> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.continuouslabs.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get Cloud Box > Returns a Cloud Box. Reading a Cloud Box does not resume an idle one. A Cloud Box that failed to start is removed; for a week, reading it answers 404 cloudbox_boot_failed with the reason. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi/simulation.yaml get /v1/cloudbox/{id} openapi: 3.1.0 info: description: >- Start API Boxes, Web Boxes, MCP Boxes and Cloud Boxes from Snapshots. Authenticate every request with an API key sent as a Bearer token. title: Continuous API version: v1 servers: - description: Continuous production API. url: https://api.continuouslabs.ai security: [] tags: - description: >- Start API Boxes from API Box Snapshots. Each API Box serves its Snapshot's API at its own endpoint, with its own state, in real time. Stop, start and delete them. name: apibox x-group: API Boxes - description: >- Build API Box Snapshots from an OpenAPI, WSDL or GraphQL document, or use the catalog's. API Boxes start from a ready Snapshot. name: apibox-snapshots x-group: API Box Snapshots - description: >- Start Web Boxes from Web Box Snapshots. Each Web Box serves its Snapshot's web app at a host of its own, with its own state, in real time. Stop, start and delete them. name: webbox x-group: Web Boxes - description: >- Build Web Box Snapshots from a vendor's live web app, or use the catalog's. Web Boxes start from a ready Snapshot. name: webbox-snapshots x-group: Web Box Snapshots - description: >- Start MCP Boxes from MCP Box Snapshots. Each MCP Box serves its Snapshot's tools over MCP in front of an API Box. Stop, start and delete them. name: mcpbox x-group: MCP Boxes - description: >- List, rename and delete the MCP Box Snapshots that Continuous publishes into your workspace. Each holds an MCP server's tools, built against an API Box Snapshot. name: mcpbox-snapshots x-group: MCP Box Snapshots - description: >- Create emulated cloud accounts from Cloud Box Snapshots, start and stop them, and manage their Keys and connections. name: cloudbox x-group: Cloud Boxes - description: >- Save a Cloud Box's state as a Snapshot that new Cloud Boxes start from, and inspect, rename or delete Snapshots. name: cloudbox-snapshots x-group: Cloud Box Snapshots - description: >- Deprecated. Use API Box for APIs and Web Box for web apps. Build Simulators from OpenAPI, WSDL or GraphQL documents, check or cancel a build, clone Simulators into other workspaces, and rename and delete Simulators. name: simulators x-group: Simulators - description: >- Deprecated. Use API Box for APIs and Web Box for web apps. Create Simulations from ready Simulators or Snapshots, then rename, stop, start, and delete them. name: simulations x-group: Simulations - description: >- Deprecated. Use API Box for APIs and Web Box for web apps. Save a running Simulation's state as a Snapshot, create Simulations from it, and rename and delete it. name: simulation-snapshots x-group: Simulation Snapshots - description: >- Store connections to real systems: a base URL, the header that carries the credential, and its value. The API never returns a value. name: credentials x-group: Credentials paths: /v1/cloudbox/{id}: get: tags: - cloudbox summary: Get Cloud Box description: >- Returns a Cloud Box. Reading a Cloud Box does not resume an idle one. A Cloud Box that failed to start is removed; for a week, reading it answers 404 cloudbox_boot_failed with the reason. operationId: get-cloudbox parameters: - description: Cloud Box ID. in: path name: id required: true schema: pattern: ^box_[0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{26}$ type: string responses: '200': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CloudBox' description: OK '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized' '404': content: application/problem+json: examples: cloudbox_not_found: $ref: '#/components/examples/cloudbox_not_found' schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Not Found '500': $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError' '503': content: application/problem+json: examples: auth_provider_unavailable: $ref: '#/components/examples/auth_provider_unavailable' internal_unavailable: $ref: '#/components/examples/internal_unavailable' schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Service Unavailable security: - apiKeyAuth: [] components: schemas: CloudBox: additionalProperties: false properties: ca_certificate: description: >- PEM certificate of the CA the Cloud Box's emulator signs its TLS with, for clients that reach the Cloud Box's service names directly; null until the Cloud Box reports it. type: - string - 'null' console_url: description: >- Opens the Cloud Box's web console in a browser, signing it in through Continuous. format: uri type: string created_at: description: Cloud Box creation time. format: date-time type: string digest: description: >- Digest of the catalog image the Cloud Box runs, pinned when the Cloud Box was created. pattern: ^sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}$ type: string endpoint: description: >- Base URL of the Cloud Box's data plane: one hostname per Cloud Box and no path. format: uri type: string id: description: Cloud Box ID. pattern: ^box_[0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{26}$ type: string last_active_at: description: Time of the Cloud Box's last data-plane activity. format: date-time type: string metadata: description: Customer JSON metadata, or null. name: description: >- Cloud Box name. The ID is its identity, and names need not be unique. maxLength: 128 type: string restorable_until: description: >- While stopped, the time after which the Cloud Box can no longer start; otherwise null. A stopped Cloud Box is deleted 30 days after this time; its ready Snapshots are kept. format: date-time type: - string - 'null' size: description: Size of the Cloud Box, chosen when it was created. enum: - small - medium - large type: string x-speakeasy-unknown-values: allow snapshot_id: description: >- ID of the Snapshot the Cloud Box started from, or null once that Snapshot is deleted. pattern: ^bx[st]_[0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{26}$ type: - string - 'null' status: description: >- Current status. starting until the Cloud Box first runs. running serves requests; after a period without requests, the first request can take longer while the Cloud Box resumes. stopping means its state is being saved, and requests are refused; stopped means its state is saved and its quota slot released until you start it. enum: - starting - running - stopping - stopped type: string x-speakeasy-unknown-values: allow status_changed_at: description: >- When the Cloud Box entered its current status, such as how long it has been starting. format: date-time type: string type: description: Platform the Cloud Box emulates, copied from its Snapshot. enum: - aws type: string x-speakeasy-unknown-values: allow required: - id - snapshot_id - digest - type - name - size - status - endpoint - console_url - restorable_until - metadata - ca_certificate - last_active_at - status_changed_at - created_at type: object Error: additionalProperties: false properties: code: description: Stable machine-readable error code. minLength: 1 type: string detail: description: Safe human-readable error detail. minLength: 1 type: string validation: $ref: '#/components/schemas/SpecificationValidation' description: >- Safe specification diagnostics for a rejected build request, when available. required: - validation - code - detail type: object SpecificationValidation: additionalProperties: false properties: issues: description: Specification validation problems. At most 20 are returned. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/SpecificationIssue' maxItems: 20 type: array required: - issues type: - object - 'null' SpecificationIssue: additionalProperties: false properties: code: description: Stable validation rule code. type: string kind: description: >- Whether the input is invalid, unsupported, incomplete, exceeds a build limit, or has no specific diagnosis. enum: - invalid - unsupported - incomplete - limit - unknown type: string location: description: Readable endpoint or field affected by this issue. maxLength: 512 type: string message: description: What needs attention at this location. type: string operation: description: >- Affected operation ID or method and path, when available. Empty for document-level issues. maxLength: 243 type: string suggestion: description: How to correct or address the problem. type: string required: - code - operation - location - kind - message - suggestion type: object responses: Unauthorized: content: application/problem+json: examples: auth_invalid: $ref: '#/components/examples/auth_invalid' auth_missing: $ref: '#/components/examples/auth_missing' schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Unauthorized InternalServerError: content: application/problem+json: examples: internal: $ref: '#/components/examples/internal' schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Internal Server Error examples: cloudbox_not_found: value: code: cloudbox_not_found detail: No Cloud Box was found with that ID. validation: null auth_provider_unavailable: value: code: auth_provider_unavailable detail: >- The authentication provider is unavailable. Retry the request after a short delay. validation: null internal_unavailable: value: code: internal_unavailable detail: >- The service is temporarily unavailable. Retry the request after a short delay. validation: null auth_invalid: value: code: auth_invalid detail: The authentication credential is invalid. validation: null auth_missing: value: code: auth_invalid detail: Authentication credentials are required. validation: null internal: value: code: internal detail: The server encountered an unexpected error. validation: null securitySchemes: apiKeyAuth: bearerFormat: Continuous API key description: >- Use a Continuous API key. Send it in the Authorization header as a Bearer token. scheme: bearer type: http ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.