Delete Document

Remove one document from a knowledge base. What that means depends on the document. A directly uploaded document is deleted outright along with its indexed chunks. A connector-backed document is instead excluded: its row survives, marked excluded and disabled so it stops being searchable and a later connector sync does not re-add it, and its embeddings are not deleted. Either way the document no longer appears in listings or search results.

DELETE/api/v2/knowledge/{id}/documents/{documentId}

Authorization

apiKey
X-API-Key<token>

Your Sim API key, personal or workspace-scoped. Generate one from the Sim dashboard under Settings > API Keys. A workspace API key is not accepted everywhere: operations that act on behalf of a specific human — administrative reads, secret access, and irreversible or governance-affecting writes — always reject it, whatever role the key carries. Each such operation says so in its own description, and the rejection surfaces as 403 unless the operation conceals unauthorized resources, in which case it is reported as 404. Use a personal API key for those.

In: header

Path Parameters

id*string

Unique knowledge base identifier.

Length1 <= length
documentId*string

Unique knowledge document identifier.

Length1 <= length

Query Parameters

workspaceId*string

Workspace that owns the knowledge base.

Length1 <= length

Response Body

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

curl -X DELETE "https://www.sim.ai/api/v2/knowledge/string/documents/string?workspaceId=string"
{
  "data": {
    "id": "7c9e6679-7425-40de-944b-e07fc1f90ae7",
    "deleted": true
  }
}
{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "The request is invalid."
  }
}
{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "The request is invalid."
  }
}
{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "The request is invalid."
  }
}
{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "The request is invalid."
  }
}
{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "The request is invalid."
  }
}
{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "The request is invalid."
  }
}
{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "The request is invalid."
  }
}
DELETEDelete Knowledge BaseDELETEDelete Folder