documents.read

Read a ThinkBench document and return its current content as Markdown.

GET /api/v1/documents/{documentId}

Input

Field	Type	In	Description
`documentId`	`string`	path	The document's id, from its URL or a listing.

Output

Field	Type	Description
`item`	DriveItem
`markdown`	`string`
`prosemirrorDoc`	`unknown`
`authors`	`object[]`	Who edited this most recently.

Examples

curl

curl "https://app.thinkbench.com/api/v1/documents/<documentId>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $THINKBENCH_API_KEY"

TypeScript SDK

const result = await tb.documents.read({ documentId: "<documentId>" });

CLI

thinkbench documents read --document-id "<documentId>"

MCP

{
  "name": "documents_read",
  "arguments": {
    "documentId": "<documentId>"
  }
}

Notes

The markdown and prosemirrorDoc projections come from one live snapshot of the collaborative document, so they always agree — and both include edits other people (or agents) are making right now, before they're saved to version history.

To pull just the Markdown from the CLI:

npx thinkbench documents read --document-id "<documentId>" --pick markdown