---
title: "Read a description page"
method: GET
path: "/task/{id}/description"
tags: ["Tasks"]
---

# Read a description page

`GET /task/{id}/description`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://cloud.kaneo.app/api`
- URL: `https://cloud.kaneo.app/api/task/{id}/description`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `offset` integer
- `version` string

## Response `200`

Description page

- TaskDescriptionPage
  - `content` string, required
  - `version` string, required
  - `nextOffset` number, nullable, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid offset or version
- `401`: Missing or invalid credentials
- `403`: No access to the project, or missing read permission
- `404`: Task not found
- `409`: Description changed; reload from offset zero
- `429`: The API key exceeded its rate limit or usage quota. Wait the number of seconds in Retry-After before retrying. The X-RateLimit headers are sent only when the rate limit was hit.
- `503`: Description request timed out

## Changes

- **2026-10-08** `c7b8a842601b`: 6 breaking, 7 info
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `403`
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `404`
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `409`
  - …9 more
- **2026-10-08** `2ed51b8af657`: 6 breaking, 6 info
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `400`
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `401`
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `403`
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `404`
  - …8 more
- **2026-10-07** `df1439c724ee`: 5 breaking, 6 info
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `403`
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `404`
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `409`
  - …7 more
- …earlier changes not shown

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/usekaneo/apis/kaneo-api/changes/task/:id/description/get.md)

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/usekaneo/apis/kaneo-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/usekaneo/apis/kaneo-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/usekaneo/apis/kaneo-api/revisions/93f78789100c?raw)