---
title: "Edit your own comment"
description: "Only your own, refused on the server rather than hidden in the interface."
canonical: "https://gtable.app/docs/app-api/comments/update"
updated: "2026-10-05"
---

# Edit your own comment

`PATCH https://your-suite.gtable.app/your-app/v1/comments/{commentId}`

Only your own, refused on the server rather than hidden in the interface.

> **Note: Generic contract**
>
> Your own version of this operation, with your tables and the fields you can read, is in
> your app's document: `https://{suite}.gtable.app/{app}/v1/openapi.json`, behind your credential.
> [Why each person gets their own](/docs/start/studio-and-runtime#why-an-app-has-an-api-of-its-own).

The comment is marked as edited.

Requires the `records:write` scope. Operation `comments.update`. MCP tool `comments_update`. CLI, once published: `gtable comments update`.

## Path parameters

| Name        | Type   | Required | Description |
| ----------- | ------ | -------- | ----------- |
| `commentId` | string | yes      |             |

## Headers

| Name              | Type   | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ----------------- | ------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `Idempotency-Key` | string | no       | Any unique string. Sending the same key with the same request again returns the first response (marked `Idempotency-Replayed: true`) instead of running it twice. Reusing it for a different request is refused with 409. Kept for 24 hours. Up to 255 characters. |

## Request body

| Field      | Type      | Required | Description            |
| ---------- | --------- | -------- | ---------------------- |
| `text`     | string    | yes      | Up to 4000 characters. |
| `mentions` | string\[] | no       | Up to 20 items.        |