# Delete a message

Retracts one message from a thread. A tombstone rather than a delete, so the transcript's shape stays honest. The author may remove their own; anybody else needs the thread's manage level and is refused with 403.

Access class: `workspace`.

## Endpoint

`DELETE /v1/comms/messages/{id}`

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| id | path | string | Yes |
| body | query | null | No |
| params | query | object | No |
| query | query | object | No |

## Responses

### 200

the action's answer

Content type: `application/json`.

```json
{
  "status": "string"
}
```

### default

a refusal: `{"error": "<what a person needs to read>"}`. 401 no credential, 402 the plan does not include this, 403 the seat does not, 404 the thing does not exist or is not yours to see.

Content type: `application/json`.

```json
{
  "error": "string"
}
```