---
title: "Delete Canvas"
method: DELETE
path: "/canvases/{canvas_ref}"
tags: ["canvas-actions"]
---

# Delete Canvas

`DELETE /canvases/{canvas_ref}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.moda.app/v1`
- URL: `https://api.moda.app/v1/canvases/{canvas_ref}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Soft-delete a canvas (parity gap #12). Edit access enforced by the service.

Rate-limited in the same authoring fair-use bucket as the other authoring
verbs — delete is part of the same loop (create → author → discard).
Template governance + delete live in ``delete_canvas_governed_impl``,
shared with ``DELETE /v1/drive/items/{ref}``.

## Path parameters

- `canvas_ref` string, required

## Headers

- `Moda-Version` '2026-04-12' | '2026-05-01'

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- object

## Other responses

- `401`: Authentication required.
- `402`: Insufficient credits for a metered operation.
- `403`: Permission denied for this scope.
- `404`: Resource not found.
- `409`: Conflict (idempotency / resource state).
- `422`: Request validation failed.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded.
- `500`: Internal error.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/moda/apis/moda-public-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/moda/apis/moda-public-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/moda/apis/moda-public-api/revisions/9ac6a3abc0f8?raw)