# Issue programs: update, delete

URL: /code/mcp/issue/records-update · Id: `page:code/mcp/issue/records-update`

> The Issue Verbs update, delete as MCP do programs, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Issue](/business/nouns/issue), one group of [Issue programs](/code/mcp/issue).

### Issue.update
Changes the given properties of an Issue. [Verb page](/business/nouns/issue/update?interface=mcp).

```text
do: return await $.Issue.update(input)
```

Emits `Issue.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Issue. |
| `by` | [Worker](/business/nouns/worker) | No | The Worker that performed it. |
| `for` | [Party](/business/nouns/party) | No | The Party it was done on behalf of. |
| `via` | `string` | No | The Interface or request it arrived through. |
| `on` | `string` | No | The Action or Event that caused it, such as the failed attempt a retry follows. |
| `thing` | `string` | No | The record, at the Version the Action was decided against. |
| `input` | `json` | No | The input it was called with. |
| `createdAt` | `datetime` | No | When it was called. |
| `reserved` | `money` | No | The most this Action may cost, held against its Limits from the check until it settles, billed misses included. |
| `due` | `datetime` | No | When the Task is due. |
| `priority` | `integer` | No | Its rank in the inbox, highest first. |
| `recurrence` | `string` | No | The schedule a recurring duty repeats on. |
| `kind` | `string` | No | One of `bug`, `request`, or `question`. |
| `severity` | `string` | No | Set by triage; a vulnerability takes `critical`, `high`, `medium` or `low`, which sets `due`. An Incident keeps its own scale. |
| `advisory` | `string` | No | For a vulnerability: the public advisory it matches, with the affected package and range. |

**Returns**

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

**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**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Issue.update({ id: 'issue_vWekeqrXCN', kind: 'bug' })"
  }
}
```

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

```text
do: return await $.Issue.delete(input)
```

Emits `Issue.deleted`.

**Inputs**

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

**Returns**

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

**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**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Issue.delete({ id: 'issue_vWekeqrXCN' })"
  }
}
```