diff --git a/documentation/public-task-api.md b/documentation/public-task-api.md
index 2aca9f6e..7936a39a 100644
--- a/documentation/public-task-api.md
+++ b/documentation/public-task-api.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Accidentally modifying any of these plaintext values would make report generatio
 
 ## Proposed improvement
 
-We add an infinitely cacheable (`Cache-Control: public, max-age=604800`) endpoint `GET {divviup-api url}/api/tasks/:task_id`. When a task is found with the provided task identifier, the divviup-api server responds with the following json:
+We add an infinitely cacheable (`Cache-Control: public, max-age=604800`) endpoint `GET {divviup-api url}/tasks/:task_id`. When a task is found with the provided task identifier, the divviup-api server responds with the following json:
 
 ```json
 {
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ We add an infinitely cacheable (`Cache-Control: public, max-age=604800`) endpoin
   "leader": "https://dap.xxqbi.example/",
   "helper": "https://dap.xxqbi.example/",
   "time_precision_seconds": 1080,
-  "protocol": "DAP-04"
 }
 ```
 
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ and the client can be configured like:
 
 ```js
 import DivviupClient from "@divviup/client";
-const client = new DivviupClient("https://api.divviup.org/api/tasks/5YXXYPFzt1a8cuo8AlKqs6oKbt3FIrkn3Q8JseJKRYs");
+const client = new DivviupClient("https://api.divviup.org/tasks/5YXXYPFzt1a8cuo8AlKqs6oKbt3FIrkn3Q8JseJKRYs");
 ```
 
 or, optionally, the following shortcut is also supported:
diff --git a/src/routes.rs b/src/routes.rs
index 2f646439..f28becfe 100644
--- a/src/routes.rs
+++ b/src/routes.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ pub fn routes(config: &Config) -> impl Handler {
                 redirect(config.app_url.to_string()),
             ),
         )
+        .get("/tasks/:task_id", api(tasks::public_show))
         .any(
             &[Get, Post, Delete, Patch],
             "/api/*",
diff --git a/src/routes/tasks.rs b/src/routes/tasks.rs
index 810822ef..b36cac93 100644
--- a/src/routes/tasks.rs
+++ b/src/routes/tasks.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ use crate::{
     Crypter, Db, Error, Permissions, PermissionsActor,
 };
 use sea_orm::{ActiveModelTrait, EntityTrait, ModelTrait};
+use serde_json::json;
 use std::time::Duration;
 use time::OffsetDateTime;
 use trillium::{Conn, Handler, Status};
@@ -90,6 +91,22 @@ pub async fn show(
     Ok(Json(task))
 }
 
+pub async fn public_show(conn: &mut Conn, db: Db) -> Result<impl Handler, Error> {
+    let task_id = conn.param("task_id").ok_or(Error::NotFound)?;
+    let task = Tasks::find_by_id(task_id)
+        .one(&db)
+        .await?
+        .ok_or(Error::NotFound)?;
+    let [leader, helper] = task.aggregators(&db).await?;
+    Ok(Json(json!({
+        "id": task.id,
+        "vdaf": task.vdaf,
+        "leader": leader.dap_url,
+        "helper": helper.dap_url,
+        "time_precision_seconds": task.time_precision_seconds,
+    })))
+}
+
 pub async fn update(
     _: &mut Conn,
     (task, Json(update), db): (Task, Json<UpdateTask>, Db),
diff --git a/tests/tasks.rs b/tests/tasks.rs
index f9085bf8..09ee0495 100644
--- a/tests/tasks.rs
+++ b/tests/tasks.rs
@@ -774,3 +774,29 @@ mod collector_auth_tokens {
         Ok(())
     }
 }
+
+mod public_show {
+    use divviup_api::entity::task::vdaf::{Sum, Vdaf};
+    use test_support::{assert_eq, test, *};
+    #[test(harness = set_up)]
+    async fn as_completely_unauthenticated_user(app: DivviupApi) -> TestResult {
+        let account = fixtures::account(&app).await;
+        let task = fixtures::task(&app, &account).await;
+        let mut task = task.into_active_model();
+        task.vdaf = ActiveValue::Set(Vdaf::Sum(Sum { bits: Some(8) }));
+        let task = task.update(app.db()).await?;
+        let [leader, helper] = task.aggregators(app.db()).await?;
+        assert_ok!(
+            get(format!("/tasks/{}", task.id)).run_async(&app).await,
+            serde_json::to_string(&json!({
+                "id": task.id,
+                "leader": leader.dap_url,
+                "helper": helper.dap_url,
+                "time_precision_seconds": task.time_precision_seconds,
+                "vdaf": { "type":"sum", "bits": 8 }
+            }))
+            .unwrap()
+        );
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}