edit_role

Edit an existing role’s name, color, hoist, or mentionable status. This is a DESTRUCTIVE action that follows the requester action tier and approval mode. Use only when explicitly asked to edit a role. At least one of name, color, hoist, or mentionable must be provided.

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Contract

Effect: destructive. Evidence role: discovery_only.

Edit an existing role in the guild. Destructive — follows the requester action tier and approval mode.

Parameters

This is the current provider-facing JSON Schema, generated from the runtime definition.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "role_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The role ID to edit (from get_role_info or list_roles)."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional: new name for the role."
    },
    "color": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional: new hex color (e.g. '#00FF00'). Use '#000000' to remove color."
    },
    "hoist": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "true",
        "false"
      ],
      "description": "Optional: whether to display the role separately in the sidebar."
    },
    "mentionable": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "true",
        "false"
      ],
      "description": "Optional: whether anyone can @mention this role."
    },
    "reason": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional: reason for editing the role (audit log)."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "role_id"
  ]
}

Execution requirements

• actor_grant
• guild context should exist
• role must exist

Expected postconditions

• edits the role properties