Delete a Memory changedapi/beta/memory_stores/memories/delete
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2title: Delete a Memory
33url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta/memory_stores/memories/delete
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6# Delete a memory
6# Delete a Memory
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88**DELETE** `/v1/memory_stores/{memory_store_id}/memories/{memory_id}`
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10Delete a memory
10Delete a Memory
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156 Tombstone returned by [Delete a memory](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta/memory_stores/memories/delete?sdk_languages=http). Deleting a memory does not erase its version history: its versions remain listable via [List memory versions](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta/memory_stores/memory_versions/list?sdk_languages=http) while they are retained (each version is kept for at least the version retention period after it was written, unless the store itself is deleted).
156 The confirmation that [Delete a Memory](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta/memory_stores/memories/delete?sdk_languages=http) returns.
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158 Deleting a memory doesn't delete its versions. [List Memory Versions](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta/memory_stores/memory_versions/list?sdk_languages=http) returns them while they are retained: each version is kept for at least the version retention period after it was written, unless the store itself is deleted.
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160 See the [memory guide](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/memory?sdk_languages=http#audit-memory-changes) to learn more about how long versions are kept.
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158162 - `type: "memory_deleted"`
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