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title: "Remove dependency — GanttFather API"
description: "Remove one predecessor by id."
canonical: "https://ganttfather.com/docs/api/remove-dependency/"
locale: "en"
category: "product"
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# Remove dependency — GanttFather API

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 Dependencies / **Remove dependency**

# Remove dependency

 DELETE

 Updated Jul 4, 2026

 Removes a single predecessor link, leaving the task’s other dependencies untouched.

 On success the API returns 204 No Content if the link existed and was removed, or 404 if the task and predecessor weren’t linked.

## Path parameters

 Name Type Required Description

 taskId string (uuid) Yes The dependent task.

 predecessorId string (uuid) Yes The predecessor to unlink.

 curl -X DELETE https://api.ganttfather.com/v1/tasks/{taskId}/dependencies/{predecessorId} \
 -H "Authorization: Bearer glt_YOUR_TOKEN"

 Response 204 No Content

 HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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