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Assistants

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Delete assistant

Deprecated

$ openai beta:assistants delete

DELETE/assistants/{assistant_id}

Delete an assistant.

ParametersExpand Collapse

--assistant-id: string

The ID of the assistant to delete.

ReturnsExpand Collapse

assistant_deleted: object { id, deleted, object }

id: string

deleted: boolean

object: "assistant.deleted"

Delete assistant

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CLI Tool

openai beta:assistants delete \
  --api-key 'My API Key' \
  --assistant-id assistant_id

{
  "id": "asst_abc123",
  "object": "assistant.deleted",
  "deleted": true
}

Returns Examples

{
  "id": "asst_abc123",
  "object": "assistant.deleted",
  "deleted": true
}