# Handle commands: update

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

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

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

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

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

Emits `Handle.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Handle. |
| `venue` | `string` | No | The venue it lives on, by id. |
| `name` | `string` | No | The name as the platform shows it, such as `@example`. |
| `shared` | `boolean` | No | True for a Studio account shared across sibling Startups; every Post names the Startup it speaks for. |
| `agent` | `boolean` | No | True when an Agent runs it; its bio says so. |
| `integration` | [Integration](/business/nouns/integration) | No | The Integration credential it publishes through. |

**Returns**

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

**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 Handle.update --json '{"id":"handle_FcnNwYQujc","name":"Leaseline"}'
```