From 97e480f561c624d2f91803a7d99f771a0feecb43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronan Donnelly <ronan.donnelly@ymail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:35:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(secrets): default secrets delete --type to shared to
 match secrets set

---
 packages/cmd/secrets.go      |  2 +-
 packages/cmd/secrets_test.go | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 packages/cmd/secrets_test.go

diff --git a/packages/cmd/secrets.go b/packages/cmd/secrets.go
index 4d37065a..2b9d4c37 100644
--- a/packages/cmd/secrets.go
+++ b/packages/cmd/secrets.go
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ func init() {
 	secretsSetCmd.Flags().Bool("show-values", false, "reveal secret values in the output table instead of masking them")
 	util.AddOutputFlagsToCmd(secretsSetCmd, "The output to format the secrets in.")
 
-	secretsDeleteCmd.Flags().String("type", "personal", "the type of secret to delete: personal or shared  (default: personal)")
+	secretsDeleteCmd.Flags().String("type", util.SECRET_TYPE_SHARED, "the type of secret to delete: personal or shared")
 	secretsDeleteCmd.Flags().String("token", "", "Fetch secrets using service token or machine identity access token")
 	secretsDeleteCmd.Flags().String("projectId", "", "manually set the projectId to delete secrets from when using machine identity based auth")
 	secretsDeleteCmd.Flags().String("path", "/", "get secrets within a folder path")
diff --git a/packages/cmd/secrets_test.go b/packages/cmd/secrets_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4d809b4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cmd/secrets_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package cmd
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/Infisical/infisical-merge/packages/util"
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestSecretsTypeFlagDefaults(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name string
+		cmd  *cobra.Command
+	}{
+		{"secrets set", secretsSetCmd},
+		{"secrets delete", secretsDeleteCmd},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range tests {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			flag := tc.cmd.Flags().Lookup("type")
+			require.NotNil(t, flag, "the type flag should be registered")
+			assert.Equal(t, util.SECRET_TYPE_SHARED, flag.DefValue)
+		})
+	}
+}