---
title: "Update custom tool"
method: PATCH
path: "/api/custom-tools/{sid}"
tags: ["custom_tools"]
---

# Update custom tool

`PATCH /api/custom-tools/{sid}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://beta.getsales.io/integrations/v1`
- URL: `https://beta.getsales.io/integrations/v1/api/custom-tools/{sid}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer and API key in header `Team-SID`

Edit a tool: name, description, the connection, status, and the definition blocks, where a supplied request, input_schema or output_mapping replaces that block WHOLE (templates never merge) and the merged definition is validated again as at create. Callers pick the new definition on their next call: the row is read per execute, never snapshotted. At least one field, else 422 nothing_to_update.

Contract:
- MCP tool `update_custom_tool`, registry package `mcp.integrations/custom_tools`, mount `integrations.providers`.
- Operation `update`, response envelope `update`.
- Flags: none.

## Path parameters

- `sid` string, required: Custom tool sid (in_tl_...).

## Request body

- UpdateCustomToolRequest: Request body of `update_custom_tool`.
  - `name` string: New name, 1..255 chars.
  - `description` string, nullable: New description; null clears it.
  - `provider_connection_sid` string, nullable: A provider connection of provider custom this tool authenticates with (in_cn_...); null = a public API, no auth injected.
  - `request` object: Replaces the whole template.
    - `method` 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'PATCH' | 'DELETE', required: The HTTP method.
    - `url` string, required: https URL; scheme and host literal (no placeholders, default port, public DNS), placeholders in the path and query only.
    - `headers` object: Up to 20 headers; values may hold placeholders. Auth-shaped names (authorization, cookie, token, key...) and Content-Type are refused: auth comes from the connection.
    - `body` object, nullable: A JSON template; null on GET and DELETE. String leaves may hold placeholders; a leaf that IS {{key}} renders with the input's native type.
  - `input_schema` object[]: Replaces the whole input list.
    - `key` string, required: The placeholder name: lowercase, digits and underscores.
    - `type` 'string' | 'number' | 'boolean', required: string | number | boolean.
    - `required` boolean: true: a call without it fails as invalid_input.
  - `output_mapping` object: Replaces the whole mapping.
  - `status` 'on' | 'off': on | off.

## Response `200`

`update` success envelope.

- UpdateCustomToolResponse
  - `success` true, required
  - `operation` 'update', required
  - `item` object, required
    - `sid` string, required: Custom tool sid (in_tl_...).
    - `team_sid` string, required: The owning workspace (ts_tm_...).
    - `name` string, required: Unique within the team among live rows; what the tool pickers show.
    - `description` string, nullable, required: Free text, up to 2000 chars.
    - `provider_connection_sid` string, nullable, required: The connection the tool authenticates with (in_cn_...); null = no auth.
    - `request` object, required: The request template.
      - `method` 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'PATCH' | 'DELETE', required: The HTTP method.
      - `url` string, required: https URL; scheme and host literal (no placeholders, default port, public DNS), placeholders in the path and query only.
      - `headers` object: Up to 20 headers; values may hold placeholders. Auth-shaped names (authorization, cookie, token, key...) and Content-Type are refused: auth comes from the connection.
      - `body` object, nullable: A JSON template; null on GET and DELETE. String leaves may hold placeholders; a leaf that IS {{key}} renders with the input's native type.
    - `input_schema` object[], required: The declared inputs (up to 30).
      - `key` string, required: The placeholder name.
      - `type` string, required: string | number | boolean.
      - `required` boolean, required: Whether a call must bind it.
    - `output_mapping` object, required: name to dot-path into the response body (up to 20); {} = the raw body only.
    - `status` 'on' | 'off', required: off = the executor refuses it with a failed row (custom_tool_disabled).
    - `created_by` object, required: Who defined the tool.
      - `actor_type` 'user' | 'support' | 'api_key' | 'system' | 'agent', required
      - `actor_sid` string, nullable, required
      - `team_sid` string, required
      - `actor_name` string, nullable: The OAuth client that acted ("Claude", "n8n"); null for a user, an API key or a system job.
      - `oauth_client_sid` string, nullable: The acting OAuth client (id_oc_*); null off the OAuth path.
      - `reason` string, nullable: Why a system actor wrote the row (snapshot_capture_job, ...); null otherwise.
      - `permissions` object, required: Internal audit context: the grant set the actor held at write time. Not a contract.
      - `cluster_id` integer, nullable: Internal audit context: the cluster that served the write.
      - `trace_id` string, nullable: Internal audit context: the trace id of the request that wrote the row.
    - `deleted_by` object, nullable, required: Who deleted it; null while live.
      - `actor_type` 'user' | 'support' | 'api_key' | 'system' | 'agent', required
      - `actor_sid` string, nullable, required
      - `team_sid` string, required
      - `actor_name` string, nullable: The OAuth client that acted ("Claude", "n8n"); null for a user, an API key or a system job.
      - `oauth_client_sid` string, nullable: The acting OAuth client (id_oc_*); null off the OAuth path.
      - `reason` string, nullable: Why a system actor wrote the row (snapshot_capture_job, ...); null otherwise.
      - `permissions` object, required: Internal audit context: the grant set the actor held at write time. Not a contract.
      - `cluster_id` integer, nullable: Internal audit context: the cluster that served the write.
      - `trace_id` string, nullable: Internal audit context: the trace id of the request that wrote the row.
    - `created_at` string, required: ISO 8601 UTC.
    - `updated_at` string, required: ISO 8601 UTC.
    - `deleted_at` string, nullable, required: ISO 8601 UTC; null = live.
  - `updated_fields` string[], required
  - `previous_values` object, required
  - `kept_fields` string[]: The fields this write did not change because the person's own value stands on them (stamped person); read the item for what landed.
  - `meta` object, required
    - `trace_id` string, required: UUID v7; same 128-bit value as the X-Trace-Id header.
    - `span_id` string, required: 16 hex chars, root span of this request.
    - `timestamp` string, required: ISO 8601 UTC (Y-m-dTH:i:sZ), response time.
    - `duration_ms` integer, required: Server-side wall clock.
    - `team_sid` string, nullable: The team this call ran in (the token team, or the team_sid override). Null when unauthenticated; absent from pre-2026-08-20 backends.
    - `actor_type` string, nullable: user | agent | api_key | system. Null when unauthenticated; absent from pre-2026-08-20 backends.

## Other responses

- `4XX`: MCP error envelope. `error.code` is one of validation_failed, nothing_to_update, not_found, relation_not_found, invalid_transition, limit_exceeded, payment_required, duplicate_rejected, conflict, delete_blocked, unauthorized, forbidden, rate_limited, not_implemented.
- `5XX`: MCP error envelope with `error.code` internal_error or service_unavailable.

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