nrepo show

nrepo show <id> [options]

Prints one idea in full: metadata, body, attached URLs, and related ideas.

Options

Flag	Type	Default	Description
--json	boolean	false	Output as JSON.
--human	boolean	—	Force human-readable output. Wins over --json.

Caution

<id> is the idea’s id, not the #42 shown in listings. They are different numbers on any account that is not the very first in the database. nrepo log --json | jq '.[] | {id, number, title}' shows both side by side, and the web app’s URL — neuralrepo.com/ideas/391 — is the id too. See Troubleshooting.

Output

nrepo show 391

#42  Rewrite auth flow

  Status:   exploring
  Source:   ⬡ cli
  Created:  Jul 24, 2026
  Updated:  Jul 24, 2026
  Tags:     auth, security

  ──────────────────────────────

  Switch from session cookies to JWT tokens.
  Short-lived access tokens, refresh in an httpOnly cookie.

  Links
    · RFC 8725: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8725

  Related Ideas
    · related: Session cookie cleanup (78%)
    · parent: Auth overhaul epic

The two lists are different things:

• Links are URLs attached to the idea — a repo, a spec, an article.
• Related Ideas are relations to other ideas. A percentage means the relation was created by duplicate detection or the connection pass with that similarity score; relations you created by hand have none.

URL: appears above the divider when the idea has a source_url — set when it was captured from a web page or the share sheet rather than typed.

JSON output

nrepo show 391 --json

{
  "id": 391,
  "number": 42,
  "title": "Rewrite auth flow",
  "body": "Switch from session cookies to JWT tokens.",
  "status": "exploring",
  "source": "cli",
  "source_url": null,
  "tags": ["auth", "security"],
  "links": [
    { "id": 12, "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8725", "title": "RFC 8725", "link_type": "url" }
  ],
  "relations": [
    { "id": 88, "relation_type": "related", "target_idea_id": 402, "related_idea_number": 18, "related_idea_title": "Session cookie cleanup", "score": 0.78 }
  ],
  "is_archived": 0,
  "created_at": "2026-07-24 10:00:00",
  "updated_at": "2026-07-24 11:30:00"
}

An idea that does not exist — or belongs to another account — returns the same error either way:

API error (404): Idea not found

Next Steps

nrepo edit Change the title or body of the idea you are looking at.

nrepo links The relations list on its own, grouped by direction and type.

nrepo pull Write the same content to local Markdown files for an editor or an agent.

Idea Relations What each relation type means and which ones the system creates for you.