Soft-delete a category (console plane, human authority)

DELETE

/v1/admin/orgs/{org_id}/projects/{project_id}/categories/{id}

• Production
• Local

SOFT delete the category (D9 never-hard-delete): the row + its references + history survive as training data. The soft-delete is a self-tombstone (merged_into = self) so it drops out of the default registry list; an audit/undo row (action=retire) records it. Console-only; a foreign id is 404.

Authorizations

• ClerkSession
• AgentKey
  account:admin

Parameters

Path Parameters

org_id

required

string

project_id

required

string

id

required

string

Responses

200

Soft-deleted.

The result of a soft-delete (the row + history survive as training data; D9).

object

status

required

string

Example

deleted

category_id

required

string

merged_into

string

401

Missing or invalid credential.

The canonical error envelope. error is a stable machine code.

object

error

required

Stable error code (e.g. unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, invalid, quota_exceeded, rate_limited).

string

Example

forbidden

message

Human-readable detail (never leaks internals).

string

Example

missing required scope

reason

Machine-readable quota reason. inbox_limit_exceeded means billing account inbox capacity across all organizations and projects sharing that account; enrollment_token_mailbox_budget_exhausted means the enrollment key lifetime creation allowance. Read message for recovery; inbox counts are separate from sending quotas.

string

used

Consumed plus reserved units.

integer format: int64

delta

Requested additional units.

integer format: int64

limit

integer format: int64

remaining

integer format: int64

consumed

integer format: int64

reserved

integer format: int64

next_reset_at

Next UTC usage-period boundary; pending reservations survive this boundary.

string format: date-time

upgrade_required

boolean

403

Authenticated but lacking the required scope, or out of quota.

The canonical error envelope. error is a stable machine code.

object

error

required

Stable error code (e.g. unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, invalid, quota_exceeded, rate_limited).

string

Example

forbidden

message

Human-readable detail (never leaks internals).

string

Example

missing required scope

reason

Machine-readable quota reason. inbox_limit_exceeded means billing account inbox capacity across all organizations and projects sharing that account; enrollment_token_mailbox_budget_exhausted means the enrollment key lifetime creation allowance. Read message for recovery; inbox counts are separate from sending quotas.

string

used

Consumed plus reserved units.

integer format: int64

delta

Requested additional units.

integer format: int64

limit

integer format: int64

remaining

integer format: int64

consumed

integer format: int64

reserved

integer format: int64

next_reset_at

Next UTC usage-period boundary; pending reservations survive this boundary.

string format: date-time

upgrade_required

boolean

404

Resource not found.

The canonical error envelope. error is a stable machine code.

object

error

required

Stable error code (e.g. unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, invalid, quota_exceeded, rate_limited).

string

Example

forbidden

message

Human-readable detail (never leaks internals).

string

Example

missing required scope

reason

Machine-readable quota reason. inbox_limit_exceeded means billing account inbox capacity across all organizations and projects sharing that account; enrollment_token_mailbox_budget_exhausted means the enrollment key lifetime creation allowance. Read message for recovery; inbox counts are separate from sending quotas.

string

used

Consumed plus reserved units.

integer format: int64

delta

Requested additional units.

integer format: int64

limit

integer format: int64

remaining

integer format: int64

consumed

integer format: int64

reserved

integer format: int64

next_reset_at

Next UTC usage-period boundary; pending reservations survive this boundary.

string format: date-time

upgrade_required

boolean