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Soft delete

When an agent deletes a contact, an object or a document on etg24, the data is not destroyed.

Deleted means marked, not gone

Deletes on the platform are soft deletes almost everywhere: the record is marked as deleted rather than physically removed. For you this means an agent’s mistake is an inconvenience, not a disaster — the data still exists and can be restored.

Reversible by design

Because soft-deleted data remains in the system, a delete can be rolled back. The pattern is:

  1. Find the change in the change log — which agent, which entity, when.
  2. Disable the key if the agent is misbehaving.
  3. Roll back the soft-deleted data.

Guarded by scopes

Destructive actions are gated separately from ordinary writes: a key that can create and update documents still cannot delete them unless explicitly granted. Soft delete and strict scopes work together — the most damaging class of actions sits behind an extra gate, and even when it fires, the result is reversible.