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# community.membership.removed

> A member left or was removed.

# community.membership.removed

> Generated from COPE public event contracts. Do not edit this page by hand.

Fires when a membership ends (self-leave or admin removal).

## Delivery Contract

| Field           | Value                                                                                |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Encoding        | CloudEvents 1.0 structured JSON                                                      |
| Delivery        | At least once                                                                        |
| Idempotency     | Use the CloudEvents `source` + `id` tuple, or COPE `idempotency_key` when available. |
| Source          | `cope.community`                                                                     |
| Subject pattern | `membership:<identifier>`                                                            |
| Category        | Community                                                                            |
| Availability    | Available in the public webhook reference.                                           |
| Schema title    | community.membership.removed v1 payload                                              |
| Schema ID       | `https://schemas.cope.com/events/community.membership.removed/v1`                    |

## Payload Fields

| Field              | Required | Type      | Allowed Values | Description |   |
| ------------------ | -------- | --------- | -------------- | ----------- | - |
| `community_id`     | yes      | `string`  | -              | -           |   |
| `remaining_grants` | no       | `integer` | -              | -           |   |
| `removed_by`       | no       | \`string  | null\`         | -           | - |
| `removed_via`      | no       | \`string  | null\`         | -           | - |
| `rows_removed`     | no       | \`integer | null\`         | -           | - |
| `user_id`          | yes      | `string`  | -              | -           |   |

## Example CloudEvent

```json theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"}}
{
  "data": {
    "community_id": "example_id",
    "user_id": "example_id"
  },
  "datacontenttype": "application/json",
  "dataschema": "https://schemas.cope.com/events/community.membership.removed/v1",
  "id": "community.membership.removed:example",
  "idempotency_key": "community.membership.removed:example",
  "source": "cope.community",
  "specversion": "1.0",
  "subject": "membership:example",
  "time": "2026-05-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "type": "community.membership.removed"
}
```

## Compatibility

Fields may be added within the same major version. Removing or changing the meaning of a documented field requires a new event version.