---
title: "Update a persona"
method: PATCH
path: "/projects/{projectId}/personas/{personaId}"
tags: ["Swarms"]
---

# Update a persona

`PATCH /projects/{projectId}/personas/{personaId}`

Partial update. Journeys reference the persona by id, so renaming one does not disturb anything pointing at it.

## Request body

- PersonaUpdateRequest — At least one field is required — an empty patch is a 400 rather than a silent no-op.
  - `name` string — 1–120 characters.
  - `role` string — What this person is, in the product's terms — "finance ops lead", "first-time buyer". 1–120 characters.
  - `notes` string — Free-text context the model is grounded in. Up to 2000 characters.
  - `avatarShape` integer — Index into the app's fixed shape set. Out of range is a 400 naming the field, not an upstream error about a constant you have never seen.
  - `avatarPalette` integer — Index into the app's fixed palette set.

## Response `200`

The updated persona.

- Persona — A reusable synthetic character. The GOAL lives on the journey, not here — one persona can be pointed at many different tasks.
  - `id` string, required — Durable id — what journeys reference and what every route here addresses.
  - `projectId` string, required
  - `slug` string, required — Stable slug key, shared with exported session data. Useful for correlating transcripts; NOT an address for this API.
  - `name` string, required
  - `role` string, required
  - `notes` string, nullable, required
  - `source` 'manual' | 'generated' | 'cluster', required — How the persona came to exist.
  - `seedKeywords` string[] — Present on cluster-derived personas: the terms the cluster was built from.
  - `avatar` object, required — Look, as indices into the app's fixed shape/palette sets. `null` when unset — the app then derives one from the id.
    - `shape` integer, nullable, required
    - `palette` integer, nullable, required
  - `createdAt` number, required — Epoch milliseconds.
  - `updatedAt` number, required — Epoch milliseconds.

## Other responses

- `400` — Malformed body or parameters.
- `401` — Missing, invalid, revoked, or orphaned key (`UNAUTHORIZED`) — or the **target MCP server** needs an OAuth grant (`OAUTH_REQUIRED`), which is a property of the server, not your key.
- `403` — Key is valid but not allowed to do this.
- `404` — Unknown project, server, or resource.
- `429` — Per-key rate limit exceeded (60 requests/minute sustained, bursts up to 10). Honor `Retry-After` and back off with jitter.
- `500` — Something failed on MCPJam's side.

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