get_item

Fetch a single item (Task / Habit / Chore / Event) by any reference.

item accepts any Ref input form and is resolved transparently:

• a UUID (GET /items/{id});

• a Sequence shorthand -- #123 or bare 123. This resolves against your personal org only, by design. For an item in a shared org, name it by its Canonical ref (acme-123) or its App URL instead -- both resolve across orgs;

• a Canonical ref (slug-123, e.g. u-1y0e2v-123);

• an App URL (https://app.defernowork.com/o/{org_slug}/items/{seq-or-id});

• the unambiguous GitHub Alias owner/repo#N (it carries a /, so it can't be confused with a Canonical ref) -- auto-routed to the by-alias endpoint.

Deferno-# vs GitHub-# ambiguity. A bare #N always means a Deferno Sequence shorthand here; it is NOT inferred as a GitHub issue. Likewise an ambiguous string like ABC-223 collides with a Canonical ref and is therefore NOT auto-routed to alias resolution. Inferring which a user means from conversation is the job of a future context-adaptive classifier (see CONTEXT.md "Flagged ambiguities"), not this tool. Until then, use as_alias=true to force the alias path.

Args: item: Any Ref input form (or, with as_alias=true, a raw alias). full: When true, return the complete record (action history, comments, children, mood, attachments, ...) instead of the default compact projection. as_alias: When true, BYPASS the Ref classifier and look item up directly via GET /items/by-alias/{item}. This is the explicit escape-hatch for ambiguous external aliases (e.g. ABC-223) that the classifier deliberately will not auto-route. The unambiguous GitHub form owner/repo#N already routes to by-alias WITHOUT this flag.

Returns a compact projection by default (a small whitelist of fields, including description). Pass full=true for the complete record (action history, comments, children, mood, attachments, ...).