--- layout: docs page_title: policy delete - Command description: |- The "policy delete" command deletes the policy named NAME in the Vault server. Once the policy is deleted, all tokens associated with the policy are affected immediately. --- > [!IMPORTANT] > **Documentation Update:** Product documentation, which were located in this repository under `/website`, are now located in [`hashicorp/web-unified-docs`](https://github.com/hashicorp/web-unified-docs), colocated with all other product documentation. Contributions to this content should be done in the `web-unified-docs` repo, and not this one. Changes made to `/website` content in this repo will not be reflected on the developer.hashicorp.com website. # policy delete The `policy delete` command deletes the policy named NAME in the Vault server. Once the policy is deleted, all tokens associated with the policy are affected immediately. Note that it is not possible to delete the "default" or "root" policies. These are built-in policies. ## Examples Delete the policy named "my-policy": ```shell-session $ vault policy delete my-policy ``` ## Usage There are no flags beyond the [standard set of flags](/vault/docs/commands) included on all commands.