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Get a team-scoped issue by number

GET/api/teams/{team_id}/issues/{number}

getTeamIssue

Resolves the `7` in `ENG-7`.

Authentication is not described for this operation in the spec — that does not mean it is public. Check tokens and scopes.

curl

curl -X GET 'https://neosource.dev/api/teams/TEAM_ID/issues/NUMBER'

fetch

fetch("https://neosource.dev/api/teams/TEAM_ID/issues/NUMBER", {
  method: "GET",
});

Path parameters

team_idrequired

string

numberrequired

Team-scoped issue number (the `7` in `ENG-7`).

integerint32

Responses

200Issue

application/json

IssueResponse

object

assignees

array | null

Who this issue is assigned to, resolved to handle + display name. ## Why this is on the list DTO at all, when it used to be forbidden The standing objection was N+1: assignees live in `issue_assignees`, so "serve them on the list" was read as "one query per row". **N+1 is a property of the CALL SHAPE, not of the data.** Assignees for a PAGE of issues are one statement — `WHERE issue_id = ANY($1)` over the ids the listing already selected (`PgIssueStore::assignees_for_issues`) — so the cost is one round trip per page, whatever the page size. The cost of the old answer was paid entirely by the UI: the issue list row had no assignee to render, so its assignee control had no resting value to sit on, so it shipped `sr-only` with `tabindex=-1` and a pointer user could not assign anyone from any list. Four controls were in that state for this one reason. **Serving it here costs the browser NOTHING.** It rides the list response that was already being fetched, so `issues-list.fresh` in `neosource-app/e2e/request-budget/budgets.ts` — asserted by EQUALITY — is unchanged. ## `None` is NOT "unassigned" — and the type says so `None` means this response did not run the enrichment; `Some([])` means it ran and the issue has nobody on it. An `Option` rather than the `Vec` this shipped as for one day, because the flat vec made those two states the same value and something downstream had already started reading the wrong one: the SPA's optimistic label/assignee patch matches its container BY SHAPE (`$lib/queries/issueProperties.ts`), and an always-empty `assignees: []` on the un-enriched detail DTO matched vacuously — so a row-side attach painted the DETAIL cache too, and the settle refetch silently reverted it. Invisible only because `IssueDetailBody` happens to read `labelKeys.issue(id)` instead. `Array.isArray(null)` is false, so the `Option` makes that match unrepresentable rather than unlikely (CLAUDE.md § "Convention → type"). Enrichment is a LIST-route concern: the routes that populate this are the two that render `IssueListRow` — `GET /api/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues` and `GET /api/teams/{team_id}/issues`.

items

IssueAssigneeResponse

object

One assignee, resolved to something renderable. This used to be a bare `account_id` string; a UUID is not a UI, and every consumer would otherwise have to fan out to the account store itself.

account_idrequired

string

display_namerequired

string

handlerequired

string

kindrequired
AccountKind
author_display_name

string | null

author_github_login

string | null

Last-seen GitHub login for authors with a linked GitHub identity (always set for ghosts).

author_handle

string | null

Author fields resolved at read time (route-layer enrichment via the ghost-safe authors projection — plans/github-metadata-import.md §7). `None` on responses that don't enrich (mutation receipts) or when the account row is gone.

author_idrequired

string

author_kind
one of
  • AccountKind

    string

    Rust mirror of the Pg `account_kind` enum (`accounts.kind`). `Ghost` rows are imported-author placeholders (GitHub metadata import, plans/github-metadata-import.md §6): `handle = gh-<github-id>`, `personal_workspace_id` NULL, no password, no sessions. They must never flow through `get_account*` (`AccountRow::into_record` CorruptData-errors on the NULL workspace) — author rendering goes through `PgGithubImportStore::authors_projection`, and claim-by-proof later promotes or merges them.

    "human""bot""service""runner""ghost"

  • null

blockedrequired

boolean

closed_at

integer | nullint64

closed_by

string | null

created_atrequired

integerint64

cycle_id

string | null

The cycle this issue is bound to, or `None` when it is in no cycle. At most one, by construction — `issues.cycle_id` is a single column (ADR 0071), and `PUT /api/issues/{issue_id}/cycle` is the only writer (`SetIssueCycleRequest`, where `cycle_id: null` unbinds). A deliberately OPEN id string like `primary_repo_id` / `team_id` beside it, not a closed enum: the value names a row, not a case. Present on every issue payload because every issue SELECT already reads the column. This doc comment used to end "Assignees and labels are per-issue SUB-RESOURCES and deliberately stay off this DTO for exactly that reason" — the reason being N+1. That was a false dichotomy and it is retracted; see [`IssueResponse::assignees`].

descriptionrequired

string

github_number

integer | nullint32

The GitHub issue number this issue mirrors, when it was imported by GitHub metadata sync (equal to `number` by construction). `None` for native issues — presence IS the provenance signal.

issue_idrequired

string

labels

array | null

Labels attached to this issue, resolved to name + colour. Same batched read, same reasoning, same `None`-vs-`Some([])` rule, and the same two routes as [`IssueResponse::assignees`].

items

LabelResponse

object

colorrequired

string

created_atrequired

integerint64

descriptionrequired

string

label_idrequired

string

namerequired

string

repo_id

string | null

team_id

string | null

numberrequired

integerint32

primary_repo_id

string | null

priorityrequired

IssuePriority

string

Linear-style priority. Stored as the `issue_priority` Postgres enum; surfaces as a domain enum so callers never juggle magic ints.

"none""urgent""high""medium""low"

statusrequired

IssueStatus

string

"backlog""todo""in_progress""in_review""done""cancelled""duplicate"

team_id

string | null

The team a ticket lives on; `null` for a repo issue (one with `primary_repo_id` set). Exactly one of the two is set — the wire mirror of the `issues_kind_xor` CHECK.

titlerequired

string

updated_atrequired

integerint64

403Forbidden — one of: forbidden, needs_scope

application/json

one of
  • ErrorForbidden
  • NeedsScopeError

    object

    `403` body returned when a classic OAuth token is asked for something its granted scopes do not cover — an explicit private listing without `repo`, or the one-click GitHub mirror without `admin:public_key`. `scope` names the missing grant so the client can say exactly what the token lacks. There is no elevation route to widen it any more (a re-link goes through the GitHub App, whose tokens carry no scopes), so the client's answer is to say so, never to start a handshake.

    errorrequired

    string

    Always `needs_scope` — this body exists to carry the extra fields that kind needs.

    "needs_scope"

    scoperequired

    string

    The provider scope to request via elevation (e.g. `"repo"`).

Standard errors

Bodies documented once for the whole API — see standard errors.

  • 400Bad Request — one of: invalid_input
  • 404Not Found — one of: not_found
  • 429Rate limited — retry after the `Retry-After` header
  • 500Internal server error
  • 503Service temporarily unavailable / at capacity — retry after the `Retry-After` header
  • 504Gateway timeout — the request exceeded the server's handling budget

Schemas

Referenced above. Listed here rather than expanded inline, so the same definition is not repeated at every level.

AccountKind

string

Rust mirror of the Pg `account_kind` enum (`accounts.kind`). `Ghost` rows are imported-author placeholders (GitHub metadata import, plans/github-metadata-import.md §6): `handle = gh-<github-id>`, `personal_workspace_id` NULL, no password, no sessions. They must never flow through `get_account*` (`AccountRow::into_record` CorruptData-errors on the NULL workspace) — author rendering goes through `PgGithubImportStore::authors_projection`, and claim-by-proof later promotes or merges them.

"human""bot""service""runner""ghost"