> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.enginy.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Delete a contact

> Soft delete a contact by ID and remove it from contact lists.

    > **Required scope:** `CONTACTS_WRITE`
    >
    > **Rate limit:** 30 requests per minute



## OpenAPI

````yaml https://openapi.enginy.ai/definitions.json delete /v1/contact/{contactId}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Enginy API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: Public API for Enginy platform
servers:
  - url: https://openapi.enginy.ai
    description: Configured server
security: []
tags:
  - name: AI Variables
    description: >-
      Manage AI variables and discover the entity fields you can reference in
      prompts and entity requests.
  - name: Inbox
    description: >-
      Inbox endpoints for listing contact threads, reading thread messages,
      managing tags, and sending manual replies.
  - name: Workflows
    description: >-
      Build, validate, publish, run, and inspect advanced (graph) workflows,
      plus the block/condition catalog needed to author a workflow plan.
paths:
  /v1/contact/{contactId}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - Contacts
      summary: Delete a contact
      description: |-
        Soft delete a contact by ID and remove it from contact lists.

            > **Required scope:** `CONTACTS_WRITE`
            >
            > **Rate limit:** 30 requests per minute
      parameters:
        - schema:
            type: string
            description: The contact ID
          required: true
          description: The contact ID
          name: contactId
          in: path
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Contact deleted successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  status:
                    type: string
                    enum:
                      - success
                  message:
                    type: string
                  data:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      id:
                        type: number
                        description: ID of the deleted contact
                      deleted:
                        type: boolean
                        enum:
                          - true
                        description: Whether the contact was deleted
                    required:
                      - id
                      - deleted
                required:
                  - status
                  - message
                  - data
        '400':
          description: Bad request - invalid contact ID
        '404':
          description: Contact not found
      security:
        - apiKey: []
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key

````