---
title: "Get notification"
method: GET
path: "/api/notifications/{sid}"
tags: ["notifications"]
---

# Get notification

`GET /api/notifications/{sid}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://beta.getsales.io/id/v1`
- URL: `https://beta.getsales.io/id/v1/api/notifications/{sid}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer and API key in header `Team-SID`

One notification by sid with its rendered subject and bodies, delivery state and failure reason. Another workspace's row is 403 wrong_team.

Contract:
- MCP tool `get_notification`, registry package `mcp.id/notifications`, mount `id.notifications`.
- Operation `get`, response envelope `get`.
- Flags: read only.

## Path parameters

- `sid` string, required: Notification sid (id_nt_...).

## Response `200`

`get` success envelope.

- GetNotificationResponse
  - `success` true, required
  - `operation` 'get', required
  - `item` object, required
    - `sid` string, required: Notification sid (id_nt_...).
    - `team_sid` string, required: The workspace the notice is about (ts_tm_...).
    - `user_sid` string, nullable, required: The recipient (us_mb_...); null for a cold address (an invite).
    - `event_name` string, required: The domain event that produced it (team-members.invited, ssl-certificates.expiring, ...).
    - `event_sid` string, required: The event instance; two channels of one event share it.
    - `entity_sid` string, nullable, required: The row the notice is about (a site, a person, a certificate); null when none.
    - `channel` 'email' | 'in_app', required: email = sent through SendGrid; in_app = a line of the bell feed.
    - `status` 'pending' | 'delivered' | 'failed', required: pending = not sent yet; delivered; failed (see failure_reason). An in_app row is delivered at insert.
    - `subject` string, required: The subject, or the feed line.
    - `body_html` string: The rendered HTML body (get only).
    - `body_text` string: The rendered text body (get only).
    - `rate_limit_bucket` string, required: The dedup bucket: event, entity, hour and channel.
    - `scheduled_at` string, required: ISO 8601 UTC when the delivery was due.
    - `delivered_at` string, nullable, required: ISO 8601 UTC; null until delivered.
    - `read_at` string, nullable, required: ISO 8601 UTC when the recipient read an in_app row; null = unread, and always null on an email.
    - `failed_at` string, nullable, required: ISO 8601 UTC; null unless failed.
    - `failure_reason` string, nullable, required: Why the delivery failed (delivery_not_configured, a provider error); null otherwise.
    - `retry_count` integer, required: Delivery attempts so far (up to 5).
    - `created_by` object, required: The actor behind the event, usually system.
      - `actor_type` 'user' | 'support' | 'api_key' | 'system' | 'agent', required
      - `actor_sid` string, nullable, required
      - `team_sid` string, required
      - `actor_name` string, nullable: The OAuth client that acted ("Claude", "n8n"); null for a user, an API key or a system job.
      - `oauth_client_sid` string, nullable: The acting OAuth client (id_oc_*); null off the OAuth path.
      - `reason` string, nullable: Why a system actor wrote the row (snapshot_capture_job, ...); null otherwise.
      - `permissions` object, required: Internal audit context: the grant set the actor held at write time. Not a contract.
      - `cluster_id` integer, nullable: Internal audit context: the cluster that served the write.
      - `trace_id` string, nullable: Internal audit context: the trace id of the request that wrote the row.
    - `created_at` string, required: ISO 8601 UTC.
    - `updated_at` string, required: ISO 8601 UTC.
    - `deleted_at` string, nullable, required: ISO 8601 UTC when the recipient dismissed it; null = in the feed.
  - `included` object, required
  - `includes` string[], required
  - `meta` object, required
    - `trace_id` string, required: UUID v7; same 128-bit value as the X-Trace-Id header.
    - `span_id` string, required: 16 hex chars, root span of this request.
    - `timestamp` string, required: ISO 8601 UTC (Y-m-dTH:i:sZ), response time.
    - `duration_ms` integer, required: Server-side wall clock.
    - `team_sid` string, nullable: The team this call ran in (the token team, or the team_sid override). Null when unauthenticated; absent from pre-2026-08-20 backends.
    - `actor_type` string, nullable: user | agent | api_key | system. Null when unauthenticated; absent from pre-2026-08-20 backends.

## Other responses

- `4XX`: MCP error envelope. `error.code` is one of validation_failed, nothing_to_update, not_found, relation_not_found, invalid_transition, limit_exceeded, payment_required, duplicate_rejected, conflict, delete_blocked, unauthorized, forbidden, rate_limited, not_implemented.
- `5XX`: MCP error envelope with `error.code` internal_error or service_unavailable.

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