# Minimum Success Criteria routes: update, delete

URL: /code/api/minimum-success-criteria/records-update · Id: `page:code/api/minimum-success-criteria/records-update`

> The Minimum Success Criteria Verbs update, delete as api.sb routes, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Minimum Success Criteria](/business/nouns/minimum-success-criteria), one group of [Minimum Success Criteria routes](/code/api/minimum-success-criteria).

### MinimumSuccessCriteria.update
Changes the given properties of a Minimum Success Criteria. [Verb page](/business/nouns/minimum-success-criteria/update?interface=api).

```text
PATCH /{namespace}/minimum-success-criteria/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Body, as JSON: the other inputs. Emits `MinimumSuccessCriteria.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Minimum Success Criteria. |
| `objective` | `text` | No | The qualitative outcome. |
| `horizon` | `string` | No | One of `day`, `week`, `quarter`, `year`, or `three-years`. |
| `metric` | [Metric](/business/nouns/metric) | No | The Metric the number is measured in. |
| `value` | `number` | No | The number to reach. |
| `by` | `date` | No | The date it must be reached. |
| `fermi` | `json` | No | The Price, rates and volumes that show the number is reachable. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `minimumSuccessCriteria` | [Minimum Success Criteria](/business/nouns/minimum-success-criteria) | Yes | The Minimum Success Criteria. |

**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. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X PATCH https://api.sb/leaseline.app/minimum-success-criteria/msc_3UF8zdSOyQ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"metric":"metric_GXFHAlK100"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "minimumSuccessCriteria": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/minimum-success-criteria/msc_3UF8zdSOyQ",
    "$type": "MinimumSuccessCriteria",
    "objective": "Example objective",
    "metric": "metric_GXFHAlK100",
    "value": 1,
    "by": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "MinimumSuccessCriteria.update",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```

### MinimumSuccessCriteria.delete
Deletes a Minimum Success Criteria: a soft delete that keeps its history, undone by `Thing.restore`. [Verb page](/business/nouns/minimum-success-criteria/delete?interface=api).

```text
DELETE /{namespace}/minimum-success-criteria/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Emits `MinimumSuccessCriteria.deleted`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Minimum Success Criteria. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `minimumSuccessCriteria` | [Minimum Success Criteria](/business/nouns/minimum-success-criteria) | Yes | The Minimum Success Criteria. |

**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. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X DELETE https://api.sb/leaseline.app/minimum-success-criteria/msc_3UF8zdSOyQ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "minimumSuccessCriteria": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/minimum-success-criteria/msc_3UF8zdSOyQ",
    "$type": "MinimumSuccessCriteria",
    "objective": "Example objective",
    "metric": "metric_GXFHAlK100",
    "value": 1,
    "by": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "MinimumSuccessCriteria.delete",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```