Lab 01: inspect an API answer

Prerequisites: verified installation, a lab API key, and WSL Bash. Artifact: a short table of observed status codes and response fields.

Exercise

1. Request /health without authentication and record the response fields.
2. Follow Your first query exactly, including the non-secret user_id.
3. Record model, whether response is nonempty, and whether sources contains anything.
4. Repeat the query with the Authorization header omitted. Record the rejection; do not paste your credential into notes.
5. Explain why a successful health response is insufficient proof that inference works.

Acceptance criteria

• The authenticated request returns a nonempty answer.
• The unauthenticated query is rejected.
• Your notes distinguish service reachability, authentication, and generation.
• You explain why an empty knowledge store can produce no sources.

If results differ

Use the status-code reference and troubleshooting. A slow model is not necessarily a failed HTTP connection.

Finish

Unset your terminal API_KEY when done. If memory is enabled, follow the conversation deletion limitations before claiming the exercise left no stored data.

Next: Lab 02: routing.