> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://openrouter.ai/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Delete an intern > Starts safe teardown of the intern, its runtime and its private vault. The API key selects the caller, workspace and visible interns. There is no default workspace fallback. Requests on regional hostnames such as `eu.openrouter.ai` are refused. [API key](/docs/api-reference/authentication) required. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi/openapi.yaml delete /interns/{internId} openapi: 3.1.0 info: contact: email: support@openrouter.ai name: OpenRouter Support url: https://openrouter.ai/docs description: OpenAI-compatible API with additional OpenRouter features license: name: MIT url: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT title: OpenRouter API version: 1.0.0 servers: - description: Production server url: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 x-speakeasy-server-id: production security: - apiKey: [] tags: - description: API key management endpoints name: API Keys - description: Analytics and usage endpoints name: Analytics - description: Anthropic Messages endpoints name: Anthropic Messages - description: BYOK endpoints name: BYOK - description: Benchmarks endpoints name: Benchmarks - description: Chat completion endpoints name: Chat - description: Task classification market-share endpoints name: Classifications - description: Containers endpoints name: Containers - description: Credit management endpoints name: Credits - description: >- Public OpenRouter usage datasets. Data returned by these endpoints is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): reuse and republish it, including commercially, with attribution to OpenRouter. name: Datasets - description: Text embedding endpoints name: Embeddings - description: Endpoint information name: Endpoints - description: Files endpoints name: Files - description: Generation history endpoints name: Generations - description: Guardrails endpoints name: Guardrails - description: Images endpoints name: Images - description: >- Create, inspect, update, provision, suspend and delete OpenRouter interns through an API key, and talk to them: the chat route streams OpenAI-compatible completions from one intern, pausing as an `openrouter.provide_input` tool call when the intern needs your permission or an answer. Available to interns programme members; other callers receive 404. See https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/ori/intern-chat. name: Interns - description: Model information endpoints name: Models - description: OAuth authentication endpoints name: OAuth - description: Observability endpoints name: Observability - description: Organization endpoints name: Organization - description: Presets endpoints name: Presets - description: Provider information endpoints name: Providers - description: Rerank endpoints name: Rerank - description: OpenAI-compatible Responses API endpoints name: Responses - description: >- Management endpoints for SCIM group-to-workspace mappings, authenticated with a management key. These are not the SCIM 2.0 connector endpoints for your identity provider. In your identity provider, enter the SCIM endpoint URL shown when you enable provisioning under Settings > Members > SCIM Mappings. See https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/scim-mappings#set-up-provisioning. name: SCIM - description: Speech-to-text endpoints name: STT x-displayName: Transcriptions - description: Text-to-speech endpoints name: TTS x-displayName: Speech - description: >- Store host-bound secrets for a workspace or for one intern. Scope is selected by the API key. Responses return metadata only, never secret values. See https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/ori/vault. name: Vault - description: Video Generation endpoints name: Video Generation - description: Workspaces endpoints name: Workspaces externalDocs: description: OpenRouter Documentation url: https://openrouter.ai/docs paths: /interns/{internId}: delete: tags: - Interns summary: Delete an intern description: >- Starts safe teardown of the intern, its runtime and its private vault. The API key selects the caller, workspace and visible interns. There is no default workspace fallback. Requests on regional hostnames such as `eu.openrouter.ai` are refused. [API key](/docs/api-reference/authentication) required. operationId: deleteIntern parameters: - description: ID of an intern visible to the authenticated API key. in: path name: internId required: true schema: description: ID of an intern visible to the authenticated API key. example: 7c9e6679-7425-40de-944b-e07fc1f90ae7 minLength: 1 type: string responses: '202': content: application/json: example: deleting: true schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteInternResponse' description: The operation was accepted. '401': content: application/json: example: error: code: 401 message: Invalid or missing API key schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternLifecycleError' description: Missing, unknown or provisioning API key. '403': content: application/json: example: error: code: 403 message: Forbidden schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternLifecycleError' description: >- The key owner no longer has access, or the request used a regional hostname. '404': content: application/json: example: error: code: not_found message: Intern not found schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternLifecycleError' description: >- The caller is outside the Intern API programme, the intern is hidden, or lifecycle writes are disabled. '408': content: application/json: example: error: code: 408 message: Request timed out schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternLifecycleError' description: The request exceeded its route deadline. '409': content: application/json: example: error: code: intern_busy message: The intern is not in a state that allows this operation schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternLifecycleError' description: The intern is not in a state that allows this operation. '500': content: application/json: example: error: code: internal_error message: The request could not be completed schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternLifecycleError' description: The request could not be completed. '502': content: application/json: example: error: code: upstream_unavailable message: The intern service could not be reached, retry the request schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternLifecycleError' description: The intern service could not accept the operation. security: - apiKey: [] components: schemas: DeleteInternResponse: additionalProperties: false properties: deleting: const: true type: boolean required: - deleting type: object InternLifecycleError: additionalProperties: false description: Intern lifecycle request failure. example: error: code: not_found message: Intern not found properties: error: additionalProperties: false properties: code: anyOf: - type: string - type: integer message: type: string required: - code - message type: object required: - error type: object securitySchemes: apiKey: description: API key as bearer token in Authorization header scheme: bearer type: http ````