# Flag commands: update, delete

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

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

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

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

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

Emits `Flag.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Flag. |
| `key` | `string` | No | The name code reads. |
| `rules` | `json` | No | Who gets which value, including percentage splits. |

**Returns**

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

**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 Flag.update --json '{"id":"flag_1YJLhjTlfx","key":"new-checkout"}'
```

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

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

Emits `Flag.deleted`.

**Inputs**

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

**Returns**

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

**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 Flag.delete --json '{"id":"flag_1YJLhjTlfx"}'
```