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V2

Welcome to the Kaiko Developer Docs — your gateway to building emotionally intelligent AI systems. Kaiko provides an EQ+ layer that bridges LLMs and agents, enabling them to detect emotions, adapt responses, and maintain emotional memory across interactions.

Synapse SDK V2 Now Available

V2 introduces 6 EQ dimensions (intensity, valence, arousal, complexity, wonderIndex, discoveryLevel), trajectory tracking, growth insights, and conversation mode detection. V1 will be sunset on March 31, 2026.

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What You Can Build

With Kaiko V2, you can:

Build empathetic chatbots that adapt tone based on user emotions and intensity levels.

Track emotional trajectories and detect breakthroughs across multi-turn conversations.

Analyze social media sentiment with batch processing for high-throughput pipelines.

Combine LLM generation + emotion inference + EQ dimensions in a single API call.

Detect conversation modes and automatically adjust response strategies.

Quick Start

  1. Get an API Key from the Kaiko Console (format: kaiko_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
  2. Use the V2 base URL: https://api.kaikostudios.xyz/v2
  3. Make your first V2 request:
curl -X POST https://api.kaikostudios.xyz/v2/emotions/analysis \
  -H "x-api-key: $KAIKO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "emotion-v2",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": {"text": "I am so excited about this new project!"}
      }
    ]
  }'

Response:

{
  "object": "emotions.analysis",
  "model": "emotion-v2",
  "emotions": {
    "user": {
      "category": "joy",
      "intensity": 0.85,
      "intensityLevel": "high",
      "valence": 0.78,
      "arousal": 0.82,
      "complexity": "simple",
      "wonderIndex": 0.45,
      "discoveryLevel": "significant"
    }
  }
}

See Quickstart for more examples including chat completions with emotions.

SDKs & Tools

Looking for V1 Documentation?

V1 documentation is available in the Legacy API Reference section. V1 will be sunset on March 31, 2026.