# Delete agent

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/agent/delete-agent-by-ref

> Removes an agent and every run recorded against it.

`DELETE /v1/agent/{ref}`

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|               |                                        |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/agent/{ref}`  |
| **Method**    | `DELETE`                               |
| **Operation** | `delete_agent_by_ref`                  |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY` |

Removes an agent and every run recorded against it. Answers 204.

## Request

1 field.

| Field | In   | Type   | Required | Description                                                                                                      |
| ----- | ---- | ------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `ref` | path | string | yes      | Ref is the agent's public id (the agent\_… handle create and list return) or its org-unique name, from the path. |

## Response

| Status    | Body            | Meaning    |
| --------- | --------------- | ---------- |
| `204`     | —               | no content |
| `default` | problem-details | refused    |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo agent rm <ref>
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, AgentApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new AgentApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.deleteAgentByRef({ ref: 'ref' });
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import AgentApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = AgentApi(client).delete_agent_by_ref(ref='ref')
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.AgentAPI.DeleteAgentByRef(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, agent_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = agent_api::delete_agent_by_ref(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.AgentApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new AgentApi(client).deleteAgentByRef();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl -X DELETE https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/agent/<ref> \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY"
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **agent** through the `agent` tool, which names its 38 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_agents"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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