST /chat/completions on Venice. Covers the OpenAI-compatible request shape, Venice-only venice_parameters (web search, E2EE, characters, thinking control, X search), multimodal inputs (images/audio/video), tool calls, reasoning controls, streaming, prompt caching, structured output, and model feature suffixes.
---

# Venice Chat Completions

`POST /api/v1/chat/completions` is Venice's main text endpoint. It's OpenAI-compatible, plus a `venice_parameters` object for Venice-only features.

## Use when

- You need LLM text generation, with or without tools, with or without streaming.
- You want multimodal inputs (images, audio, video) to a vision/audio-capable model.
- You want Venice-specific features: web search, E2EE, characters, xAI X/Twitter search, strip-thinking, web scraping.
- You need prompt caching for large system prompts or long documents.
- You need structured (`json_schema`) output.

For the newer Alpha **Responses API**, see [`venice-responses`](../venice-responses/SKILL.md).

## Minimal request

```bash
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "zai-org-glm-5-1",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Why is the sky blue?"}]
  }'
```

Response shape is the standard OpenAI `chat.completion` object (`id`, `object: "chat.completion"`, `choices[].message`, `usage`). With `stream: true`, responses come as SSE `data:` lines in `chat.completion.chunk` format.