# Task routes: update, delete

URL: /code/api/task/records-update · Id: `page:code/api/task/records-update`

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

Reference for [Task](/business/nouns/task), one group of [Task routes](/code/api/task).

### Task.update
Changes the given properties of a Task. [Verb page](/business/nouns/task/update?interface=api).

```text
PATCH /{namespace}/tasks/{id}
```

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

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Task. |
| `by` | [Worker](/business/nouns/worker) | No | The Worker that performed it. |
| `for` | [Party](/business/nouns/party) | No | The Party it was done on behalf of. |
| `via` | `string` | No | The Interface or request it arrived through. |
| `on` | `string` | No | The Action or Event that caused it, such as the failed attempt a retry follows. |
| `thing` | `string` | No | The record, at the Version the Action was decided against. |
| `input` | `json` | No | The input it was called with. |
| `createdAt` | `datetime` | No | When it was called. |
| `reserved` | `money` | No | The most this Action may cost, held against its Limits from the check until it settles, billed misses included. |
| `due` | `datetime` | No | When the Task is due. |
| `priority` | `integer` | No | Its rank in the inbox, highest first. |
| `recurrence` | `string` | No | The schedule a recurring duty repeats on. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `task` | [Task](/business/nouns/task) | Yes | The Task. |

**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/tasks/task_tVPKjporKn \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"due":"2026-10-22T12:00:00Z"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "task": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/tasks/task_tVPKjporKn",
    "$type": "Task",
    "status": "pending",
    "mode": "try",
    "due": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Task.update",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```

### Task.delete
Deletes a Task: a soft delete that keeps its history, undone by `Thing.restore`. [Verb page](/business/nouns/task/delete?interface=api).

```text
DELETE /{namespace}/tasks/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Emits `Task.deleted`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Task. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `task` | [Task](/business/nouns/task) | Yes | The Task. |

**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/tasks/task_tVPKjporKn \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "task": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/tasks/task_tVPKjporKn",
    "$type": "Task",
    "status": "pending",
    "mode": "try"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Task.delete",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```