Create a collection

import Telnyx from 'telnyx';

const client = new Telnyx({
  apiKey: process.env['TELNYX_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

const CollectionEnvelope = await client.ai.collections.create({
  name: 'Support Transcripts',
});

console.log(CollectionEnvelope.data);

import os
from telnyx import Telnyx

client = Telnyx(
    api_key=os.environ.get("TELNYX_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
collection_envelope = client.ai.collections.create(
    name="Support Transcripts",
)
print(collection_envelope.data)

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/team-telnyx/telnyx-go"
	"github.com/team-telnyx/telnyx-go/option"
)

func main() {
	client := telnyx.NewClient(
		option.WithAPIKey("My API Key"),
	)
	collection, err := client.AI.Collections.New(
		context.TODO(),
		telnyx.AICollectionNewParams{
			Name: "Support Transcripts",
		},
	)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	fmt.Printf("%+v\n", collection.Data)
}

package com.telnyx.sdk.example;

import com.telnyx.sdk.client.TelnyxClient;
import com.telnyx.sdk.client.okhttp.TelnyxOkHttpClient;
import com.telnyx.sdk.models.ai.collections.CollectionCreateParams;

public final class Main {
    private Main() {}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        TelnyxClient client = TelnyxOkHttpClient.fromEnv();

        CollectionCreateParams params = CollectionCreateParams.builder()
            .name("Support Transcripts")
            .build();
        var response = client.ai().collections().create(params);
    }
}

require "telnyx"

telnyx = Telnyx::Client.new(api_key: "My API Key")

collection_envelope = telnyx.ai.collections.create(name: "Support Transcripts")

puts(collection_envelope)

<?php

require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Telnyx\Client;
use Telnyx\Core\Exceptions\APIException;

$client = new Client(apiKey: getenv('TELNYX_API_KEY') ?: 'My API Key');

try {
  $collection_envelope = $client->ai->collections->create(
    name: 'Support Transcripts',
  );

  var_dump($collection_envelope);
} catch (APIException $e) {
  echo $e->getMessage();
}

telnyx ai:collections create \
  --api-key 'My API Key' \
  --name 'Support Transcripts'

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.telnyx.com/v2/ai/collections \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "Support Transcripts",
  "description": "All customer support voice transcripts.",
  "slug": "support-transcripts",
  "sources": [
    {
      "source_type": "voice",
      "bucket_id": "policy-docs"
    }
  ],
  "settings": {
    "retrieval": {
      "top_k": 5,
      "retrieval_type": "vector"
    }
  }
}
'

{
  "data": {
    "uuid": "6a09ccbd-8f9b-4c3a-9b0e-2f1d3c4b5a6e",
    "slug": "support-transcripts",
    "record_type": "ai_collection",
    "name": "Support Transcripts",
    "description": "All customer support voice transcripts.",
    "status": "ready",
    "sources": [
      {
        "id": "source_8vkvtcksnawvbnxq48yv2l06wx",
        "record_type": "ai_collection_source",
        "collection_id": "6a09ccbd-8f9b-4c3a-9b0e-2f1d3c4b5a6e",
        "source_type": "voice",
        "bucket_id": "policy-docs",
        "status": "ready"
      }
    ],
    "settings": {
      "record_type": "ai_collection_settings",
      "retrieval": {
        "top_k": 5,
        "retrieval_type": "vector"
      }
    },
    "created_at": "2026-08-04T12:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-04T12:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10015",
      "title": "Bad Request",
      "detail": "The request failed because it was not well-formed.",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/overview/errors/10015"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10009",
      "title": "Authentication failed",
      "detail": "The required authentication headers were either invalid or not included in the request.",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/overview/errors/10009"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "collection_slug_taken",
      "title": "Collection slug already in use",
      "detail": "A collection with slug 'support-transcripts' already exists for this account.",
      "meta": {
        "pointer": "/slug"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "invalid_source_configuration",
      "title": "Invalid source configuration",
      "detail": "The bucket_id field is required when source_type is bucket.",
      "meta": {
        "pointer": "/sources/0/bucket_id"
      }
    }
  ]
}