# Update workflows

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/flow/patch-flow-workflows-by-workflow

> Patches one of the caller's workflows: name, description, graph, or the locked flag — only the stated fields move.

`PATCH /v1/flow/workflows/{workflow}`

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|               |                                                     |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| **Address**   | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/flow/workflows/{workflow}` |
| **Method**    | `PATCH`                                             |
| **Operation** | `patch_flow_workflows_by_workflow`                  |
| **Auth**      | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`              |

Patches one of the caller's workflows: name, description,
graph, or the locked flag — only the stated fields move. Ownership is
verified before the patch reaches the product.

## Request

6 fields, body `application/json` (required).

| Field         | In   | Type    | Required | Description                                                          |
| ------------- | ---- | ------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `workflow`    | path | string  | yes      | Workflow is the workflow's UUID, taken from the path.                |
| `data`        | body | any     | —        | Data replaces the workflow graph when present, verbatim.             |
| `description` | body | string  | —        | Description replaces the description when present.                   |
| `locked`      | body | boolean | —        | Locked freezes or unfreezes the workflow against edits when present. |
| `name`        | body | string  | —        | Name renames the workflow when present.                              |
| `workflow`    | body | string  | —        | Workflow is the workflow's UUID, taken from the path.                |

## Response

| Status    | Body            | Meaning |
| --------- | --------------- | ------- |
| `200`     |                 | ok      |
| `default` | problem-details | refused |

`200` body — 1 field.

| Field    | In   | Type | Always | Description |
| -------- | ---- | ---- | ------ | ----------- |
| `(body)` | body | any  | yes    |             |

Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors).

## Examples

**CLI**

```bash
hanzo flow workflows update <workflow>
```

**SDK**

**.ts**

```ts
import { Configuration, FlowApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new FlowApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.patchFlowWorkflowsByWorkflow({ workflow: 'workflow', data: "<data>", description: "<description>" });
```

**.py**

```python
from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import FlowApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = FlowApi(client).patch_flow_workflows_by_workflow(workflow='workflow', data="<data>", description="<description>")
```

**.go**

```go
cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.FlowAPI.PatchFlowWorkflowsByWorkflow(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}
```

**.rs**

```rust
use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, flow_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = flow_api::patch_flow_workflows_by_workflow(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;
```

**.java**

```java
import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.FlowApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new FlowApi(client).patchFlowWorkflowsByWorkflow();
```

**HTTP**

```bash
curl -X PATCH https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/flow/workflows/<workflow> \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "data": "<data>",
       "description": "<description>"
     }'
```

**MCP**

MCP reaches **flow** through the `flow` tool, which names its 8 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_flow_runs"
         }
       }
     }'
```

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