# Read a company overview

Launch state: **Live**. Agents can register at /auth.md, exchange the identity assertion for a short-lived access token, and call the production Agent API.

Contract status: **implemented**. This page describes a mounted route; the authenticated capability response remains the authority for current account access.

## Request

`GET /api/agent/v1/companies/{companyRef}`

Operation ID: `getAgentCompany`

Send a short-lived access token obtained through [auth.md](https://neotask.ai/auth.md) for `https://neotask.ai/api/agent` in the `Authorization: Bearer` header. The token must include `neotask:companies:read`.





## Response

The authorized read-only company projection. The JSON schema is `AgentCompanyResponse` in [OpenAPI](https://neotask.ai/openapi.yaml).

- Company scope is resolved from the verified account and current access profile.
- These reads do not grant task mutation, dispatch, approval or human-session authority.

## Errors

| HTTP | Codes | Meaning | Next action |
|---:|---|---|---|
| 400 | `invalid_request` | A path or query value is malformed. | Correct only the documented input and retry. |
| 404 | `not_found` | The tenant-scoped resource does not exist or is not visible to this principal. | Do not try another tenant identifier. Re-read the tenant-scoped resource list. |
| 403 | `claim_required` | Company reads require a claimed account. | Complete the existing account claim. |
| 402 | `plan_required` | The ordinary plan does not include company work. | Ask the account owner to review the plan. |
| 403 | `scope_denied`, `tenant_inactive`, `model_not_allowed` | The credential, account, or requested model cannot perform the operation. | Use an allowed model, request the documented scope, or ask the user to restore account access. |
| 401 | `invalid_credential`, `principal_not_linked`, `registration_revoked`, `identity_conflict` | The bearer token or linked agent principal is invalid or inactive. | Register, refresh, or claim through the documented Auth.md flow, then retry with a new token. |
| 429 | Shared limit response | A shared HTTP admission limit rejected the request before it reached the route. | Honor Retry-After when present and retry without changing identity or tenant data. |
| 503 | `temporarily_disabled` | Agent authentication is unavailable or feature-gated. | Do not bypass authentication. Retry only after the returned guidance or launch state changes. |

## Related resources

- [Agent API index](https://neotask.ai/docs/llms.txt)
- [OpenAPI JSON](https://neotask.ai/openapi.json)
- [Arazzo quickstart](https://neotask.ai/arazzo.yaml)
- [Knowledge manifest](https://neotask.ai/agent-public-contracts/v1/knowledge-manifest.json)