# DELETE /api/v2/tasks/{task}

Delete a task

- MCP id: tasks.destroy
- Scope: api:destroy:kanban
- Permission: kanban::manage_self
- Rate cost: 1 unit, write bucket.
- Cache-Control: private, no-store

Deletes a task permanently and answers `204`: it uses no soft deletes, so there is no restore verb and no force parameter, and a deleted task comes back only by being re-created through `POST projects/{project}/tasks`, appended to the end of the board rather than to its old position.

A task carrying logged time is deleted without complaint: there is no guard on this operation. Nothing is deleted with it either: worklogs, planning events, Outlook events and work items that pointed at the task survive and are detached, their task reference set to `null`. The delete is recorded in the owning project's activity timeline rather than a timeline of its own, but unlike an update it does not bump the project's `updated_at`, so an incremental `filter[updated_at][gte]` window on projects will not show it.

## Parameters
- task (integer, path): The Task's numeric id.
- X-Request-Id (header, optional): 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-Match (header, optional): The ETag a write is conditional on. A stale validator is 412 precondition-failed.

## Response 204

## Errors
- 403 forbidden-by-policy | insufficient-permission | insufficient-token-scope: Forbidden.
- 412 precondition-failed: Precondition failed.
- 400 idempotency-key-required | invalid-cursor | invalid-query-parameter | malformed-request | unsupported-parameter: Bad request.
- 401 token-expired | unauthenticated: Unauthenticated.
- 404 endpoint-not-found | resource-not-found: Not found.
- 406 not-acceptable: Not acceptable.
- 429 rate-limit-exceeded: Too many requests.
- 500 internal-error: Server error.
- 503 tenant-unavailable: Service unavailable.

## Example
```bash
curl -X DELETE \
  'https://<your-url>/api/v2/tasks/1' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'
```