# Entitlement commands: update, delete

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

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

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

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

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

Emits `Entitlement.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Entitlement. |
| `verb` | [Verb](/business/nouns/verb) | No | The Verb it grants. |
| `limit` | [Limit](/business/nouns/limit) | No | The Limit that bounds it. |
| `kind` | `string` | No | Computed, never set: `feature`, or `limit` when a Limit bounds it. |

**Returns**

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

**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 Entitlement.update --json '{"id":"ent_7MQACmrzGj","verb":"verb_hlkWBvrAyZ"}'
```

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

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

Emits `Entitlement.deleted`.

**Inputs**

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

**Returns**

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

**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 Entitlement.delete --json '{"id":"ent_7MQACmrzGj"}'
```