# Role commands: update, delete

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

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

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

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

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

Emits `Role.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Role. |
| `name` | `string` | No | The title of the seat. |
| `responsibilities` | `text` | No | The work the seat owns. |
| `approvals` | `json` | No | What waits for the founder: rules by action class (`spend`, `sign`, `publish`, `price`, `send`), each optionally above an amount in USD. |

**Returns**

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

**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 Role.update --json '{"id":"role_oloMFMUeCH","name":"Leaseline"}'
```

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

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

Emits `Role.deleted`.

**Inputs**

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

**Returns**

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

**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 Role.delete --json '{"id":"role_oloMFMUeCH"}'
```