# confirmation_required

> This destructive action needs a typed confirmation. Deleting or overwriting something important needs you to type its name, so it cannot happen by accident or by a slip of an agent.

**This destructive action needs a typed confirmation.** Deleting or overwriting something important needs you to type its name, so it cannot happen by accident or by a slip of an agent.

- **HTTP status:** `422 Unprocessable Content`
- **CLI exit code:** `2` (the request or file is not valid)
- **Retry:** not as it is; the same request will fail the same way until the cause is fixed

## How to fix it

Repeat the request with confirm={name}.

1. Repeat the request with `confirm=<name>` (the exact name of the thing being changed).

Words in `{braces}` are filled in from the error response, which names the exact resource.

## What the response looks like

```json
{
  "type": "https://guv.dev/errors/confirmation_required",
  "title": "This destructive action needs a typed confirmation",
  "status": 422,
  "code": "confirmation_required",
  "detail": "Deleting or overwriting something important needs you to type its name, so it cannot happen by accident or by a slip of an agent.",
  "fix": "Repeat the request with confirm={name}.",
  "docs_url": "https://guv.dev/errors/confirmation_required",
  "request_id": "req_01jbx2m9k7q4r8t5v6w3y0z1rq"
}
```

The `code` field is stable: match on it, not on `title` or `detail`, which may be reworded.