# finalize

URL: /business/nouns/video/finalize · Id: `verb:Video.finalize` · Call: `await $.Video.finalize({ … })` (SDK) or the `do` tool at `https://api.sb/mcp`. Inputs says what to pass, Outputs what returns, When it waits who approves.

> Finalize lifts a Video’s draft mark once every claim it makes reads from a live record, so its cuts can be published.

Finalize lifts a [Video](/business/nouns/video)’s draft mark once every claim it makes reads from a live record, so its cuts can be published.

## Inputs
| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `video` | [Video](/business/nouns/video) | Yes | The rendered Video to finalize. |

## Outputs
| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `video` | [Video](/business/nouns/video) | Yes | The Video, in status `Final`. |

## Effects
- Emits [`Video.finalized`](/business/events/Video.finalized).
- Performed by the [Video Producer](/agents/marketing/video-producer).
- A Video with an unsettled claim keeps status `Draft` and cannot be published.

## Refuses when
| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | [Video.finalize](/business/nouns/video/finalize) |

## When it waits
| Gate | Default |
| --- | --- |
| Decision class | Low: two-way, nothing at stake |
| [Delay window](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/one-way-windows) | None: it runs once review passes. |
| Limit | The call [Limit](/business/nouns/limit) of the [Permission](/business/nouns/permission) it runs under. |
| Over the Limit | It waits `pending` for an [Approval](/business/nouns/approval) from the [Founder](/agents/founding/founder). Approved, it runs; refused, it ends `refused` with [`limit-exceeded`](/code/api/errors/limit-exceeded); unanswered by its deadline, it ends `canceled`. |

## Example

**Ask**

```text
Finalize the latest video.
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/routewise.dev/videos/video_1/finalize \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/routewise.dev",
  "video": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/routewise.dev/videos/video_1",
    "$type": "Video",
    "status": "Draft",
    "timeline": {},
    "brand": "brand_1"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/routewise.dev/actions/action_1",
    "operation": "Video.finalize",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/routewise.dev/actions/action_1"
  }
}
```

**SDK**

```ts
import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

const video = await $.Video.finalize({ video: 'video_1' })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Video.finalize --json '{"video":"video_1"}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Video.finalize({ video: 'video_1' })"
  }
}
```