> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.case.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create native Linc session

> Creates a Daytona-backed native Linc session with scoped Case.dev credentials. This endpoint starts the sandbox actor only; messages and event replay use separate endpoints.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json post /linc/v1/sessions
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Case.dev API
  description: >-
    The AI-native platform for legal technology. Build smarter legal
    applications with our suite of AI-powered APIs.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Case.dev Support
    email: support@casemark.com
    url: https://case.dev
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://case.dev/terms
servers:
  - url: https://api.case.dev
    description: Production
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Vaults
    description: Secure document storage with semantic search and GraphRAG
  - name: Memory
    description: >-
      Persistent memory for AI agents with semantic search and 12 generic
      indexed tag fields
  - name: OCR
    description: Extract text from PDFs, images, and scanned documents
  - name: Voice
    description: Audio transcription and text-to-speech
  - name: LLMs
    description: Access 40+ language models through a unified API
  - name: Search
    description: Web search, AI answers, and deep research
  - name: Mail
    description: Managed inboxes for agent email workflows
  - name: Media
    description: Transcript retrieval and captioned media clip generation
  - name: Legal
    description: Legal research tools including citation verification
  - name: Privilege
    description: Privilege detection for e-discovery and litigation workflows
  - name: Compute
    description: Serverless GPU and CPU infrastructure
  - name: Format
    description: Document formatting and template rendering (MD/JSON to PDF/DOCX)
  - name: SuperDoc
    description: Document conversion and template automation
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Webhook endpoint management
  - name: System
    description: Public system metadata and discovery endpoints
  - name: Usage
    description: Usage reporting and webhook subscriptions
  - name: Database
    description: Serverless PostgreSQL databases with instant branching
  - name: Translation
    description: Language detection and translation for multilingual legal workflows
  - name: Skills
    description: Search and read legal AI skills for agents
  - name: Agents
    description: >-
      Create, manage, and execute AI agents with tool access, sandbox
      environments, and async run workflows
  - name: Matters
    description: Matter-native legal workspaces and orchestration primitives
  - name: Applications Projects
    description: Web application project management
  - name: Applications Deployments
    description: Web application deployment management
  - name: Applications Domains
    description: Custom domain configuration for applications
  - name: Applications Env Vars
    description: Environment variable management for applications
paths:
  /linc/v1/sessions:
    post:
      tags:
        - Agents
      summary: Create native Linc session
      description: >-
        Creates a Daytona-backed native Linc session with scoped Case.dev
        credentials. This endpoint starts the sandbox actor only; messages and
        event replay use separate endpoints.
      operationId: createLincSessionV1
      requestBody:
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                title:
                  type: string
                model:
                  type: string
                  nullable: true
                idleTimeoutMs:
                  type: integer
                  nullable: true
                vaultIds:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
                  nullable: true
                scopedApiKey:
                  type: string
                  nullable: true
                  description: >-
                    Optional caller-provided scoped Case.dev API key for the
                    runtime.
                instructions:
                  type: string
                  nullable: true
                  description: >-
                    Privileged C3-only hidden app instructions to append to the
                    sandbox AGENTS.md.
                skillSlugs:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
                  nullable: true
                  description: >-
                    Skills API slugs to install into the runtime sandbox before
                    the native session starts.
                includeDocumentTemplates:
                  type: boolean
                  nullable: true
                  description: >-
                    When true, inject all active org document templates into the
                    using-document-templates skill.
                documentTemplateSlugs:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
                  nullable: true
                  description: >-
                    Specific document template slugs to inject into the
                    using-document-templates skill.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Linc session created
        '202':
          description: >-
            Linc session is provisioning. When skillSlugs were requested,
            `skills` reports exactly what will be preinstalled into the sandbox
            (loaded) and which slugs did not resolve in the skills registry
            (missing).
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  id:
                    type: string
                  status:
                    type: string
                  skills:
                    type: object
                    nullable: true
                    description: >-
                      Present when skillSlugs were requested: the skill
                      preinstall report.
                    properties:
                      requested:
                        type: array
                        items:
                          type: string
                      loaded:
                        type: array
                        items:
                          type: object
                          properties:
                            slug:
                              type: string
                            source:
                              type: string
                              enum:
                                - custom
                                - curated
                            fileCount:
                              type: integer
                      missing:
                        type: array
                        items:
                          type: string
        '400':
          description: Invalid payload
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  statusCode:
                    type: integer
                  statusMessage:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
        '401':
          description: Invalid API key
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  statusCode:
                    type: integer
                  statusMessage:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
        '403':
          description: No agent access or Linc runtime disabled
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  statusCode:
                    type: integer
                  statusMessage:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
        '404':
          description: Vault not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  statusCode:
                    type: integer
                  statusMessage:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
        '422':
          description: >-
            None of the requested skillSlugs resolved in the skills registry
            (custom or curated)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  statusCode:
                    type: integer
                  statusMessage:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
components:
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API Key
      description: API key starting with `sk_case_`

````