AI Agent API Backend

A backend for building AI-powered applications using Encore.ts and Claude.

Deploy to Encore

Architecture

This app has two services:

  • chat — Manages conversation sessions and message history (Postgres DB). Exposes the public API.
  • ai — Internal service that calls the Anthropic Claude API to generate responses.

Prerequisites

Getting Started

  1. Set the Anthropic API key as a secret:
encore secret set --type dev,local,pr,prod AnthropicAPIKey
  1. Run the app:
encore run

The Postgres database is provisioned automatically on startup. Encore runs the migrations and manages the database for you — no manual setup required.

Open http://localhost:4000 for usage instructions, or http://localhost:9400 for the Local Dashboard. When deployed to Encore Cloud, use the Service Catalog to call endpoints and view traces to see how requests flow between services.

API Endpoints

Send a message

curl -X POST http://localhost:4000/chat \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message": "What is Encore?"}'

Returns a session_id you can use for follow-up messages:

curl -X POST http://localhost:4000/chat \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message": "Tell me more", "session_id": "<session_id>"}'

Get conversation history

curl http://localhost:4000/chat/<session_id>

List all sessions

curl http://localhost:4000/chat