> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.evermind.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get a topic

> Read one topic's full content. Storage is transparent to the caller: content held inline and content held in object storage are returned the same way.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json get /api/v2/knowledge_bases/{kb_id}/documents/{doc_id}/topics/{topic_id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: EverOS Cloud Memory API
  version: 2.0.0
  license:
    name: Apache-2.0
    identifier: Apache-2.0
  contact:
    name: EverMind AI
    email: service@evermind.ai
    url: https://github.com/EverMind-AI/everos-cloud-sdk-python
  description: >-
    Official Python client for the EverOS Cloud Memory API. Add, search,
    retrieve, and manage long-term memory for your AI applications over a typed
    interface (pydantic v2, with full type hints). Install and usage guides:
    https://github.com/EverMind-AI/everos-cloud-sdk-python
servers:
  - url: https://api.evermind.ai
    description: Production
security:
  - BearerAuth: []
paths:
  /api/v2/knowledge_bases/{kb_id}/documents/{doc_id}/topics/{topic_id}:
    get:
      tags:
        - Knowledge
      summary: Get a topic
      description: >-
        Read one topic's full content. Storage is transparent to the caller:
        content held inline and content held in object storage are returned the
        same way.
      operationId: getTopic
      parameters:
        - name: kb_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            title: Kb Id
        - name: doc_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            title: Doc Id
        - name: topic_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            title: Topic Id
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SuccessEnvelope_TopicDetailData_'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid bearer token.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GatewayError'
        '403':
          description: >-
            Authenticated but not permitted — either rejected by the auth
            service, or the account's memory API version does not match the
            interface version implied by the path (a v1 account calling an
            /api/v2 route).
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GatewayError'
        '404':
          description: Topic absent or not owned by the path kb/document
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
        '429':
          description: Rate limit or quota exceeded.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GatewayError'
        '503':
          description: >-
            The gateway could not reach the authentication service. Transient —
            retry with backoff.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GatewayError'
components:
  schemas:
    SuccessEnvelope_TopicDetailData_:
      properties:
        request_id:
          type: string
          title: Request Id
          description: Request trace id (peer to data)
        data:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TopicDetailData'
          description: Endpoint-defined business result
      type: object
      required:
        - request_id
        - data
      title: SuccessEnvelope[TopicDetailData]
    GatewayError:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: true
      description: >-
        Gateway error body. NOTE: shape is not yet uniform across auth/quota/
        rate-limit paths — treat fields as best-effort. Commonly includes a
        `code`/`message` (flat) or an `error` object/string with a `message`.
      title: GatewayError
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
          description: One entry per field that failed validation.
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError
    TopicDetailData:
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          title: Id
          description: Topic id.
        doc_id:
          type: string
          title: Doc Id
          description: The document this topic was extracted from.
        kb_id:
          type: string
          title: Kb Id
          description: The knowledge base that document belongs to.
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
            - root
            - section
            - element
          title: Type
          description: Structural role of this topic node
        category_id:
          type: string
          title: Category Id
          default: ''
          description: The category the document is filed under; empty when uncategorized.
        category_name:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Category Name
          description: >-
            That category's display name, resolved for you. Null when the
            document is uncategorized or the category no longer exists.
        name:
          type: string
          title: Name
          description: The topic's title.
        depth:
          type: integer
          title: Depth
          default: 0
          description: >-
            Depth in the document tree — 0 is the document root, 1 a top-level
            topic.
        seq:
          type: integer
          title: Seq
          default: 0
          description: >-
            Depth-first position within the document. Use it as an ordering, not
            as an index to compute with.
        summary:
          type: string
          title: Summary
          default: ''
          description: >-
            Retrieval-oriented summary covering this topic and everything under
            it.
        content:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Content
          description: >-
            The topic's full markdown body, restored transparently whether it
            was stored inline or in object storage. Null on the document-root
            node, which has no body.
        labels:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
          title: Labels
          description: Labels attached to the topic during extraction.
        parent_id:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Parent Id
          description: The topic above this one. Null only on the document root.
        children_ids:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
          title: Children Ids
          description: The topics directly beneath this one.
        metadata:
          additionalProperties: true
          type: object
          title: Metadata
          description: Extraction metadata carried alongside the topic.
        tag_ids:
          items:
            type: string
            maxLength: 128
            minLength: 1
            description: Opaque semantic tag id
          type: array
          maxItems: 50
          title: Tag Ids
          description: Opaque final materialized semantic tag ids (maximum 50)
        version:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
          title: Version
          description: Current topic tag CAS version
        created_at:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              format: date-time
            - type: 'null'
          title: Created At
          description: When the topic was extracted.
        updated_at:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              format: date-time
            - type: 'null'
          title: Updated At
          description: When it last changed.
      type: object
      required:
        - id
        - doc_id
        - kb_id
        - type
        - name
        - tag_ids
        - version
      title: TopicDetailData
      description: >-
        Full topic (node), with content transparently restored (inline or from
        S3).
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
          description: Path to the offending field, from the body root.
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
          description: What is wrong with it.
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
          description: Machine-readable validation-error kind.
      type: object
      required:
        - loc
        - msg
        - type
      title: ValidationError
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'API key issued by EverOS, sent as `Authorization: Bearer <api_key>`.'

````