# Amazon Connect Customer agent workspace Message Template API
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The Amazon Connect SDK provides a `MessageTemplateClient` which serves as an interface that you can use to make requests to search and get content from your Amazon Connect Message Template Knowledge Base.

The `MessageTemplateClient` accepts an optional constructor argument, ` ConnectClientConfig` which itself is defined as:

```
export type ConnectClientConfig = {  
    context?: ModuleContext;  
    provider?: AmazonConnectProvider;
};
```

If you do not provide a value for this config, then the client will default to using the ** AmazonConnectProvider** set in the global provider scope. You can also manually configure this using **setGlobalProvider**.

You can instantiate the agent client as follows:

```
import { MessageTemplateClient } from "@amazon-connect/message-template";

const messageTemplateClient = new MessageTemplateClient({ provider });
```

**Note**  
You must first instantiate the [ AmazonConnectApp](getting-started-initialize-sdk.md) which initializes the default AmazonConnectProvider and returns ` { provider } `. This is the recommended option.

Alternatively, providing a constructor argument:

```
import { MessageTemplateClient } from "@amazon-connect/message-template";
            
const messageTemplateClient = new MessageTemplateClient({
    context: sampleContext,  
    provider: sampleProvider
});
```

**Note**  
Third-party applications must be configured with \$1 permission in order to utilize the MessageTemplateClient APIs.

The following sections describe API calls for working with the MessageTemplate API.

**Topics**
+ [getContent()](3P-apps-message-template-requests-getcontent.md)
+ [isEnabled()](3P-apps-message-template-requests-isenabled.md)
+ [searchMessageTemplates()](3P-apps-message-template-requests-searchmessagetemplates.md)