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# Estimate the token + time cost of curating the in-progress manifest

> Spins up the `profile` runtime to estimate the token + time cost of curating the sources under the in-progress manifest (sent in the request body), returned as the task's `output` (see `ProfileEstimateOutput`). Persists nothing; the console polls it for the Design-page cost box. Body is optional.



## OpenAPI

````yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-api/refs/heads/main/2026-07/nexus_2026-07.oas.yaml POST /contexts/{slug}/profile
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Nexus API
  contact:
    name: Pinecone Support
    url: https://support.pinecone.io
    email: support@pinecone.io
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  version: 2026-07
  description: >
    Nexus turns a set of sources into a queryable, self-improving knowledge
    base. A context is **sources + a manifest**: upload sources, **curate** them
    into a searchable index (curate is explicit — there is no auto-curate), and
    then query the context. The manifest (a single validated JSON document)
    defines how the context indexes, retrieves, and answers.


    Conventions:


      * The `{slug}` path parameter accepts the URL-safe context slug **or**
        its UUID.

      * Contexts return a `ContextResponse` (derived flags), not the raw
        persisted model. Tasks return a `TaskResponse`.

      * Querying is the unified KnowQL Query API: `POST /api/query` runs one
        turn (`ask` in, answer out); multi-turn conversations are **sessions**
        (`GET/DELETE /api/sessions`, `GET /api/queries/{id}`). Read the
        answer from `output[].content[].text`.

      * Tasks are a top-level, project-owned resource at `/api/tasks` —
        they are no longer nested under contexts. Active workflow types are
        `optimize`, `curate`, `search`, `search_cc`, `search_rag`, `explore`,
        `profile`, `import`, `pack`, `restore`.
servers:
  - url: https://{host}/api
    description: Your Nexus deployment host
    variables:
      host:
        default: api.example.com
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
  - apiKey: []
tags:
  - name: Auth
    description: Login and identity.
  - name: Project
    description: The active Pinecone project and its disclosure state.
  - name: Contexts
    description: A context is sources + a manifest. Curate it explicitly before querying.
  - name: Manifest
    description: Manifest templates and the per-context manifest.
  - name: Source Files
    description: >-
      Per-context source imports (upload, connector, public repo) and the source
      file tree.
  - name: Knowledge
    description: Read-only browse of curated knowledge (chunks + artifacts).
  - name: Curation
    description: Curate workflow trigger, curation ledger, and version-pin primitives.
  - name: Connectors
    description: >-
      Project-level links to external source providers (Box, ...). Linked via
      OAuth or an API key, then used to import source documents into a context.
  - name: Query
    description: >-
      The unified KnowQL Query API: run a query turn (`/query`), fetch a turn
      (`/queries/{id}`), inspect its trace, manage feedback, comparison flags,
      and multi-turn sessions (`/sessions`).
  - name: Tasks
    description: >-
      Top-level, project-owned task records for every workflow (optimize,
      curate, search, work, explore, profile, import, pack, restore, groom).
  - name: Task Files
    description: Read, list, and delete files from live or archived task containers.
paths:
  /contexts/{slug}/profile:
    parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContextSlug'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiVersionHeader'
    post:
      tags:
        - Contexts
      summary: Estimate the token + time cost of curating the in-progress manifest
      description: >-
        Spins up the `profile` runtime to estimate the token + time cost of
        curating the sources under the in-progress manifest (sent in the request
        body), returned as the task's `output` (see `ProfileEstimateOutput`).
        Persists nothing; the console polls it for the Design-page cost box.
        Body is optional.
      operationId: profile_context
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                manifest:
                  allOf:
                    - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Manifest'
                  description: In-progress manifest to estimate against (default {})
                pinecone_api_key:
                  type: string
                  description: Task-token override; normally not needed
      responses:
        '200':
          description: 'Profile enqueued (`state: profiling`)'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/WorkflowTriggerResponse'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  parameters:
    ContextSlug:
      name: slug
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Context slug or UUID.
    ApiVersionHeader:
      in: header
      name: X-Pinecone-Api-Version
      description: >-
        Date-based contract version. Omit to resolve to the Nexus default
        version (`2026-07`, the oldest served version); send `unstable` for the
        in-development surface. The resolved version is echoed back on the same
        header. A present-but-unrecognized value is rejected with `400
        unsupported_api_version`.
      required: false
      style: simple
      schema:
        type: string
        default: 2026-07
        x-enum:
          - 2026-07
          - unstable
  schemas:
    Manifest:
      type: object
      description: >-
        The context manifest that drives curate and search. A sparse document —
        every field is optional and an omitted key falls back to the validator
        default, so absent fields are omitted rather than nulled. Value
        constraints are enforced by the write-side validator.
      properties:
        curate:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/CurateManifest'
        optimize:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OptimizeManifest'
    WorkflowTriggerResponse:
      type: object
      required:
        - task_id
        - state
      description: >-
        The uniform acknowledgment every context-workflow trigger returns.
        `state` is the forward-looking status; the per-workflow boolean flags
        are legacy and set only for the workflows that historically emitted
        them.
      properties:
        task_id:
          type: string
        state:
          type: string
          x-enum:
            - optimizing
            - grooming
            - exploring
            - profiling
            - importing
        exploring:
          type: boolean
          description: Legacy flag; present only for explore
        profiling:
          type: boolean
          description: Legacy flag; present only for profile
        importing:
          type: boolean
          description: Legacy flag; present only for the import/curate triggers
    CurateManifest:
      type: object
      properties:
        chunks:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChunksConfig'
        artifacts:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ArtifactsConfig'
    OptimizeManifest:
      type: object
      description: Scheduled self-tuning config.
      properties:
        schedule:
          type: string
          maxLength: 128
          default: 0 * * * *
          description: cron
        latency_threshold_ms:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 600000
          default: 60000
        min_group_size:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 100
          default: 2
        eval_pass_rate_threshold:
          type: number
          format: double
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 1
          default: 1
        max_iterations:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 100
          default: 20
    Error:
      type: object
      required:
        - message
      description: The error envelope every non-2xx response uses.
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
        code:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Stable machine-readable code, present only on errors a client must
            branch on. 
          x-enum:
            - unsupported_api_version
            - preview_not_enabled
            - preview_file_limit
            - preview_byte_limit
            - workspace_host_required
            - workspace_not_found
    ChunksConfig:
      type: object
      description: Source chunking + embedding config.
      properties:
        enabled:
          type: boolean
          default: true
        embedding_model:
          type: string
          maxLength: 128
          default: multilingual-e5-large
        chunking:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChunkingConfig'
        keyword:
          type: object
          properties:
            enabled:
              type: boolean
              default: true
    ArtifactsConfig:
      type: object
      description: Knowledge-artifact extraction config.
      properties:
        enabled:
          type: boolean
          default: false
        artifact_model:
          type: string
          x-enum:
            - standard
            - lite
          default: lite
        artifact_types:
          type: array
          maxItems: 32
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ArtifactType'
        edge_types:
          type: array
          maxItems: 32
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/EdgeType'
        min_doc_count:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 64
          default: 1
        max_tokens:
          type: integer
          minimum: 128
          maximum: 8192
          default: 1500
        max_doc_chars:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1000
          maximum: 2000000
          default: 60000
        extraction_window_chars:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 1000000
          default: 0
        mention_max_chars:
          type: integer
          minimum: 100
          maximum: 4000
          default: 400
        max_mentions_per_artifact:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 500
          default: 40
        mention_context_chars:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1000
          maximum: 100000
          default: 8000
        max_artifacts_per_type:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 10000
          default: 10000
    ChunkingConfig:
      type: object
      properties:
        strategy:
          type: string
          x-enum:
            - markdown_heading
            - sliding_window
            - html
            - csv
            - code
          default: markdown_heading
        target_size:
          type: integer
          minimum: 64
          maximum: 4096
          default: 512
        overlap:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 1024
          default: 64
        respect_sections:
          type: boolean
          default: true
    ArtifactType:
      type: object
      required:
        - name
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          maxLength: 64
        kind:
          type: string
          x-enum:
            - summary
            - topic
            - entity
            - event
            - doc
            - page
            - glossary
          default: topic
        scope:
          type: string
          x-enum:
            - document
            - corpus
          default: corpus
        icon:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        coverage:
          type: array
          maxItems: 32
          items:
            type: string
            maxLength: 128
        sections:
          type: array
          maxItems: 64
          items:
            type: string
            maxLength: 128
        min_doc_count:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 64
          default: 1
        format:
          type: string
          x-enum:
            - markdown
            - sqlite
          default: markdown
        columns:
          type: array
          maxItems: 64
          description: sqlite-format artifacts only
          items:
            type: object
            required:
              - name
            properties:
              name:
                type: string
                maxLength: 64
              type:
                type: string
                x-enum:
                  - TEXT
                  - INTEGER
                  - REAL
                  - NUMERIC
                default: TEXT
              description:
                type: string
        natural_key:
          type: array
          maxItems: 16
          items:
            type: string
            maxLength: 64
    EdgeType:
      type: object
      required:
        - name
        - from
        - to
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          maxLength: 64
        from:
          type: string
          maxLength: 64
          description: Source artifact-type name
        to:
          type: string
          maxLength: 64
          description: Target artifact-type name
        description:
          type: string
        attributes:
          type: array
          maxItems: 16
          items:
            type: string
            maxLength: 64
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: Not found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: >-
        Session token from POST /auth/login. Pass as `Authorization: Bearer
        <token>`. The alternative `X-Pinecone-Api-Key` header is also accepted
        for direct-key auth (used by the Nexus CLI on first contact).
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Pinecone-Api-Key
      description: Pinecone API key, accepted as an alternative to the bearer JWT.

````