🗑️ Deleting & Pruning

Two tools in mcp-youtube cause permanent, irreversible deletion outside of clean-playlist's planned cleanup. Both refuse to run unless called with confirm: true.

remove-from-playlist

Permanently removes specific items from a playlist by playlist-item ID. Costs 50 quota units per item.

Without confirm: true, the tool returns an error instead of acting:

Error: confirm must be true to remove 3 item(s) — this permanently deletes playlist entries at 50 units each

With confirmation, items are removed one at a time; failures are collected separately rather than aborting the batch, and the response reports removed, failed, and quotaCost (removed.length * 50).

Note that playlistItemIds are playlist-item IDs, not video IDs — you get these from get-playlist or from a clean-playlist dry-run plan.

delete-playlist

Permanently deletes an entire playlist. Costs 50 quota units.

Without confirm: true:

Error: confirm must be true to permanently delete playlist PLxxxxxxxx

With confirmation, the response is:

{ "deleted": "PLxxxxxxxx", "quotaCost": 50 }

There is no undo for either tool — the confirm gate is the only safety net, so treat it as the last checkpoint before data loss.