How to Destroy Agents Using the Control Panel on DigitalOcean Inference

Validated on 26 Jun 2025 • Last edited on 8 May 2026

Inference provides a single control plane for managing inference workflows. It includes a Model Catalog where you can view available foundation models, including both DigitalOcean-hosted and third-party commercial models, compare model capabilities and pricing, use routing to match inference requests to the best-fit model, and run inference using serverless or dedicated deployments.

Destroy an Agent Using Automation

Destroying an agent using the DigitalOcean API requires the unique identifier of the agent you want to destroy. You can get a list of agents with their unique identifiers with the /v2/gen-ai/agents endpoint.

How to Destroy an Agent Using the DigitalOcean API
  1. Create a personal access token and save it for use with the API.
  2. Send a DELETE request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/gen-ai/agents/{uuid}.

cURL

Using cURL:

curl -X DELETE \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"  \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/gen-ai/agent/5581a586-a745-11ef-bf8f-4e013e2ddde4"

Destroy an Agent Using the Control Panel

To destroy an agent from the DigitalOcean Control Panel, click Agent Platform under INFERENCE in the left menu, then in the Agent Workspaces tab, select the workspace that contains the agent you want to destroy.

From the workspace’s Agents tab, find the agent you want to destroy, and then in the agent’s More menu, select Destroy. In the Destroy Agent window, type the agent’s name to confirm that you want to destroy the agent and then click Destroy.

Destroying an agent removes all endpoints for the agent, but does not delete attached knowledge bases, custom models, or agents that the deleted agent routed to. If you are routing to the deleted agent from other agents, you need to update the existing agent’s routing instructions.

Destroy an Agent Built Using Agent Development Kit

To learn how to destroy agent deployments, see Destroy an Agent Deployment.

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