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Required. The session to create a session entity type for. Format: projects/<ProjectID>/locations/<LocationID>/agents/<AgentID>/sessions/<SessionID> or projects/<ProjectID>/locations/<LocationID>/agents/<AgentID>/environments/<EnvironmentID>/sessions/<SessionID>. If Environment ID is not specified, we assume default 'draft' environment.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:
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