lore delete

Permanently remove a session and all its associated messages and links from the database. This operation is irreversible.

Usage

lore delete <SESSION> [OPTIONS]

Examples

# Delete a session by ID prefix (prompts for confirmation)
lore delete abc123

# Delete without the confirmation prompt
lore delete abc123 --force

Sample Output

$ lore delete c9731a91

Session c9731a91-4f2b-4e8a-9c3d-1a2b3c4d5e6f
  Tool:       claude-code
  Started:    2025-12-25 17:52:00
  Directory:  /Users/dev/myapp
  Branch:     main

This will permanently delete 566 messages and 1 links.
Delete session c9731a91? [y/N] y
Deleted session c9731a91 (566 messages, 1 links)

With --force, the confirmation prompt is skipped:

$ lore delete c9731a91 --force

Session c9731a91-4f2b-4e8a-9c3d-1a2b3c4d5e6f
  Tool:       claude-code
  Started:    2025-12-25 17:52:00
  Directory:  /Users/dev/myapp
  Branch:     main

This will permanently delete 566 messages and 1 links.
Deleted session c9731a91 (566 messages, 1 links)

Options

Option	Description
`--force`	Skip the confirmation prompt and delete immediately

Session ID Prefix

You only need to provide enough characters to uniquely identify a session:

# Full UUID
lore delete c9731a91-4f2b-4e8a-9c3d-1a2b3c4d5e6f

# Short prefix (if unique)
lore delete c9731a91

# Even shorter
lore delete c973

If the prefix matches multiple sessions, Lore lists the matches and asks for a more specific prefix.

What Gets Deleted

Deleting a session removes:

The session record
All of its captured messages
All of its links to git commits

The session’s original transcript files (for example, the tool’s own .jsonl files) are not touched. If the source files still exist, a later lore import may re-import the session.