# List categories

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/help/get-help-categories

> Returns the knowledge-base sections for the public center's navigation — but ONLY the sections that front at least one Published, public article, so an internal (agent-only) category name or description never leaks.

`GET /v1/help/categories`

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|               |                                           |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/help/categories` |
| **Method**    | `GET`                                     |
| **Operation** | `get_help_categories`                     |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`    |

Returns the knowledge-base sections for the public center's
navigation — but ONLY the sections that front at least one Published, public
article, so an internal (agent-only) category name or description never leaks. A
section with no public article is invisible; a center with no public articles has
no sections, which is an empty list rather than an error — as is a center that
has not installed the Help model.

## Request

`GET /v1/help/categories` takes no parameters and no body — the credential is the whole request.

## Response

| Status    | Body                  | Meaning |
| --------- | --------------------- | ------- |
| `200`     | help.helpCategoryList | ok      |
| `default` | problem-details       | refused |

`200` body — 3 fields.

| Field                | In   | Type                 | Always | Description                                                              |
| -------------------- | ---- | -------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `data`               | body | help.helpCategory\[] | —      | Data is the sections that front at least one public article.             |
| `data[].description` | body | string               | —      | Description is the section's blurb, or empty.                            |
| `data[].name`        | body | string               | —      | Name is the section's name, and the value an article's category matches. |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo help categories
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, HelpApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new HelpApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.getHelpCategories();
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import HelpApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = HelpApi(client).get_help_categories()
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.HelpAPI.GetHelpCategories(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, help_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = help_api::get_help_categories(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.HelpApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new HelpApi(client).getHelpCategories();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/help/categories \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY"
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **help** through the `help` tool, which names its 4 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_help_articles"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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