Delete Global Metadata Fields And Sections

What This Skill Covers

Use this skill for operational cleanup requests in global-metadata-enabled workspaces where support or engineering needs to delete:

• one or more metadata sections (KeyPointerSection)
• one or more metadata fields (KeyPointer)
• both sections and their associated fields

This is a staff-only / engineering workflow. It is not an end-user troubleshooting flow.

The important distinction is:

• deleting a section does not automatically mean the underlying metadata fields are safely cleaned up
• deleting a field requires checking whether any ContractKeyPointer rows still use it
• some key pointers cannot be safely bulk-deleted because they are computed or parent pointers
• before unlinking template_field_name or deleting fields, confirm whether variables still appear on workflow / frozen-workflow questionnaires (and optionally scan core_condition for intake references)