Delete a workspace work item type

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

Remove a work item type from the workspace. Because the type is shared, the removal is felt by 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. There is nothing to parse; 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.

Scopes

workspaces.work_item_types:write

Errors

Status	Code	Cause
400	validation_error	The request can't be processed as sent. See errors[].
401	unauthorized	Missing or invalid credentials.
403	forbidden	Your role or token scope can't write workspace types.
404	resource_not_found	No such type or workspace, or it's outside your tenant.
409	work_item_types_managed_at_project	The workspace manages types at the project level. Use the project endpoint.
409	conflict	The type can't be deleted in its current state — the response detail says why.
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 resource_not_found, because the type is already gone. Treat 404 on retry as success rather than as an error worth alerting 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": "https://api.plane.so/errors/work-item-types-managed-at-project",
  "title": "Conflict",
  "status": 409,
  "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 the type is only being phased out, is_active: false via Update takes it out of pickers while keeping it resolvable for the work items that already carry it — and you can undo it.