# Content commands: update, delete

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

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

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

### Content.update
Changes the given properties of a Content. [Verb page](/business/nouns/content/update?interface=cli).

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

Emits `Content.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Content. |
| `title` | `string` | No | The headline. |
| `publishedAt` | `datetime` | No | When it went live. |
| `kind` | `string` | No | What the Content is, so each System reads its own kind. |

**Returns**

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

**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 Content.update --json '{"id":"content_HYlnoorBdP","title":"Leaseline Pro"}'
```

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

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

Emits `Content.deleted`.

**Inputs**

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

**Returns**

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

**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 Content.delete --json '{"id":"content_HYlnoorBdP"}'
```