---
id: workflow-delete
title: "Delete a workflow"
description: "Deletes the workflow: it disappears from lists and reads, along with its revisions and aliases. The record is retained internally (soft delete)."
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<MethodEndpoint
  method={"delete"}
  path={"/workflows/definitions/{id}"}
  context={"endpoint"}
>
  
</MethodEndpoint>



Deletes the workflow: it disappears from lists and reads, along with its revisions and aliases. The record is retained internally (soft delete).

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  parameters={[{"in":"path","name":"id","required":true,"schema":{"type":"string"},"description":"Workflow reference: a server-minted id (`wf_...`) or the workflow's client-chosen key (lowercase slug, unique per organization).","example":"wf_ifWBbWfpug0n"}]}
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  responses={{"204":{"description":"The workflow was deleted."},"4XX":{"description":"Client error. The body says what went wrong: an error `type`, a human-readable `detail`, and, on validation failures, one entry per offending field.","content":{"application/problem+json":{"schema":{"title":"Problem","type":"object","description":"The standard error body (RFC 7807 problem details, served as `application/problem+json`).","properties":{"type":{"type":"string","description":"Error type URI, e.g. `https://workflow-system.dev/errors/workflow-not-found`.","example":"https://workflow-system.dev/errors/workflow-not-found"},"title":{"type":"string","example":"Not found"},"status":{"type":"integer","example":404},"detail":{"type":"string","example":"No workflow with id wf_ifWBbWfpug0n exists"},"instance":{"type":"string","example":"/workflows/definitions/wf_ifWBbWfpug0n"},"errors":{"type":"array","description":"Present on validation failures: one entry per offending field.","items":{"type":"object","properties":{"path":{"type":"string","example":"/steps/scan/config"},"message":{"type":"string","example":"must have required property 'code'"}}}}}}}}},"5XX":{"description":"Unexpected server error.","content":{"application/problem+json":{"schema":{"title":"Problem","type":"object","description":"The standard error body (RFC 7807 problem details, served as `application/problem+json`).","properties":{"type":{"type":"string","description":"Error type URI, e.g. `https://workflow-system.dev/errors/workflow-not-found`.","example":"https://workflow-system.dev/errors/workflow-not-found"},"title":{"type":"string","example":"Not found"},"status":{"type":"integer","example":404},"detail":{"type":"string","example":"No workflow with id wf_ifWBbWfpug0n exists"},"instance":{"type":"string","example":"/workflows/definitions/wf_ifWBbWfpug0n"},"errors":{"type":"array","description":"Present on validation failures: one entry per offending field.","items":{"type":"object","properties":{"path":{"type":"string","example":"/steps/scan/config"},"message":{"type":"string","example":"must have required property 'code'"}}}}}}}}}}}
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