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id: delete-document
title: "Delete a document"
description: "Delete a document and all its associated memory units and links."
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  children={"Delete a document"}
>
</Heading>

<MethodEndpoint
  method={"delete"}
  path={"/v1/default/banks/{bank_id}/documents/{document_id}"}
  context={"endpoint"}
>
  
</MethodEndpoint>



Delete a document and all its associated memory units and links.

This will cascade delete:
- The document itself
- All memory units extracted from this document
- All links (temporal, semantic, entity) associated with those memory units

This operation cannot be undone.

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  id={"request"}
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  className={"openapi-tabs__heading"}
  children={"Request"}
>
</Heading>

<ParamsDetails
  parameters={[{"name":"bank_id","in":"path","required":true,"schema":{"type":"string","title":"Bank Id"}},{"name":"document_id","in":"path","required":true,"schema":{"type":"string","title":"Document Id"}}]}
>
  
</ParamsDetails>

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  body={undefined}
>
  
</RequestSchema>

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</StatusCodes>