---
title: "Activate Playbook"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/playbooks/{playbook_id}/activate"
tags: ["playbooks"]
---

# Activate Playbook

`POST /api/v1/playbooks/{playbook_id}/activate`

## Path parameters

- `playbook_id` string, uuid, required

## Request body

- PlaybookActivate — Toggle a playbook's active flag.
  - `is_active` boolean, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- PlaybookRead — A playbook summary row (carries a denormalized action count).
  - `id` string, uuid, required
  - `tenant_id` string, uuid, required
  - `name` string, required
  - `description` string, nullable
  - `list_id` string, uuid, required
  - `trigger` 'on_enter' | 'on_exit', required — Which group-membership transition arms a Playbook.
  - `is_active` boolean, required
  - `created_by_user_id` string, uuid, nullable
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required
  - `action_count` integer

## Other responses

- `404` — Playbook not found
- `422` — Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-09-03** `d65b8fefae34` — 2 info
  - added the optional property `detail/items/ctx` to the response with the `422` status
  - added the optional property `detail/items/input` to the response with the `422` status

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/getanana/apis/cleon-api/changes/api/v1/playbooks/:playbook_id/activate/post.md)

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