---
title: "Delete a document"
method: DELETE
path: "/api/v1/rest/documents/{id}"
tags: ["Documents"]
---

# Delete a document

`DELETE /api/v1/rest/documents/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.custodo.ai`
- URL: `https://api.custodo.ai/api/v1/rest/documents/{id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Removes a document from the archive. The record and its sealed versions are kept internally (this is a soft delete), but it stops appearing anywhere. REFUSED for a document in digital preservation or under legal hold — a retention term binds only once the document is preserved (0324) — and the database enforces that, so do not try to work around it. A mail message filed in the archive may be removed too: the message stays in its mailbox and reads as not archived again. Ask the user to confirm before calling this.

**Examples**

- Delete that duplicate upload
  `DELETE /api/v1/rest/documents/11111111-2222-4333-8444-555555555555`

## Path parameters

- `id` string, uuid, required

## Headers

- `X-Tenant-Id` string, uuid

## Response `200`

Done. `data` is the tool’s own answer.

- RestResult
  - `ok` true, required
  - `data` unknown, required

## Other responses

- `400`: The arguments did not validate: `error.message` names the field, what it expects and what arrived.
- `401`: No API key, or one that is malformed, unknown, revoked or expired.
- `403`: The call never ran: the module is off for this organisation, the credential lacks the permission or the module, the tier does not cover it, or the tool is destructive and the key was not minted for that.
- `404`: Nothing with that id in this organisation.
- `409`: The record is in a state that does not allow it — under legal hold, already sent, already closed. `error.code` says which.
- `422`: The tool ran and refused, in a sentence of its own (`TOOL_REFUSED`): the message says what to change. Retrying the same call will not help.
- `429`: The API key has spent its minute, or its day. Every request a key makes counts. See `Retry-After`.

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