Delete a workspace work item type

DELETE/api/v2/workspaces/{slug}/work-item-types/{pk}/

Remove a work item type from the workspace. The type is shared, so the removal affects every project working from the workspace list. Check what still uses it before you call this.

A successful delete returns 204 with an empty body, so branch on the status code.

Workspace mode required

This write only succeeds while the workspace manages work item types at the workspace level. In project mode it returns 409 with code work_item_types_managed_at_project. See Work item type modes.

Path parameters

slug:requiredstring

The workspace slug. It appears in your Plane URLs. In https://app.plane.so/my-team/projects/, the slug is my-team.

pk:requiredstring (uuid)

The id of the work item type to delete.

Response shaping

fields:optionalstring

Comma-separated list of fields to return. Fields you don't request are left out of the response instead of coming back as null, so a missing key means you didn't ask for it and null means the value is null. id is always included, whether or not you name it.

Pass all to get every requestable field. An unknown field name returns 400 with the list of valid names and the closest match, so a typo is caught instead of being silently ignored.

Requestable here: created_at, description, external_id, external_source, governance_mode, id, is_active, is_active_in_project, is_default, is_default_in_project, is_epic, level, logo_props, name, project_ids, rollout, updated_at, updated_by_id.

See Sparse fields.

Scopes

workspaces.work_item_types:write

Errors

Status	Code	Cause
400	invalid_request	The request can't be processed as sent. See errors[].
401	unauthorized	Missing or invalid credentials.
402	payment_required	The feature this endpoint belongs to isn't enabled on your plan, or is switched off.
403	forbidden	Your role or token scope can't write workspace types.
404	not_found	No such type or workspace, or it's outside your tenant.
406	not_acceptable	The Accept header asks for a representation the API can't produce.
409	conflict	The type can't be deleted in its current state. The response detail says why.
413	payload_too_large	The request body is over the size limit.
415	unsupported_media_type	The Content-Type isn't one this endpoint accepts.
429	rate_limited	Throttled. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying.

A repeat delete returns 404

Delete is not idempotent in its response: the second call for the same id returns 404 not_found, because the type is already gone. Treat 404 on retry as success, not as an error to alert on.

Delete a workspace work item type

curl -X DELETE \
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/work-item-types/a3f52d07-8e19-4c6b-92d4-0b7e15c8f326/" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY"

import requests

response = requests.delete(
    "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/work-item-types/a3f52d07-8e19-4c6b-92d4-0b7e15c8f326/",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": "your-api-key"},
)
print(response.status_code)  # 204

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/work-item-types/a3f52d07-8e19-4c6b-92d4-0b7e15c8f326/",
  {
    method: "DELETE",
    headers: {
      "X-Api-Key": "your-api-key",
    },
  },
);
console.log(response.status); // 204

Response204

No content

Response409

{
  "type": "conflict",
  "code": "work_item_types_managed_at_project",
  "detail": "This workspace manages work item types at the project level. Delete the type on the project's work item types endpoint."
}

Consider deactivating instead

If you are only phasing the type out, set is_active: false with Update. That takes it out of pickers, keeps it resolvable for the work items that already carry it, and can be undone.