# Delete indexes

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/index/delete-index-indexes-by-uid

> Deletes an index and everything in it.

`DELETE /v1/index/indexes/{uid}`

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|               |                                               |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/index/indexes/{uid}` |
| **Method**    | `DELETE`                                      |
| **Operation** | `delete_index_indexes_by_uid`                 |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`        |

Deletes an index and everything in it.

Drops the index and every document in it from the caller's own org, and
answers the dialect's EnqueuedTask. This is the only way to retire an index;
without it a mistaken uid is permanent. Deleting an index that is not there
succeeds, so a cleanup pass is safe to re-run.

The 202 and its `enqueued` task are DIALECT COMPATIBILITY, not a promise of
later work: the documents are already gone when this answers.

## Request

1 field.

| Field | In   | Type   | Required | Description |
| ----- | ---- | ------ | -------- | ----------- |
| `uid` | path | string | yes      |             |

## Response

| Status    | Body                | Meaning  |
| --------- | ------------------- | -------- |
| `202`     | index.indexEnqueued | accepted |
| `default` | problem-details     | refused  |

`202` body — 5 fields.

| Field        | In   | Type            | Always | Description                                                                                                                                 |
| ------------ | ---- | --------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `enqueuedAt` | body | string          | —      | EnqueuedAt is when the task was recorded, RFC 3339 — which is also when it completed.                                                       |
| `indexUid`   | body | string          | —      | IndexUID names the index the write landed in.                                                                                               |
| `status`     | body | string          | —      | Status is always `enqueued`, for dialect compatibility.                                                                                     |
| `taskUid`    | body | integer (int64) | —      | TaskUID identifies the task for a client that polls it.                                                                                     |
| `type`       | body | string          | —      | Type is the dialect's name for the kind of write: indexCreation, indexDeletion, settingsUpdate, documentAdditionOrUpdate, documentDeletion. |

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

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo index indexes rm <uid>
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

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

const api = new IndexApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.deleteIndexIndexesByUid({ uid: 'uid' });
```

**.py**

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

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = IndexApi(client).delete_index_indexes_by_uid(uid='uid')
```

**.go**

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

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

**.rs**

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

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

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

**.java**

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

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

var result = new IndexApi(client).deleteIndexIndexesByUid();
```

**HTTP**

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

**MCP**

MCP reaches **index** through the `index` tool, which names its 14 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": "get_index_health"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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