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id: reflect
title: "Reflect and generate answer"
description: "Reflect and formulate an answer using bank identity, world facts, and opinions."
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<MethodEndpoint
  method={"post"}
  path={"/v1/default/banks/{bank_id}/reflect"}
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</MethodEndpoint>



Reflect and formulate an answer using bank identity, world facts, and opinions.

    This endpoint:
    1. Retrieves experience (conversations and events)
    2. Retrieves world facts relevant to the query
    3. Retrieves existing opinions (bank's perspectives)
    4. Uses LLM to formulate a contextual answer
    5. Extracts and stores any new opinions formed
    6. Returns plain text answer, the facts used, and new opinions

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