Delete a work item

DELETEhttps://<your-url>/api/v2/work-items/{work_item}

MCP id work-items.destroyAlso on this path: GET Read a work item, PATCH Update a work item

Permanently deletes a work item.

Token scope: api:destroy:project_management
Without it: 403 insufficient-token-scope.
Permission: project_management::manage_work_items
Without it: 403 insufficient-permission.
Rate cost: 1 unit, write bucket.
Also: Accepts If-Match. Never cached: private, no-store. Unknown query parameters are refused, never ignored.

Both are checked, scope first. A token never does more than its user. How access is checked

Request

Example: Delete a work item

curl -X DELETE \
  'https://<your-url>/api/v2/work-items/1' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'

const response = await fetch('https://<your-url>/api/v2/work-items/1', {
  method: 'DELETE',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer <token>',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
  },
});

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$response = Http::withToken('<token>')
    ->acceptJson()
    ->delete('https://<your-url>/api/v2/work-items/1');

import requests
response = requests.request(
    'DELETE',
    'https://<your-url>/api/v2/work-items/1',
    headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer <token>', 'Accept': 'application/json'},
)

Response

No body.

{
  "type": "https://developers.plnnrly.com/api/v2/problems/state-conflict",
  "title": "State conflict",
  "status": 409,
  "detail": "The target status is not reachable from this work item's current status.",
  "instance": "/api/v2/work-items/812/actions/transition",
  "request_id": "01K4B7Q9YV3PZ2N8T1E6M0XR4S",
  "conflict": {
    "reason": "illegal_transition",
    "from_workflow_status_id": 3,
    "to_workflow_status_id": 9
  }
}

{
  "type": "https://developers.plnnrly.com/api/v2/problems/precondition-failed",
  "title": "Precondition failed",
  "status": 412,
  "detail": "The record changed since the version named in If-Match. Re-read it and retry.",
  "instance": "/api/v2/work-items/812",
  "request_id": "01K4B7Q9YV3PZ2N8T1E6M0XR4S",
  "current_version": 12
}

This resource is hard-delete: there is no restore action, no force parameter and no trashed parameter. Its comments, subtasks, links and attachments go with it. A work item that has child work items is refused with 409 state-conflict and conflict.reason has_children: deleting a parent would silently delete the whole sub-tree. Move or delete the children first. Logged time is untouched: it hangs off the task, not the work item.

Path parameters

work_iteminteger or stringRequired

The WorkItem's numeric id. Or its issue_key, matching [A-Z][A-Z0-9]*-[0-9]+.

Request headers

X-Request-Idstringpattern

A correlation id of your own. It is recorded in our logs next to the server's request id but never returned: the response header always carries the server's id. A value that does not match the pattern is discarded silently, never rejected.

If-Matchstring

The ETag a write is conditional on. A stale validator is 412 precondition-failed.

Response 204

Returns no content.

Headers

RateLimit: The IETF httpapi-ratelimit-headers form of your remaining allowance on the tightest bucket this request touched.
RateLimit-Policy: The ceiling and window of that bucket, as <limit>;w=<seconds>.
X-Request-Id: The server-generated ULID correlating this response with our logs.

Every response also carries Cache-Control, Vary, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Plnnrly-Api-Version, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset. Headers and versioning