> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.lighton.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Remove a tag from a file

> Remove a specific tag from a file.

**Behavior:**
- Removes the specified tag from the document
- Works for both manually assigned and auto-assigned tags
- Idempotent: returns 204 even if tag was not on the document

**Validation:**
- Returns 403 if user doesn't have permission to edit the document
- Returns 404 if document doesn't exist
- Returns 404 if tag doesn't exist or doesn't belong to user's company




## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/api-console.yaml delete /api/v3/files/{id}/tags/{tag_id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: LightOn API
  version: 3.15.0 (v1)
  description: >-
    LightOn gives you an API to search, parse, and ingest documents at scale.
    Build knowledge-retrieval pipelines without managing vector databases or OCR
    models.
servers:
  - url: https://api.lighton.ai
security: []
tags:
  - name: Ask
    description: >-
      Retrieval-augmented generation: search your indexed corpus and generate an
      LLM answer grounded in the retrieved passages. Supports streaming (SSE)
      and synchronous modes.
  - name: Search
    description: >-
      Hybrid vector + text retrieval over your indexed corpus. Returns ranked
      passages with provenance (file, page range, workspace). Optional reranking
      and vision mode.
  - name: Files
    description: Upload, list, fetch, and delete documents indexed in your workspaces.
  - name: Facets
    description: >-
      Organise documents with hierarchical content types and custom attributes
      per file. Start from starter templates or build your own classification
      schema from scratch.
  - name: Tags
    description: >-
      Manage flat, company-wide labels used to scope search and group content
      across workspaces.
  - name: Workspaces
    description: >-
      Create and manage workspaces — the access-controlled containers your
      documents live in.
  - name: Parse
    description: >-
      Convert documents into structured Markdown — PDFs, images, Office files,
      and HTML. Synchronous endpoint capped at 20 MB / 15 pages.
  - name: Extract
    description: >-
      Pull typed fields out of documents using a JSON Schema you provide. Sync
      mode for small documents (≤20 MB / 15 pages); async mode for larger jobs
      (≤100 MB / 1000 pages) with polling on a job ID.
  - name: API Keys
    description: >-
      Provision and revoke API keys used to authenticate against the Console
      API.
  - name: Budget
    description: >-
      Manage your organization's monthly spend budget and alert thresholds. Set
      a hard cap that blocks API requests when reached, and configure email
      notifications at custom spend percentages.
paths:
  /api/v3/files/{id}/tags/{tag_id}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - Files
      summary: Remove a tag from a file
      description: |
        Remove a specific tag from a file.

        **Behavior:**
        - Removes the specified tag from the document
        - Works for both manually assigned and auto-assigned tags
        - Idempotent: returns 204 even if tag was not on the document

        **Validation:**
        - Returns 403 if user doesn't have permission to edit the document
        - Returns 404 if document doesn't exist
        - Returns 404 if tag doesn't exist or doesn't belong to user's company
      operationId: api_v3_files_tags_destroy
      parameters:
        - in: path
          name: id
          schema:
            type: integer
          required: true
        - in: path
          name: tag_id
          schema:
            type: integer
          required: true
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Tag removed successfully (or was already not on the file)
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/APIV3ErrorResponse'
              examples:
                Unauthorized:
                  value:
                    id: null
                    code: 401
                    error: unauthorized
                    detail: >-
                      Authentication credentials were not provided or are
                      invalid.
                    doc_url: https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#unauthorized
          description: Authentication credentials were not provided or are invalid
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/APIV3ErrorResponse'
              examples:
                Forbidden:
                  value:
                    id: null
                    code: 403
                    error: insufficient_permissions
                    detail: You do not have permission to perform this action.
                    doc_url: >-
                      https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#insufficient_permissions
          description: Insufficient permissions
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/APIV3ErrorResponse'
              examples:
                NotFound:
                  value:
                    id: null
                    code: 404
                    error: not_found
                    detail: The requested resource was not found.
                    doc_url: https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#not_found
                  summary: Not Found
          description: The requested resource was not found
        '503':
          description: >-
            API is under maintenance. Check `GET /api/v3/system/status` for
            active periods and retry.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceMaintenance503'
      security:
        - bearerAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    APIV3ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: >-
            Job/resource id when one already exists (useful for async error
            diagnosis); null otherwise.
        code:
          type: integer
          description: HTTP status code
        error:
          type: string
          description: Error code used by the UI as a translation key
        detail:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message for developers
        doc_url:
          type: string
          description: Link to the error-code documentation page
      required:
        - code
        - detail
        - doc_url
        - error
        - id
    ServiceMaintenance503:
      type: object
      description: >-
        Returned by the maintenance middleware when the requested endpoint is
        blocked.
      required:
        - detail
        - error
        - mode
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
          example: System is under maintenance.
        error:
          type: string
          example: service_maintenance
        mode:
          type: string
          enum:
            - full_shutdown
            - warning_banner
          description: >-
            `full_shutdown` blocks all traffic; `warning_banner` also blocks and
            shows a dismissible toast.
        reason:
          type: string
          description: Operator-supplied maintenance reason, if any.
        started_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        endpoint_category_names:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: >-
            Non-empty only for category-scoped periods. Empty means all
            endpoints are affected.
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`, where
        `<token>` is your auth token.

````