--- layout: docs page_title: policy delete - Command sidebar_title: delete 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. --- # 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](/docs/commands) included on all commands.