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name: versioning-documents description: Use when the user wants to retrieve a stored document and its extraction result, list a document's versions, or diff two versions. Covers GET /v1/documents/{id}, GET /v1/documents/{id}/versions, and the sync-with-async-fallback diff at GET /v1/documents/{id}/diff plus its poll endpoint.

Versioning documents

Every extraction is stored against a stable document_id that persists across re-processing. Use these endpoints when an application extracts the same logical document more than once and needs the latest result, the full version history, or a diff between two versions.

All four endpoints are GET and require a Bearer token.

Endpoints

Method	Path	Purpose
GET	/v1/documents/{document_id}	Latest version of a document with its extraction result.
GET	/v1/documents/{document_id}/versions	List all versions (paginated), newest first.
GET	/v1/documents/{document_id}/diff?from={v}&to={v}	Diff two versions — sync (200), async fallback (202) when over budget.
GET	/v1/documents/{document_id}/diff/{diff_job_id}	Poll an async diff job.

document_id is the UUID returned alongside each extraction job. The from and to query params accept either a version sequence integer or a job UUID.

Get the latest version

curl -s https://api.kreuzberg.dev/v1/documents/$DOC_ID \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KREUZBERG_API_KEY"

Returns the latest version's extraction result (same result shape as GET /v1/jobs/{id} — content, tables, images, metadata).

List versions

curl -s https://api.kreuzberg.dev/v1/documents/$DOC_ID/versions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KREUZBERG_API_KEY"

Returns an array of DocumentVersionEntry (paginated). Each entry carries its version sequence number and the job ID that produced it — use either as a from/to value when diffing.

Diff two versions

curl -s "https://api.kreuzberg.dev/v1/documents/$DOC_ID/diff?from=1&to=3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KREUZBERG_API_KEY"

The diff is computed synchronously and returned inline as 200 when it fits the request budget:

{
  "document_id": "…",
  "from_job_id": "…", "from_version": 1,
  "to_job_id": "…",   "to_version": 3,
  "diff": { "…": "kreuzberg ExtractionDiff shape" },
  "computed_at": "2026-06-20T10:00:00Z"
}

The diff field is the full kreuzberg::diff::ExtractionDiff. The OpenAPI schema declares it opaque because the Rust type recurses; decode it against kreuzberg's published diff schema if you need a typed surface — do not hard-code a shape from this skill.

Async fallback

When the diff exceeds the inline compute budget, the endpoint returns 202 with a job handle instead:

{ "diff_job_id": "…", "status": "pending" }

Poll it the same way you poll extraction jobs — exponential backoff capped at ~30s — until terminal:

curl -s https://api.kreuzberg.dev/v1/documents/$DOC_ID/diff/$DIFF_JOB_ID \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KREUZBERG_API_KEY"

Treat both 200 (inline) and 202 (queued) as success at submit time; branch on the status code to decide whether to poll.

Errors

Status	Meaning	Action
400	Invalid from/to	Pass a version sequence integer or a job UUID.
401	Bad API key	Check the Authorization header.
404	Version not found	Document or version doesn't exist in this project.
422	Async diff failed	The queued diff errored server-side; resubmit or report.

Other skills

• tracking-cloud-jobs — polling cadence and terminal-status detection (reuse it for async diff jobs).
• offloading-extraction — produces the document_id these endpoints read.