OutputMessageItem Type | OpenRouter TypeScript SDK | OpenRouter

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An output message item

Example Usage

1 import { OutputMessageItem } from "@openrouter/sdk/models";
2 
3 let value: OutputMessageItem = {
4   content: [
5     {
6       text: "Hello! How can I help you today?",
7       type: "output_text",
8     },
9   ],
10   id: "msg-abc123",
11   role: "assistant",
12   type: "message",
13 };

Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
`content`	models.OutputMessageItemContent[]	✔️	N/A
`id`	string	✔️	N/A
`phase`	models.OutputMessageItemPhaseUnion	➖	The phase of an assistant message. Use `commentary` for an intermediate assistant message and `final_answer` for the final assistant message. For follow-up requests with models like `gpt-5.3-codex` and later, preserve and resend phase on all assistant messages. Omitting it can degrade performance. Not used for user messages.
`role`	models.OutputMessageItemRole	✔️	N/A
`status`	models.OutputMessageItemStatusUnion	➖	N/A
`type`	”message”	✔️	N/A