# Read conversation messages

GET

/v1/conversations/{conversationId}/messages

```sh
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://example.com/v1/conversations/2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0/messages?limit=25' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

Cursor-paginated. Sort is `sequence asc` (natural conversation reading order) — distinct from most list endpoints, which use `createdAt desc`.

## Authorizations

- **[bearerAuth](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.4.0/reference/api.md#bearerauth)**

## Parameters

### Path Parameters

**conversationId**

required

string format: uuid

ConversationId — opaque branded string (a UUID).

### Query Parameters

**limit**

integer

default: 25 >= 1 <= 100

1..100. Default 25.

**cursor**

string

Where the previous page ended: its `nextCursor`, as it came. A runtime that seals cursors takes one only for the same list, filters and caller, within a day; otherwise `400 bad-input`, and the list starts again without it. Absent → first page.

## Responses

### 200

Page of messages.

application/json

object

**data**

required

Array\<object>

object

**sequence**

required

Monotonic index within the conversation. Sort order for the list endpoint.

integer

**role**

required

string

Allowed values: user agent tool system

**content**

required

Free-form string OR a structured object (tool results).

**files**

Stored files the message carries, on a user message (its run’s input files) or a tool’s result: references, never bytes. A later turn shows its model each one the run’s rule still admits, and a line for one that’s gone.

Array\<object>

A stored file as a value: in a run’s input, a tool’s result or a conversation message. Only `artifactId` is trusted: the runtime shows a model a file by its own checked record of it, never by the value’s other fields. A message’s files are the ones its run admitted, with the record’s fields.

object

**type**

required

string

Allowed value: kindgi.file

**artifactId**

required

The stored file (`POST /v1/artifacts`): its `blobId`.

string

\>= 1 characters

**name**

The file’s name.

string

**contentType**

required

Its type, as checked from its bytes.

string

**size**

required

Its size in bytes.

integer

**sha256**

required

Sha256 of its bytes, hex-encoded, lowercase.

string

/^\[0-9a-f]{64}$/

**pages**

A PDF’s page count, as checked from its bytes.

integer

\>= 1

**notShown**

Set when the model isn’t shown it, and reads a line naming it instead: `type` (not a type a model is shown), `size` (over its type’s limit), `model` (the agent or its model doesn’t take images and PDFs), `limit` (over a call’s or a list’s limits), `store` (no file store), `gone` (no longer stored), `changed` (not the bytes that were checked), `refused` (the model couldn’t read it when it was attached), `storage` (a tool’s store found the tenant’s storage full), `reading` (what the model is sent in its place, an image or a text made from it, isn’t made yet).

string

Allowed values: type size model limit store gone changed refused storage reading

**toolCall**

object

**toolId**

required

string

**invocationId**

required

string

**actor**

string

**createdAt**

required

string format: date-time

**nextCursor**

Opaque cursor for the next page. Absent when `hasMore: false`. Sort is `sequence asc`.

string

**hasMore**

required

boolean

##### Example

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "files": [
        {
          "type": "kindgi.file",
          "notShown": "type"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

### 400

Malformed cursor, or `conversationId` is not a conversation id (a UUID).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 401

Missing / malformed / expired / revoked bearer token.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 404

No conversation with that id under this tenant, or one the caller can’t read (`read` on its project, or on its agent for one from before projects): the same answer, byte for byte.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 503

The database was too busy to answer in time (`database-busy`); `Retry-After` (whole seconds) says when to try again.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

## See also

- [`GET /v1/conversations/{conversationId}`: Fetch a conversation](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.4.0/reference/api/operations/conversationsget.md)
- [`POST /v1/conversations/{conversationId}/close`: Close a conversation](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.4.0/reference/api/operations/conversationsclose.md)
- [`POST /v1/conversations/{conversationId}/unregister`: Unregister a conversation](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.4.0/reference/api/operations/conversationsunregister.md)
- [Kindgi 0.4.0](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.4.0/releases/0.4.0.md)
- [Error code `database-busy`](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.4.0/reference/errors.md#database-busy)
- [Every error code](https://docs.kindgi.com/v0.4.0/reference/errors.md)