# Persona commands: update, delete

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

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

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

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

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

Emits `Persona.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Persona. |
| `job` | `text` | No | What they come to get done. |
| `from` | `string` | No | Lineage: the slot it compiles from, as `Hypothesis#<slot>@v<version>`. |

**Returns**

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

**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 Persona.update --json '{"id":"persona_YdpO6wSexq","from":"Hypothesis#approach@v1"}'
```

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

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

Emits `Persona.deleted`.

**Inputs**

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

**Returns**

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

**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 Persona.delete --json '{"id":"persona_YdpO6wSexq"}'
```