---
title: "Get Requirement Downvote"
method: GET
path: "/marketing/guidelines/requirements/{requirement_id}/downvote"
tags: ["marketing-guidelines"]
---

# Get Requirement Downvote

`GET /marketing/guidelines/requirements/{requirement_id}/downvote`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.kobaltlabs.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.kobaltlabs.com/marketing/guidelines/requirements/{requirement_id}/downvote`
- Auth: none declared

Whether this reviewer has downvoted the requirement, and how many unique votes it has.

Fetched when the source dialog opens rather than on the citations payload: those citations are
cached for the session because a finished run's checks never change, and a vote is not a check.

## Path parameters

- `requirement_id` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- RequirementDownvoteStatus: How this requirement currently stands for the calling reviewer. A vote changes nothing about the rule, so nothing here reports a state change: `live_state` is whatever the library says, and it only ever moves because a person moved it.
  - `requirement_id` string, uuid, required
  - `downvote_count` integer, required
  - `downvoted_by_me` boolean, required
  - `live_state` 'active' | 'disabled' | 'archived' | 'superseded' | 'proposed', required: Whether a requirement is in the working library, and if not, why not. All of them are recorded as revisions, so every one is reversible and readable. ARCHIVED and SUPERSEDED are deliberately distinct: ARCHIVED is a person deciding this obligation does not apply to them, SUPERSEDED is a newer decomposition of the same guideline taking over. A regeneration must never overwrite the first with the second — that would erase a human decision.

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-09-02** `425d5b8a3c17`: 1 warning
  - added the new `proposed` enum value to the `live_state` response property for the response status `200`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/kobaltlabs/apis/fastapi/changes/marketing/guidelines/requirements/:requirement_id/downvote/get.md)

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