# Worker commands: update, delete

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

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

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

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

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

Emits `Worker.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Worker. |
| `name` | `string` | No | The name the Worker goes by in a Startup. |
| `instructions` | `text` | No | How the Worker does its work. |

**Returns**

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

**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 Worker.update --json '{"id":"worker_whZFpOKWIV","name":"Leaseline"}'
```

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

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

Emits `Worker.deleted`.

**Inputs**

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

**Returns**

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

**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 Worker.delete --json '{"id":"worker_whZFpOKWIV"}'
```