# Flow commands: update, delete

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

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

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

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

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

Emits `Flow.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Flow. |
| `persona` | [Persona](/business/nouns/persona) | No | The Persona it guides; its Role decides which Verbs each step offers. |
| `offer` | [Offer](/business/nouns/offer) | No | The Offer whose activation Event ends the Flow; time to value reads from first step to that Event. |
| `steps` | list of [Dashboard](/business/nouns/dashboard) | No | The Dashboards in order, first run first, each ending in the Verb that opens the next. |

**Returns**

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

**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 Flow.update --json '{"id":"flow_uuJzIzjvrp","persona":"persona_YdpO6wSexq"}'
```

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

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

Emits `Flow.deleted`.

**Inputs**

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

**Returns**

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

**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 Flow.delete --json '{"id":"flow_uuJzIzjvrp"}'
```