# Get a knowledge document

Return a knowledge document with its content and active agent dependencies.

## Endpoint

`GET /api/v1/workspaces/{workspace_id}/knowledge/{document_id}`

## Authentication

| Class | Authentication | Minimum role | API key |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| dashboard-session-api | Dashboard session cookie; mutations also require X-CX-Request: 1. | member | Not allowed |

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `workspace_id` | path | `string` | Yes | — |
| `document_id` | path | `string` | Yes | — |

## Request body

This operation has no request body.

## Example

```bash
curl --request GET 'https://operade.ai/api/v1/workspaces/ws_demo/knowledge/doc_demo' \
  --cookie 'cx_session=YOUR_SESSION_COOKIE'
```

## Responses

| Status | Description | Content |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 4XX | Handled client error | application/json: `ErrorResponse` |
| 200 | Successful Response | application/json: `KnowledgeDocumentDetailResponse` |

### 4XX application/json response schema

| Field path | Type | Reference | Format | Nullable | Required | Enum | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `$` | `object` | ErrorResponse | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `error` | `object` | ErrorItem | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `error.code` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `error.details` | `object` | — | — | No | No | — | — |
| `error.message` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |

### 200 application/json response schema

| Field path | Type | Reference | Format | Nullable | Required | Enum | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `$` | `object` | KnowledgeDocumentDetailResponse | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `byte_size` | `integer` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `chunk_count` | `integer` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `content` | `string or null` | — | — | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| `created_at` | `string` | — | date-time | No | Yes | — | — |
| `created_by` | `object` | KnowledgeCreator | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `created_by.email` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `created_by.id` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `created_by.name` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `dependent_agents` | `array<KnowledgeDependentAgent>` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `dependent_agents[]` | `object` | KnowledgeDependentAgent | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `dependent_agents[].id` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `dependent_agents[].name` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `error` | `string or null` | — | — | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| `folder_id` | `string or null` | — | — | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| `id` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `indexed_at` | `string or null` | — | date-time | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| `name` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | — | — |
| `source_url` | `string or null` | — | — | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| `status` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | "pending", "indexing", "ready", "failed" | — |
| `type` | `string` | — | — | No | Yes | "text", "file", "url" | — |
| `updated_at` | `string` | — | date-time | No | Yes | — | — |

### Response example

```json
{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "type": "text",
  "status": "pending",
  "error": "string",
  "byte_size": 0,
  "chunk_count": 0,
  "created_by": {
    "id": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "email": "string"
  },
  "created_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "indexed_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "source_url": "string",
  "folder_id": "string",
  "content": "string",
  "dependent_agents": []
}
```

## Errors

Reviewed common and route-declared errors are summarized here; the list is not exhaustive. Start with the [distributed error index](/docs/reference/api/errors) to find each code's canonical domain page.

| Status | Code | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 401 | `unauthenticated` | Authentication is missing, invalid, or revoked. |
| 403 | `forbidden` | The authenticated caller does not have access to this operation. |
| 404 | `not_found` | The requested workspace resource was not found. |

## Related operations

- [Create a knowledge folder](/docs/api-reference/knowledge/create-knowledge-folder) — `POST /api/v1/workspaces/{workspace_id}/knowledge/folders`
- [Create a text document](/docs/api-reference/knowledge/create-knowledge-text) — `POST /api/v1/workspaces/{workspace_id}/knowledge/text`
- [Delete a knowledge document](/docs/api-reference/knowledge/delete-knowledge-document) — `DELETE /api/v1/workspaces/{workspace_id}/knowledge/{document_id}`