## TL;DR

Set stream to true when you want tokens streamed back. Multi-round chats reuse the same request shape with the full message history included.

## Steps

1. Call the /v1/chat/completions endpoint with your key in the Authorization Bearer header, the model ID in the model field, and the conversation so far in messages. Set stream to true when you want tokens streamed back. Multi-round chats reuse the same request shape with the full message history included.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Call the /v1/chat/completions endpoint with your key in the Authorization Bearer header, the model ID in the model field, and the conversation so far in messages. Use this skill when you run into "TaskingAI OpenAI-compatible chat path takes model, stream, and messages".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.