# Update client

Update client is a command in the HeadHoncho API. Correct a client's name, phones or email. Only the fields you send change.

Page: https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/update_client | Part of the HeadHoncho API docs: https://headhoncho.app/docs/api | Machine-readable: https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/openapi.json | Everything in one file: https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/llms-full.txt

## The request

Reference for **Update client**, HeadHoncho API v1. It is a command, sent to the base address `https://api.headhoncho.app`.

`POST /api/v1/commands/update-client`

The key needs the **Jobs** area at **do**. An answered call costs 1 credit; a refusal costs nothing. See [credits](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#credits).

It runs the app's own command `update-client`. Send an `Idempotency-Key` header with every call: the same key with the same body returns the first answer and runs nothing twice. See [the model](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/model#idempotency).

## Parameters

| Name | Kind | Required | Description | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `client_id` | id, in the JSON body | Yes | From List clients. | `cli_9c40` |
| `name` | text, in the JSON body | No | At least 2 characters. | `Ron Azoulay` |
| `phone` | text, in the JSON body | No | Any format; stored as E.164. Must not belong to another client. | None |
| `secondary_phone` | text, in the JSON body | No | A second phone, or empty to clear it. | None |
| `email` | text, in the JSON body | No | The email, or empty to clear it. | None |

## Try it with your key

Paste your key and change the values. The box builds the call as a cURL line and a fetch line, ready to copy. It never sends anything itself.

Paste your key on the web page and it fills a cURL line and a fetch line with your key and the example values. The page never sends the key anywhere. The same lines with a placeholder key are under Examples below.

## What comes back

accepted, client_id, name, position and changed: the fields that moved.

It never deletes anything. It changes only what the command names, and it writes the change to the job's history with who asked for it.

## Every field in the answer

Types are read from the example answer. Money is a plain number in the company's currency. A time carries its offset from UTC (`Z` is UTC). Ids are opaque text. A field with no line of its own here has its name spelled out; the common fields mean the same on every page.

| Field | Type | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `accepted` | true or false | True when the command ran. A command that cannot run is an error instead. |
| `client_id` | id (text) | The id of the client. |
| `position` | whole number | Where the change landed in the event log. Pass it as `after` on a read to see your own write. |
| `name` | text | The name, as the app shows it. |
| `changed` | list of text | The changed. |

## Needs every company

The client book is the whole workspace's, not one company's. A credential that reaches only some companies is refused with no_access, so it can never read or change a person who also belongs to a company it cannot see.

## Errors that apply

| Code | Status | What it means |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [`missing_key`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#missing_key) | 401 | Send your key as Authorization: Bearer hh_live_... |
| [`unknown_key`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#unknown_key) | 401 | That key is not one we issued, or it was revoked. |
| [`no_access`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#no_access) | 403 | This credential does not reach that. Ask the person who made it for access. |
| [`read_only`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#read_only) | 403 | This credential may read this area but not change it. |
| [`not_found`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#not_found) | 404 | No such record in the companies this credential reaches. |
| [`invalid`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#invalid) | 422 | Some fields were refused. See fields. |
| [`missing_idempotency_key`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#missing_idempotency_key) | 400 | Send an Idempotency-Key header on every command. |
| [`idempotency_mismatch`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#idempotency_mismatch) | 409 | This Idempotency-Key was used with a different body. |
| [`idempotency_in_progress`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#idempotency_in_progress) | 409 | A command with this Idempotency-Key is still running. Wait a moment and send it again. |
| [`no_credits`](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors#no_credits) | 402 | Out of credits. Top up on Settings › Credits, or turn on auto top-up. |

## Related

- [Create client](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/create_client): Add a client to the book before they have a job. One phone number is one client.
- [Delete client](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/delete_client): Erase a person from the book. Their jobs stay, but lose the name and phone. It cannot be undone.
- The same records in the app: [the Jobs panel](https://headhoncho.app/docs/jobs).
- How the API fits together: [the model](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/model), [API keys](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/keys), [errors](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/errors) and [the MCP server](https://headhoncho.app/docs/api/mcp).

## Examples

### Answer

```json
{
  "accepted": true,
  "client_id": "cli_9c40",
  "position": 88502,
  "name": "Ron Azoulay",
  "changed": [
    "name"
  ]
}
```

### cURL

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.headhoncho.app/api/v1/commands/update-client" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer hh_live_..." \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: 6f1d2c9e-1b7a-4c1e-9a52-0d3f8e4b7a10" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "client_id": "cli_9c40",
  "name": "Ron Azoulay"
}'
```

### Python

```python
import requests
import uuid

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.headhoncho.app/api/v1/commands/update-client",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer hh_live_...",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "client_id": "cli_9c40",
        "name": "Ron Azoulay",
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())
```

### JavaScript

```javascript
const response = await fetch("https://api.headhoncho.app/api/v1/commands/update-client", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: "Bearer hh_live_...",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "client_id": "cli_9c40",
    "name": "Ron Azoulay"
  }),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
```

### Your AI

```text
Tool: update_client
Arguments: client_id (id, required), name (text, optional), phone (text, optional), secondary_phone (text, optional), email (text, optional)
Access: do on Jobs
Hints: readOnly=false, destructive=false, idempotent=true, openWorld=false
Try asking: "Using HeadHoncho, update client with client_id cli_9c40 and name Ron Azoulay."
```