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# Retrieve an Aria Agent Cloud Session by ID

> Retrieve an Aria Agent Cloud session by identifier, returning its bound agent, status, metadata, and counts of turns and items.

Retrieve a session by identifier. The response includes the bound agent, status, metadata, and aggregate counts of turns, items, and subagents.

## Endpoint

```http theme={null}
GET /v1/agents/sessions/{session_id}
```

## Authentication

`Authorization: Bearer <api_key>` or `Authorization: ApiKey <api_key>`.

## Path parameters

<ParamField path="session_id" type="string" required>
  Session identifier.
</ParamField>

## Response

<ResponseField name="id" type="string">
  Session identifier.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="object" type="string">
  Always `agent.session`.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="agent_id" type="string">
  Bound agent identifier.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="status" type="string">
  Session status.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="metadata" type="object">
  Free-form metadata.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="counts" type="object">
  Aggregate counts of `turns`, `items`, and `subagents`.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="created_at" type="integer">
  Unix seconds.
</ResponseField>

## Example

```bash theme={null}
curl https://agent.example.com/v1/agents/sessions/sess_0198c... \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ARIA_AGENT_KEY"
```

```json theme={null}
{
  "id": "sess_0198c...",
  "object": "agent.session",
  "agent_id": "ag_0198a...",
  "status": "active",
  "metadata": {"user_id": "u_42"},
  "counts": {"turns": 3, "items": 12, "subagents": 0},
  "created_at": 1735000000
}
```


## Related topics

- [Retrieve an Aria Agent Cloud Agent by ID](/api-reference/agent/agents/get.md)
- [Delete an Aria Agent Cloud Session by ID](/api-reference/agent/sessions/delete.md)
- [List Aria Agent Cloud Sessions](/api-reference/agent/sessions/list.md)
- [Update an Aria Agent Cloud Session](/api-reference/agent/sessions/update.md)
- [Create Aria Agent Cloud Session for an Agent](/api-reference/agent/sessions/create.md)