---
title: "Delete User Memory"
method: DELETE
path: "/user-memories/{memory_id}"
tags: ["User memories"]
---

# Delete User Memory

`DELETE /user-memories/{memory_id}`

Stop applying a memory. The row is kept as `deleted`, so no writer
re-adds the statement and deletion rate per origin stays measurable.

Idempotent. Someone else's id answers 404, like an id that does not exist.

## Path parameters

- `memory_id` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- UserMemoryResponse — One line of the settings list: what is remembered, where it applies, whether it is switched on, when and by which writer it was stored, and the conversation it came from when there is one. Deliberately narrower than the domain model: `status` is always `active` here and the confirmation bookkeeping is not something the list shows. `categories` say what it governs (EXC-956); `is_grading_rule` is derived from them (`grading` among them) and kept for older clients. The title is left out: it repeats the statement, which the list shows in full (EXC-801).
  - `id` string, required
  - `statement` string, required
  - `categories` string[], required
  - `grades` string[], required
  - `enabled` boolean, required
  - `is_grading_rule` boolean, required
  - `origin` 'declared' | 'inferred' | 'authored' | 'backfilled' | 'manual', required
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, nullable, required
  - `source_chat_id` string, nullable, required

## Other responses

- `404` — Resource not found
- `422` — Validation Error

## Changes

> 29 revisions in range; 1 not diffed.

- **2026-09-30** `518c1e6178a3` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/excellence-ai/apis/excellence-learning/changes/user-memories/:memory_id/delete.md)

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