Update a routing rule
Changes the conditions, the provider or the position. Sending position moves the rule and renumbers the others.
Authentication
A secret key (rl_sk_test_..., rl_sk_live_...) or a restricted key with limited scopes (rl_rk_test_..., rl_rk_live_...). A restricted key can carry agent: true and an expires_at, and is what a coding agent should hold. Keys end in a checksum so secret scanners can recognize them. People create, roll and revoke keys in the dashboard; GET /v1/api_keys lists them, masked.
Path parameters
The routing rule ID (rr_...).
Headers
Send true to see what the write would do without doing it. The response is the normal body with dry_run: true, changes (path, before, after), warnings and errors added, and nothing is stored. Validation runs as it would for a real write. The request is kept in request logs, tagged Dry run. When the same change is then made for real, its audit event has dry_run_preceded: true.
Request
Response
Who made a change. Runledger fills it in from the credential, so a client can’t claim to be someone else: an API key always acts as itself, the dashboard calls the API as the signed-in person, and the MCP server passes the client’s name and the person it acts for. A request that sends a Runledger-Actor header is refused with 400 parameter_unknown.