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# modus context custom-items update

> Update a custom context item.

Update a custom context item.

## Usage

```bash theme={null}
modus context custom-items update [flags]
```

## Arguments

| Name  |          | Description              |
| ----- | -------- | ------------------------ |
| `uid` | required | Custom context item uid. |

## Flags

| Flag            | Type   | Description                                                        |
| --------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `--name`        | string | Display name.                                                      |
| `--description` | string | Description.                                                       |
| `--entity-type` | string | Entity type (kind=entity).                                         |
| `--url`         | string | Source URL.                                                        |
| `--topic`       | string | Topic tag (repeatable, replaces the full set).                     |
| `--file`        | string | Path to a JSON file with update fields (e.g. content, attributes). |
| `--body`        | string | Read update fields as JSON from stdin ('-').                       |

Global: `--pretty` — human-readable table output instead of compact JSON.

See [CLI quickstart](/guides/cli) for install and auth.