# List lifecycle

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/content/get-content-lifecycle

> Returns the ONE marketing-content state machine: the ordered lifecycle states, which state a fresh document starts in, which one is publicly live, and the legal successors of every state.

`GET /v1/content/lifecycle`

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|               |                                             |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/content/lifecycle` |
| **Method**    | `GET`                                       |
| **Operation** | `get_content_lifecycle`                     |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`      |

Returns the ONE marketing-content state machine: the ordered
lifecycle states, which state a fresh document starts in, which one is publicly
live, and the legal successors of every state. The console builds its board
columns and its per-item action buttons from this single answer, so the UI and
the write-time enforcement hook can never disagree about what is legal.

## Request

`GET /v1/content/lifecycle` takes no parameters and no body — the credential is the whole request.

## Response

| Status    | Body               | Meaning |
| --------- | ------------------ | ------- |
| `200`     | content.stateGraph | ok      |
| `default` | problem-details    | refused |

`200` body — 5 fields.

| Field           | In   | Type      | Always | Description                                                                                                   |
| --------------- | ---- | --------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `initial`       | body | string    | —      | Initial is the state a fresh document starts in — "draft".                                                    |
| `live`          | body | string    | —      | Live is the ONE state that is publicly readable — "published".                                                |
| `states`        | body | string\[] | —      | States is every lifecycle state in canonical order: draft, in\_review, approved, queued, published, archived. |
| `transitions`   | body | object    | —      | Transitions maps each state to the states it may move to.                                                     |
| `transitions.*` | body | string\[] | —      |                                                                                                               |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo content lifecycle
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, ContentApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new ContentApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.getContentLifecycle();
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import ContentApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = ContentApi(client).get_content_lifecycle()
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.ContentAPI.GetContentLifecycle(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, content_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = content_api::get_content_lifecycle(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.ContentApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new ContentApi(client).getContentLifecycle();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/content/lifecycle \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY"
```

**MCP**

Tool `content`, op `get_content_lifecycle` — POST the JSON-RPC envelope to `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp`.

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "content",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "get_content_lifecycle",
           "input": {}
         }
       }
     }'
```

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