upload_asset
Upload Asset
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Upload a binary asset (image, font, audio, …) to the project's hosted storage. This uploads bytes you actually hold — a file you generated, downloaded, or read yourself. Chat attachments don't qualify: the user's attachments never reach MCP servers (you see attached images through vision only; there is no file, id, or URL behind them you can read), so for those use request_user_upload instead and the user re-picks the file in a card that uploads from their browser. Three modes. ChatGPT conversation files — a generated image, a file ChatGPT itself holds: pass the file as the file parameter and the host attaches a download link itself; this server fetches the bytes directly, at full quality (nothing goes through your sandbox or through base64 in arguments; content_type and size_bytes are optional here). Never downscale or re-encode a generated image to fit the inline cap — pass it as file instead. Files up to 3 MB you hold yourself — pass content_base64 plus size_bytes (the decoded byte count) and the upload completes in this call, returning publicUrl. Larger files — pass size_bytes alone to get an uploadUrl; PUT the raw bytes to it with the same content_type and exact byte count (e.g. curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: image/png' --data-binary @file.png '<uploadUrl>'), then reference publicUrl. Some sandboxes (claude.ai Cowork, ChatGPT containers) block egress to S3: if the PUT fails in any way — connection failure, proxy error, or a response without an x-amz-request-id header — that block is permanent for the session, so switch paths instead of retrying or re-encoding smaller: the file parameter in ChatGPT for any file that exists in this conversation, content_base64 for files under 3 MB, request_user_upload for user-provided files, or a PUT from inside the project VM via run_code_in_vm (re-mint the URL first; it is short-lived). For AI imagery generated fresh, use generate_image. A single file can be at most 100 MB via the presigned mode (the inline content_base64 mode is capped at 3 MB).
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| projectId | string | yes | |
| file_name | string | yes | |
| content_type | string | no | Required unless `file` is set (in that mode the type is derived from the downloaded bytes; pass this only as a hint). |
| size_bytes | integer | no | Required unless `file` is set. Exact byte count of the file, as measured from the file itself (e.g. stat/ls -l). With content_base64 it must equal the decoded length; in presigned mode the PUT must send exactly this many bytes. |
| content_base64 | string | no | The file's bytes, base64-encoded (≤3 MB decoded). When set, the upload completes in this call. |
| file | object | no | ChatGPT only: a file from this conversation (e.g. a generated image). The ChatGPT host fills download_url/file_id when you reference the file; the values are host-issued and cannot be constructed by hand — on clients without file-parameter support, leave this unset and use the other modes. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"projectId": {
"type": "string"
},
"file_name": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9._-]{0,80}\\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,10}$"
},
"content_type": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 3,
"maxLength": 100,
"description": "Required unless `file` is set (in that mode the type is derived from the downloaded bytes; pass this only as a hint)."
},
"size_bytes": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Required unless `file` is set. Exact byte count of the file, as measured from the file itself (e.g. stat/ls -l). With content_base64 it must equal the decoded length; in presigned mode the PUT must send exactly this many bytes."
},
"content_base64": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"description": "The file's bytes, base64-encoded (≤3 MB decoded). When set, the upload completes in this call."
},
"file": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"download_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"file_id": {
"type": "string"
},
"mime_type": {
"type": "string"
},
"file_name": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "ChatGPT only: a file from this conversation (e.g. a generated image). The ChatGPT host fills download_url/file_id when you reference the file; the values are host-issued and cannot be constructed by hand — on clients without file-parameter support, leave this unset and use the other modes."
}
},
"required": [
"projectId",
"file_name"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}