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Memories

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Forget a memory

DELETE/v4/memories

Forget (soft delete) a memory entry. The memory is marked as forgotten but not permanently deleted.

Body ParametersJSONExpand Collapse

containerTag: string

Container tag / space identifier. Required to scope the operation.

maxLength100

id: optional string

ID of the memory entry to operate on

content: optional string

Exact content match of the memory entry to operate on. Use this when you don’t have the ID.

reason: optional string

Optional reason for forgetting this memory

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id: string

ID of the memory that was forgotten

forgotten: boolean

Indicates the memory was successfully forgotten

Forget a memory

HTTP

HTTP

TypeScript

Python

curl https://api.supermemory.ai/v4/memories \
    -X DELETE \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUPERMEMORY_API_KEY"

200 example

{
  "id": "mem_abc123",
  "forgotten": true
}

Returns Examples

200 example

{
  "id": "mem_abc123",
  "forgotten": true
}