Update a policy

curl --request PATCH \
  --url https://api.telnyx.com/v2/agent_gateways/{instance_id}/policies/{name} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "description": "Baseline plus a word check"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/agent_gateways/{instance_id}/policies/{name}"

payload = { "description": "Baseline plus a word check" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'PATCH',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({description: 'Baseline plus a word check'})
};

fetch('https://api.telnyx.com/v2/agent_gateways/{instance_id}/policies/{name}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/agent_gateways/{instance_id}/policies/{name}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PATCH",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'description' => 'Baseline plus a word check'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/agent_gateways/{instance_id}/policies/{name}"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"description\": \"Baseline plus a word check\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("https://api.telnyx.com/v2/agent_gateways/{instance_id}/policies/{name}")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"description\": \"Baseline plus a word check\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.telnyx.com/v2/agent_gateways/{instance_id}/policies/{name}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"description\": \"Baseline plus a word check\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "name": "strict",
    "description": "Baseline plus a word check",
    "base": "baseline",
    "guardrails": {
      "add": [
        "no-forbidden"
      ],
      "remove": []
    },
    "model": "GLM-5.3.*",
    "pipeline": null,
    "created_at": "2026-11-02T12:58:55.140000Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-11-02T12:58:55.178000Z"
  }
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10009",
      "title": "Authentication failed",
      "detail": "The required authentication headers were either invalid or not included in the request.",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/overview/errors/10009"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10005",
      "title": "Resource not found",
      "detail": "The requested resource or URL could not be found.",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/overview/errors/10005"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10027",
      "title": "Unprocessable Entity",
      "detail": "Extra inputs are not permitted",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/overview/errors/10027"
      },
      "source": {
        "pointer": "/name"
      }
    }
  ]
}