# Audience commands: update, delete

URL: /code/cli/audience/records-update · Id: `page:code/cli/audience/records-update`

> The Audience Verbs update, delete as CLI commands, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Audience](/business/nouns/audience), one group of [Audience commands](/code/cli/audience).

### Audience.update
Changes the given properties of an Audience. [Verb page](/business/nouns/audience/update?interface=cli).

```text
npx startup-builder do Audience.update --json '<input>' [--try | --send | --do]
```

Emits `Audience.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Audience. |
| `type` | list of [Noun](/business/nouns/noun) | No | The Nouns this Thing is an instance of. |
| `outside` | `json` | No | The ids this Thing has in outside tools, one per Integration, so a re-run matches instead of duplicating. |
| `query` | `json` | No | The saved query that defines a dynamic Collection. |
| `size` | `integer` | No | How many people match. |

**Returns**

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

**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
npx startup-builder do Audience.update --json '{"id":"audience_vmVkEYrXCN","size":1}'
```

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

```text
npx startup-builder do Audience.delete --json '<input>' [--try | --send | --do]
```

Emits `Audience.deleted`.

**Inputs**

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

**Returns**

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

**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
npx startup-builder do Audience.delete --json '{"id":"audience_vmVkEYrXCN"}'
```