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# forget • AI Agent SDK

> forget: Delete memories by id or matching query; returns count deleted.

# forget

Method

> This is a method of the [**Memory**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/classes/Memory.md) class in the [**memory**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/memory.md) module.

Delete memories by id or matching query; returns count deleted.

Convenience wrapper over :meth:`delete_memory` /
:meth:`delete_memories_matching`. Provide exactly one of
`memory_id` or `query`.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def forget() -> int
```

### Returns

**Returns** `int`

The result of the operation.

## Uses

* `ValueError`
* `delete_memory`
* `kwargs.setdefault`
* `delete_memories_matching`

## Used By

* [`DakeraMemoryAdapter.delete_memory`](../functions/DakeraMemoryAdapter-delete_memory)

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/memory/memory.py#L1736)
>
> `praisonaiagents/memory/memory.py` at line 1736


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