# Feature Request: API to read tulip machine attributes

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/feature-request-api-to-read-tulip-machine-attributes/16148>\
**Category:** Product Suggestions\
**Created:** [March 4, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/feature-request-api-to-read-tulip-machine-attributes/16148 "2026-03-04T19:37:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/feature-request-api-to-read-tulip-machine-attributes/16148/1 "2026-03-04T19:37:51Z")

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Tulip API supports machines updating machine attributes and allowing tulip apps to change machine attributes but external machines cannot read attributes set by tulip apps.

This limits our ability for a machine to be triggered to execute some work based on a change in tulip. Is this an intentional limitation?