How to create Assistants without using client side SDK?

[kingsotn-twelve]

this might a dumb question, but is there a way to create an Assistant when I run the LangGraph server without using the SDK's AssistantsClient from the client side?

why:

• I don't currently use Assistants or versioning, so I wanted to use a single Assistant (an instance of my graph) to handle all client side calls. In order to do so I'd like to init it when my server starts, so the client can just do a .search() and then a .get() to start posting threads+runs.

followups:

• is this the "right" way to do this?
• i've considered programatically hitting own langgraph server via sdk at startup, or pre-seed assistants in my docker container during deploy
• Is there a function that I can call on the graph side for this? And are there any technical implications of using a single assistant on the network IO side?

[hinthornw]

You can just use the graph name instead of an assistant UUID for all the relevant calls. Like "client.runs.create("agent", ...)". This is an alias for the initial "system-authored" assistant that is created for each graph (with an empty configuration)

Most people start out by not creating any assistants.

[kingsotn-twelve]

lfg tysm!!