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# Purge Acknowledged • AI Agent SDK

> purge_acknowledged: Remove old acknowledged messages from the store.

# purge\_acknowledged

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> This is a method of the [**DeliveryGuaranteeProtocol**](../classes/DeliveryGuaranteeProtocol) class in the [**protocols**](../modules/protocols) module.

Remove old acknowledged messages from the store.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
async def purge_acknowledged(max_age_seconds: int) -> int
```

## Parameters

<ParamField query="max_age_seconds" type="int" required={false} default="86400">
  No description available.
</ParamField>

### Returns

<ResponseField name="Returns" type="int">
  Number of messages purged
</ResponseField>

## Source

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