# GET /api/v2/subtasks/{subtask}

Read a subtask

- MCP id: subtasks.show
- Scope: api:read:project_management
- Permission: project_management::view_backlog
- Rate cost: 1 unit, read bucket.
- Cache-Control: private, no-store

Returns one checklist subtask in the detail view, including its rich-text `description`.

Subtasks are hard-deleted, so a deleted one is simply 404 and `trashed` is not an accepted parameter. Reading additionally requires `project_management::manage_work_items` on the parent work item.

## Parameters
- subtask (integer, path): The Subtask's numeric id.
- view (string, optional): Which field set to render.
- X-Request-Id (header, optional): A correlation id of your own. It is recorded in our logs next to the server's request id but never returned: the response header always carries the server's id. A value that does not match the pattern is discarded silently, never rejected.
- If-None-Match (header, optional): The ETag a read is conditional on. A match is answered 304 with no body.

## Response 200
- id (integer, required): Unique identifier.
- work_item_id (integer, required, server-assigned): The work item whose checklist this subtask belongs to. Taken from the path on create and not writable.
- title (string ≤ 255, required): Subtask title, as shown on the checklist row. This is the field `?q=` searches.
- description (html or null, required, detail only): Optional note on the subtask. HTML from the rich editor, sanitised on read and on write. Null when the subtask is just a title.
- is_resolved (boolean, required): Whether the subtask is ticked off.
- order (integer, required, server-assigned): Position in the work item's checklist. Assigned on create as the next position in that checklist, changed only by dragging in plnnrly, and not writable.
- created_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): Creation timestamp.
- updated_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): Last-write timestamp; use for incremental sync.
- work_item (Ref or WorkItemSummary, required): The work item this subtask hangs off.
- links (SubtaskLinks, required)
  - self (url, required): The canonical URI of this record.

## Errors
- 403 forbidden-by-policy | insufficient-permission | insufficient-token-scope: Forbidden.
- 304 : Not modified.
- 400 idempotency-key-required | invalid-cursor | invalid-query-parameter | malformed-request | unsupported-parameter: Bad request.
- 401 token-expired | unauthenticated: Unauthenticated.
- 404 endpoint-not-found | resource-not-found: Not found.
- 406 not-acceptable: Not acceptable.
- 429 rate-limit-exceeded: Too many requests.
- 500 internal-error: Server error.
- 503 tenant-unavailable: Service unavailable.

## Example
```bash
curl -G \
  'https://<your-url>/api/v2/subtasks/1' \
  --data-urlencode 'include=work_item' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'
```