# Conversations & citations
Source: https://nordvec.com/docs/guides/concepts/conversations#conversations-belong-to-a-person

## Conversations belong to a person [#conversations-belong-to-a-person]

A conversation is owned by the signed-in person who started it, so its
endpoints answer to a **session**, never to an API key. A key is its own
principal with no chat history of its own; see
[Authentication](/docs/guides/authentication).

With a session you can:

- **Create** a conversation (`POST /conversations`).
- **List** and **search** your conversations (`GET /conversations`,
  `GET /conversations/search`).
- **Retrieve** a conversation with its recent messages
  (`GET /conversations/{id}`), and page back through older history
  (`GET /conversations/{id}/messages`).
- **List the documents** a conversation has drawn on
  (`GET /conversations/{id}/documents`).

See the [API reference](/docs/api) for the exact request and response shapes.